Sneak Peek: Revisiting Theresa Secord Podcast

Jo Reed: Why do you think a new generation has been inspired to learn traditional arts in culture?

Theresa Secord: Well I think it's like really a way for people to still assert their sovereignty and a connection with their cultural heritage. In terms of material aspects of the Wabanaki culture, we were well known and long known for our basketry. Certainly, those of us who weave fairly proficiently today, we're not the first. You know, we can look in the historic record and see these amazing baskets that our ancestors wove, 100, 200 years ago and so I think you know, that our kids and our grandkids really want to be a part of that longstanding heritage and they're proud of that tradition. They want to belong to this cultural movement and of course that as well has to do with protecting the environment and I don't know, I think for us as weavers, that helps make us quintessential Wabanaki.