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Find Healing Through Sewing Regalia
As a daughter of a 60’s Scoop survivor, our shared trauma threatened to permanently cut us off from participating in our culture. Making, wearing and dancing in Regalia has been a powerful part of my healing journey. Reconnecting to my culture through sewing and dance has brought me and my family back to community to the life I was always meant to live.
I want you to experience this healing too.
Make your own Regalia
Choose your level of support.
1. Order a sewing pattern with workbook to complete your regalia on your own at your own pace.
2. Purchase access to Deanne's Virtual Jingle Dress Course that has 14 hours of video instruction on how to complete a Jingle Dress.
3. Hire Deanne to come to your organization or community to teach private sewing lessons.
Colonialism has taken so much from us. Let's take back our history. It's time to heal.
What is Regalia?
Regalia is the name for the clothing that we as Indigenous people wear to important events and ceremonial gatherings, especially powwows.
Regalia is not a costume. It is living art we wear to honour and practice our culture. It's traditional and sacred because each one tells a story – our individual stories, our ancestral stories, our community's stories and our culture's stories.
How Will you Personalize your Regalia?
1
Show your Nation
Regalia shows the world the Nation you come from. Design your Regalia based off designs to represent your Nationhood.
2
Add your own Story
Every regalia is unique. Add your own story into your Regalia. Honour your uniqueness.
3
Done not Perfect
You do not need to have a perfect Regalia to dance. It is a process. Be gentle with yourself.
Making your own Regalia means you'll have traditional skills that you can pass on to our next generation.
What if the next generation of Indigenous children were connected to their culture from the start? When your cultural revival begins, it will continue on with them.