We Are Our Ancestry documents stages in my process, both painful and celebratory, of coming to understand my familial, cultural, and historical ancestral inheritances. What does it mean to be a contemporary Métis woman who is beginning the process of reconnecting to her lost culture? This body of work tells a story that starts with my responses to learnings of events, both historical and recent, that are part of my DNA. I am intrigued with the influence of ancestral forces in our lives, in particular those of which we are often unaware. The exhibition ends with a celebration of a cultural practice that was ubiquitous in my grandmother’s life, lost to my mother’s life, and but now re-discovered in my life; a practice that, in its process, reconnects me to my ancestors and blesses me with a deep feeling of peace and contentment.