I want to help you connect and display your Mi’kmaq Pride in your home or work place. Mi’kmaq Wooden Art is 100% owned and operated by a Mi’kmaw woman who specializes in building quality handmade wooden Mi’kmaq Stars. Lana Thomas is a First Nations Mi'kmaq / Irish woman, born and raised in rural Ottawa, Ontario and a member of the Eel Ground ~Natoaganeg~ First Nation in northeastern New Brunswick. She began woodworking, alongside her father, and designing Mi’kmaq wooden stars in 2017. What started out as a weekend wood art project has blossomed into a small business that allows her to share her love and passion of woodworking and Mi’kmaq pride. In 2003, during a family trip down east to visit family she visited Lennox Island First Nation (ancestral roots) where she fell in love with a piece of pottery with a Mi’kmaq Star carved into it. Since that trip she was fuelled by a passion and a desire to incorporate that star in her life and her home. She felt an instant connection and was driven to learn more. It would take 15 years later for her to take that passion and design and build her first Mi’kmaq Star. She is committed to creating quality handmade wooden art and is the only creator of this unique wooden version of the Mi’kmaq Star.
