[4] Whiskeyjack received her doctorate in 2017 from University nuhelotʼįne thaiyotsʼį nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills, a former Canadian Indian residential school attended by her mother and grandmother that is now the first educational institution in Canada to be run by Indigenous peoples.

[3] Whiskeyjack's work reflects on the experience of being a Cree woman in a Western world, and the "reclaiming, re-gathering, and remembering" of their ancestral power.

[6] The installation included Whiskeyjack's multimedia project Lost My Talk and MacKenzie's 37-minute[7] documentary film about the artistic process of creating the work.

[8] Lost My Talk is a triptych piece, and the film focuses on Whiskeyjack's work on the middle section, a mixed media sculpture of her uncle's face.

[10] The artwork, a beaded medallion crafted with deer lace and rabbit fur titled Three Generations of nitêh (my heart), was at the gallery as part of Ociciwan's grand opening exhibition at their new space, which has been delayed due to COVID-19.