
About
Hadassah GreenSky Meshekey is a queer Traverse Bay Bands Odawa, Fond Du Lac Ojibwe, and Bodewademi artist, musician, cultural worker and land steward. They are turtle and bear clan. Hadassah lives in Detroit, otherwise known as Waawiyaatanong, Where The Curved Shores Meet. They are a 2022 KresgeArts Fellow. As an organizer, they have collaborated and partnered with the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, The College for Creative Studies, The Detroit Historical Society, Fort Wayne Historical, Sundance Film Institute, and has been featured in Vogue, AJ+, The Washington Post, CBS, Metro Times, Planet Detroit and more. They are the co-founder of Vibes With The Tribes, Michigan's first Native American music festival, founder of The Waawiyaatanong NDN Market, a Native arts market, and founder of The Flicker Exchange, an arts and culture exchange between The West Coast, East Coast and Great Lakes. They are currently stewarding land in partnership with Arboretum Detroit in Detroit's first Land Back project called Noojimo'waning: A Place for Healing. They are currently working on a documentary entitled "The Red Ghetto Project", about the Native community in the Cass Corridor neighborhood of Detroit
Press
Vogue Magazine- Over the Fourth of July, These Indigenous Women Healed Colonized Spaces
Detroit MetroTimes- Artist Hadassah GreenSky keeps Anishinaabe traditions alive in Detroit
California: The Press Democrat- Sonoma County Debuts new card by Forestville Indigenous artist
First Nations Development Institute: Artist Feature
Public Parking Publication- Black Lives Matter is an Indigenous issue too
NPR: Stateside Stateside Podcast: How artist Hadassah GreenSky honors her culture in Detroit
BridgeDetroit: In solidarity: Indigenous communities join Detroit’s Black Lives Matter movement
Planet Detroit: It's All Waawiyaatanong
Written by Hadassah GreenSky:
The Nation: Big Oil in the Mackinac Straits Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen
Planet Detroit: Voices: The story of Noojimo’waning, the Indigenous Land Back project in Poletown