Cherokee Basket Weaving

Over the summer, I had the chance to learn several basket weaving techniques, including Cherokee double wall basket weaving and ways to shape woven structures. Taught by Cherokee artists, I’m now teaching basket weaving interwoven with human rights and Indigenous education, using weaving as a relational practice that connects baskets to justice and as a way to teach about Cherokee and Indigenous kinship beyond the reservation.

I’ve been fortunate to connect with Indigenous communities around the world, and I’m deeply honored to sit in kinship, sharing the stories that they have gifted to bring us in greater relation to our world.

Through weaving, I share culture and help move beyond our community space, offering next steps beyond a Land Acknowledgement and inviting deeper responsibility, relationship, and connection. Reflecting on frameworks such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, I consider the ways my own familial lineages have taught me about food, gardening, and kinship. In each class, these teachings shape how we can weave together our shared humanity.