Red River Métis Artisans
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Jesse Bandura
Jesse Bandura is a Métis singer-songwriter born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Bandura infuses his love of country and rock into his music. Jesse got his first guitar at age nine and has honed his craft playing live, touring from Northwestern Ontario through Western Canada and the Yukon, playing bars, clubs, and many local festivals, over the…
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Jesse McLeod
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Jessica Steer
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Jessica Wittick
In 2020, during a lockdown, I started a dried floral business over Instagram, where I would make floral arrangements for homes, etc. That took off and went really well for a couple of years, but when that trend started to die down and I was seeing my sales plummet, I pivoted my business into women’s…
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Jessie Pruden
Bead ‘n Butter is owned by Jessie Pruden, a queer, colourful Métis woman from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Beading runs in her family and when Jessie picked up the needle and thread for the first time, it felt like home. She is inspired by her family, friends, fashion, nature and the spirit of our Indigenous community. Putting…
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JOAN CHURCH
Joan has been beading since the early 80’s and decided that she prefers the peyote stitch to other stitching due to the versatility of the stitch. She watched her grandmother bead when she was a child and it intrigued her but she never had the opportunity to learn. Then in the early 80’s her local…
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Joanne Pagee
I started making jewelry in 2010. I happened to walk by a store in a strip mall and the name caught my attention. So one day I decided to drop in and the lady who owned the store was very welcoming and we started to chat. She was looking for some help to run the cash…
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Jodi Brown
Jodi wears many different hats on any given day. She is a wife, a surrogate auntie, a daughter, a sister, a member of the Tuckett family fiddler band, a baker and a student. After many years of working in the social services and addictions field she left the workforce to attain her bachelor’s of social…
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