Something Cold and Hard Like Winter

Artist Shelley Niro is from both New York (born in Niagara Falls) and Ontario (Six Nations Reserve), so her art crosses national borders Awareness of Indigenous art growing as more news comes out about residential school experience Essay by Alicia Elliott, bestselling author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground. Also from Six Nations but born in the US. Elliott's essay provides commentary on the cover image of the Buffalo Nickel, which was a composite image created by a white man to commemorate what he considered to be the dying Indians he observed growing up, along with the dying buffalo: a design he himself referred to as “truly American.” Niro's art juxtaposes these images of colonialism with grounding images of nature