Kelly Jean Church is a black ash basket maker, Woodlands style painter, birchbark biter, and educator.
Church in 2023
Church's black ash baby basket with sweetgrass turtle charm
The Odawa are an Indigenous American people who primarily inhabit land in the Eastern Woodlands region, now in jurisdictions of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. Their territory long preceded the creation of the current border between the two countries in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Odawa group areas.
Mid-18th century sketch of an Odawa family by British soldier George Townshend.
Odawa warrior with gunstock war club.
Seal of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.