anqati təmtəm tənas siyaxus na nim. Her traditional name translates to old soul young eyes, and her American name is Stephanie Craig. Stephanie’s Mother’s maternal people are Santiam and Yoncalla Kalapuya, Takelma Rogue River, and Cow Creek Umpqua tribes from southern Oregon and the Willamette Valley. Stephanie’s maternal Grandmother’s paternal people were Wakanasisi Lower Chinook, Clackamas Chinook, Wasco, Chehalis, Mohawk and Metis from northwestern and Columbia River Plateau in Oregon, western Washington and Canada. Stephanie’s Father’s people are bostons, or American.

She’s a 7th generation traditional basket weaver, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and lifeways practitioner, culture keeper and bearer. She uses TEK methods, ancestral knowledge, archaeological methods and traditional plant fibers to create, revive and awaken centuries old art and way of life, basketry. Her 3rd and 4th great Grandmothers were renowned master basket weavers. Stephanie is inspired by them and other weavers; even though they were forced from their way of life into an unknown colonized new world, they continued their traditional lifeways that the settlers purchased as collectible art. Stephanie’s motivation comes from her children, her Tribe and her community.

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website: kalapuyaweaving.com