Butterfly Dreams Throw Blanket Summer2 Designed by Kandi McGilton (Ts’msyen/Tsimshian)

Designed by Kandi McGilton (Ts’msyen/Tsimshian)

and the value to lead with your heart is one that I always want to be reminded of

The swirl pattern is seen throughout nature: in water

or gift to your favorite dance partner or a person going through their own season of transition

Butterfly Dreams Throw Blanket Summer2 Designed by Kandi McGilton (Ts’msyen/Tsimshian)For the Blackfeet, the butterfly is the bringer of good dreams. You will often find butterflies on painted tipis and in the beadwork of Blackfeet people. Blackfeet Piikani artist and Inspired Natives Collaborator John Isaiah Pepion drew inspiration from the butterfly designs that flit across the rawhide parfleche designs of the Plains Indians. Traditional parfleche are beautifully embellished rawhide containers, decorated by painting, incising, or