Writing

Red Giveaway: Linking Butterflies and All My Relations
Cheryl L'Hirondelle
2007

I spend countless hours a day online and in front of a couple of computer monitors. Whether at home or on the road, I'm always connected and looking for something personal, meaningful, and transcendent from this daily repetitive interaction...

Caricature < = > Chaos: Buffalo Boy's Colonial Blues
Cheryl L'Hirondelle
2014

If chaos is a “behavior so unpredictable as to appear random owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions,” ii then my recent sighting of Buffalo Boy in downtown Sault Ste Marie was such a phenomenon...

Codetalkers Recounting Signals of Survival
Cheryl L'Hirondelle
2014

Following the 1994 international Indigenous think tank at the Banff Centre for the Arts entitled Drumbeats to Drumbytes, the late Ahasiw Maskgon-Iskwew noted: “To govern ourselves means to govern our stories and our ways of telling stories...

Sounding the Border:
Echoes and Transmissions from the Morley Reserve - a conversation
Janna Graham in conversation with Cheryl L'Hirondelle and Candice Hopkins about piracy, performance, community process and autonomy

It is a cold but sunny March afternoon and artist Cheryl L'Hirondelle is on the side of the TransCanada highway on the Morley Reserve between Banff and Calgary...

Reclaiming Identity: A State of Dignity - an Installation by Celina Ritter
Cheryl L'Hirondelle
2008

For many Aboriginals in North America, the year 1992 marked a victory celebration to our continued survival in light of 500 years of colonization...

CREE++
From Critical Making, edited by Garnet Hertz, UCLA-Irvine Campus publishers, Los Angeles, CA., USA

For many Aboriginals in North America, the year 1992 marked a victory celebration to our continued survival in light of 500 years of colonization...