Richelle Bear Hat

Staff & Board Category: Community Investment & Impact

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Richelle Bear Hat

Grant Program Specialist

Richelle Bear Hat (she/her) is a Blackfoot/Dane-zaa Cree artist and a member of Siksika Nation. Over the years she has worked at artist-run centres and arts organizations developing engagement and programming. Previously she was at the National accessArts Centre as Coordinator of Indigenous Programs. Bear Hat is interested in the many ways knowledge can be exchanged within family mentorships and in return translated and honoured. Video, text, sound and paper-based works are the materials she uses as a platform for storytelling. 

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Our Commitment to Equity

Our commitment to Indigenous reconciliation, racial equity, disability justice, and gender and sexual diversity.

We acknowledge that the land we gather on, Mohkinsstsis, is the ancestral territory of the Siksikaitsitapi — the Blackfoot people — comprising the Siksika, Kainai and Piikani Nations, as well as Treaty 7 signatories, the Tsuut’ina Nation and the Îyârhe Nakoda Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney First Nations. Today this land is home to the Otipemisiwak Métis Government Districts 5 and 6 as well as many First Nations and Inuit from across Turtle Island.

We acknowledge that there has been art, music, dance, storytelling and ceremony on this land since time immemorial and it is in the spirit of this land and its people that we do our work.

Please see our full Commitment to Equity, including the sections on our aspirations, accountability, current initiatives and EDIA history.