Potlatch People Mildred Valley Thornton JOURNAL delighting astronauts at the International

delighting astronauts at the International Space Station four times (in 1996

the first in a trilogy

and most importantly

TASHA SPILLETT-SUMNER is an Inninewak (Cree) and Trinidadian award-winning poet and author who is also working on her doctoral degree in Indigenous land–based education

This is a story about trust between parents and children and the importance of being true to oneself

Potlatch People Mildred Valley Thornton JOURNAL delighting astronauts at the InternationalBorn of a large farming family in the small Ontario town of Dresden at the end of the nineteenth century, the young Mildred Stinson soon demonstrated to her parents that she was not destined to remain on the farm. They recognized her artistic abilities and sent her to study at Olivet College in Michigan, from which she graduated in 1910. She continued her studies at the Ontario School of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago before the lure of Canada's