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Gaa’miinigoowiziyang “The Good We Were Given” is a community mural led by Heart Berry’s Giizh Agaton Howes.  

We love to do the unexpected at Heart Berry. Our Native Land Scarf collaboration is truly in the spirit of creating collaborations no one saw coming to benefit the good work.  With our friends at the MN Wonderwall we have been able to do a series of collaborations! Two tifos, an award winning design, a record breaking shirt fundraiser, and donated over $15,000 to Wakan Tipi and Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition.  We believe in bringing our art to the world and sharing how it can tell our stories, while centering Native narratives. We believe our art loves us and brings good.  Our most recent collaboration is the Native Land Scarf. Scarves are an integral part of Major League Soccer,...

What fun and a huge honor! Heart Berry has been nominated "BEST OF THE BEST"  Best Gift shop Best Boutique And!!! our artist and creator nominated for Best Local Artist! Huge Miigwech to the folks who nominated us!  We do our best at Heart Berry to do business according to our Anishinaabeg values!  Working within the teachings we have and our hearts out front!  Giving back Creating beauty Revitalizing culture Sharing Ojibwe art with the world  *On a personal note from me, Giizh, I am often running this business on my gut. What feels right. What sits good with my heart. What I wish existed in the world. And what is beautiful to me. These nominations make my heart so...

How Native businesses can and are doing it our way The message around business is so often "competition competition competition" which drives a lot of Native aspiring business owners and dreamers away.  Because we come from a value system that prioritizes the whole over the individual this tension can prove too hard to bear. The notion of competition is built on a scarcity mindset and when we come from communities that suffer the greatest scarcity, this can feel daunting.  Collaboration comes from an abundance mindset and says "we all do better when we all do better." As tribal people, it is oppositional to our way to see others as our competition, our enemy, and where we are trying to always run...

In our ongoing series of Tools for Makers, we are sharing step 3 of 9-- BEADING. This tutorial covers one needle applique beading.  For more tutorials check out our YouTube and blogs.  We are using our Nookomis Obagijigan Pattern book for these moccasins! Happy Making!