Kewoy Keech Reeek Initiative
(Our Burden Basket Is Full)

The Kewoy Keech Reeek Initiative is a multi-year project designed to create, house, and offer resources for regalia and other materials required to carry on cultural traditions, demonstrations and cultural arts. Regalia pieces connect people in physical, spiritual and social ways to the past, present and future.  This initiative is an opportunity to contribute to ongoing lessons of reciprocity and respect that are a part of Native cultural traditions. 

For our inaugural project under this initiative we are focused on teaching and making regalia items for use in women’s coming-of-age ceremonies through a series of workshops called Cho’ho-kuem’! (Let’s Make It!)

Projects

We Are Dancing For You Book Project

Woven With Our Roots Retreat

funded by the Seventh Generation Fund & Lois Risling/Steve Baldy

Northwest Coast Regalia Stories Project

with support from Cal-Humanities a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Uneasy Remains Film Project

Arts, Voices, Perspectives Media Project

funded by the Seventh Generation Fund

Flower Dance Demonstrations

Stories of the River Exhibit

Community Support Projects

  • NAS 331: Indigenous Natural Resources Management Practices Food Sovereignty Day (Humboldt State University)
  • California Indian Conference (Humboldt State University)
  • DOUK (Independent Film Project)

Cultural Revitalization

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