drawing from her Tlingit culture

In this place

and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people

grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained by Franz Boas at Columbia University

She is joined by a chorus of women and girls in red dresses

Drum from the Heart reconciliation drawing from her Tlingit cultureWhen he is gifted a handmade drum by his mother, Ren learns the teachings of the drum that she also passes down to him. Ren discovers that through this special drum, he is able to connect to his culture and find confidence in his voice to joyfully share in singing the traditional songs of his Nuu chah nulth Nation.