is a grassroot organization with a growing team of researchers, community builders, community members, allies, and healers. We are honored to benefit from the advice of Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge experts and leaders in the space of truth-telling, reconciliation, and reconnection.
Skye Louis White “The Creative Man” Co-designer of website logo and illustrator. Skye is named after his grandfather Louis John White. He loves dinosaurs, godzilla, and he likes to cook. He plays piano, participates in theater and appeared in the Canadian mini-series Pour Tois Flora (NISH Media, Radio Canada), a story about Indian Residential Schooling in Canada.
Louellyn is Kanien’keha:ka from Akwesasne on her father’s (Louis J. White) side, and European on her mother’s side (Eleanor R. Currie). She grew up in the traditional homelands of the Mohawk Valley of central NY and now resides in the northern territory of Tsiotsia:ke (Montreal) with her son, Skye, where she is an Associate Professor of Indigenous studies at Concordia Univ. She enjoys painting, crafts, and making memories with her boy.
Daniella was a settler in Mexico where she was born. She was raised in Canada where she moved to as a young child. She shares a home with her husband and two children. She has collaborated in Kahnawa:ke, alongside Mohawk women who are invested in protecting their rights over the education of their children. Her PhD work reflects on this collaboration and has led her to work alongside Louellyn since 2019. Supporting her life’s long work is a central commitment. When she is not working on Shaking the Clouds, she enjoys learning to be a home-maker alongside her children. Cooking, managing the home, and raising her children counter-culturally is her passion and way of mothering with love and care.
Yasmin is an archival researcher that specializes in the history of the operation of the Department of Indian Affairs in the post Confederation period. She has done extensive research on the bureaucratic changes of the Department and the way in which Indian agents operated on Indian reserves across Canada. Yasmin has focused her research in the last 5 years on the Residential School system and was a researchers in the NCTR’s Missing Children Project Phase 3, which researched Residential Schools across Canada and identified missing children. Today, Yasmin is the Lead Researcher for Lax Kw’alaams Band Residential Schools and Indian Hospitals project.