Niquita Lynne Thomas

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sgę́:nǫˀ- Hello! My name is Niquita, you can all call me Nikki! I am a Lower Cayuga woman from Six Nations of Grand River.I was born and raised in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

I have currently just finished studying indigenous community service work so I can use indigenous teachings and knowledge to incorporate with healing tactics in the social service world.

I enjoy beading, painting, wood burning, and taxidermy, I love being able to incorporate natural products from animals and the earth into my craft work, I have a strong passion for creating authentic art using products from Mother Earth such as: rawhide,birch bark, quills from porcupines, natural brain tanned smoked hide and leathers, furs,claws,teeth, bones, and foraging for other materials I can use that is available outdoors and using vintage materials from 1890-1930 circa era and being outdoors on the land in general I love hunting, fishing, trapping and learning the ways of indigenous heritage and culture through my family and cultural knowledge and teachings, protocols and values.

Currently I have graduated from the Canadian Roots Indigenous youth policy School as a student who is working on a capstone project working to develop a policy regarding the issues indigenous women and girls are faced with in Canada also known as the MMIWG crisis and how it affects Indigenous peoples and all the aspects that contributes towards it.

I work part-time with Balance Art Studios to create Taxidermy Bone Art and produce intricate conservation pieces that unlike any others found in the world.