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Daphne Odjig
painter, printmaker (serigraph)
Canadian-Odawa, (1919–2016) Daphne Odjig was born and raised on the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island (Lake Huron), Ontario. She was the daughter of Dominic Odjig and Joyce Peachey. Her father and her grandfather, Chief Jonas Odjig, were Potawatomi, descended from the great chief Black Partridge. Her mother was an English war bride. The Odjig family was among the Potawatomi who migrated north and settled in Wikwemikong after the War of 1812. The Potawatomi (Keepers of the Fire) were members with the Ojibwa and Odawa, of the Three Fires Confederacy of the Great Lakes.
Daphne Odjig was one of the most highly respected artists of her time. She was awarded the Order of Canada in 1986, an Aboriginal Achievement Award in 1998 and the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts in 2007. She was also the recipient of seven honorary degrees. Together with six of her peers, Odjig founded the Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporation. The group is perhaps more commonly known as “The Indian Group of Seven”. Together they propelled Indigenous art out of the realm of ethnography and gift shop kitsch and into its proper place in the mainstream of Canadian art. Odjig was born and raised on the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island (Lake Huron), Ontario. Her father was Ojibwa-Odawa and her mother was English. The artistic tradition was strong in the Odjig family (both her father and grandfather were artists). She was particularly close to her grandfather Chief Jonas Odjig, an accomplished stone carver, who supported her interest in art from a young age and encouraged her to draw. His influence, and that of her parents, was foundational in her practice.