Nasunikejk (elmitukwik)

She flows(runs) home to the place of tall reeds. Ki’kwesu’skul, muskrat root or sweet flag is a rhizomatic medicinal wetland plant featuring tall grassy reeds that extend from the water. Nasunikejk embraces sensations of both hope and grief surrounding habitat restoration and the complex relationship between expropriated unceded territories that hold matrilineal and ancestral histories. Fantasy, dream and prayer stitches together a sacred landscape, touched by care and wisdom of the elders’ hands who tend to the lodges of the living. Nasunikejk is the place name for Queensport, Guysborough County, that features a harbour that overlooks one of the coastal lines where the first ships sailed across the Atlantic to Canada, featured in ancient L’nu petroglyphs that notified community of the arrival of an unknown civilization. Sweet flag spreads rhizomatically creating thick beds of root mass preventing erosion bridging the water world and earth worlds through their contractual union.