03/02/2024
I just want to say thank you to those who've been here since I started creating art part time over 15 years ago. Without each of you testing my skills, I wouldn't be where I am today ❤️🤞🏼🫶🏼
I also want introduce myself by saying hello and thank you to my new followers and potential customers. I appreciate the love and support for my work, especially within the past couple of years.
My name is Alyss Mountain. I am from the closed reservation known as the Red Lake Nation in Minnesota. I am Ojibwe, Dakota and Japanese. I am a single mom of two. I am very shy, naturally have RBF, so I seem closed off but truly wish to create a more supportive network of friends. I have ADHD, anxiety, depression and PTSD. I believe in mental health wellness and have worked as a cultural arts teacher, an advocate for those who experienced DV or SA, a youth intervention specialist for recidivism reduction and a su***de prevention specialist.
I have my degree in Law Enforcement and am completing my degree in Psychology with an emphasis in indigenous studies. My dream is to help use art and digital technology to help create content for learning materials in our indigenous languages and to also be an art therapist but with cultural arts as my foundation.
To my family I'm known as Abby, Abscadab, Abaneezer Scrooge or Auntie momo, to my lodge family I am known as Anaakwadikwe or Waabanaangikwe. To you guys I am Miskwadesi. My page was set up for family or community members a few years ago because I don't like giving out my personal information. We went from only 30 followers and have now grown to- 8 THOUSAND. 😨🥳
Miskwadesi is actually the name of my eldest child, who at the time was my only child for 7.5 years until her little sister came along and overthrew the monarchy. 🤣 I want to assure those of you, I'm a real person, with a real passion for art and putting my best work forward. I see your comments and messages coming in support for the recent art that was released. 90% of the things I offer are handmade. Unfortunately I don't have employees and am not a machine, though I wish I did and was. 🤣
As of today, my spirit has travelled around the sun 30 times. ❤️ I celebrated by making chocolate chip pancakes and blowing bubbles with my 3 year old who screams "thank you mom, you're the best ever". Now she and I are finishing up with packaging orders and dropping them off. I will be responding to comments and messages about orders soon. Just had a lot going on in my little world and got back home last night. I appreciate the patience and understanding.
Happy birthday to any of my birthday twins ❤️🫶🏼 my wish this year is for people in the world to find more kindness, patience, compassion and the motivation to chase their dreams. Life is too short to live without purpose and intent. I don't feel old, quite young actually. But I do feel tired. Miigwech bizindaawiyeg. (Thank you for listening)
