Hide Workshop

This workshop is intended to educate non-Indigenous people on the importance of supporting and centering Indigenous sovereignty, promote Indigenous cultural reclamation and preservation, and offer a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between food, animals, and garments. Participants will learn the Eastern Woodlands Indigenous process of "brain tanning" a deer hide through hands-on engagement with the different stages of hide tanning. While this process cannot be completed in a single day, participants will leave with their hide and the knowledge to finish the process in their own time. An important component of this workshop is community, getting to know each other, sharing questions and experiences around tanning, and what it means to be in right relationship to our animal relatives, our food and what we wear.

Source: https://www.mountgrace.org/get-involved/events/event/hide-tanning-workshop-with-andre-strongbearheart-gaines-jr