She grew up ashamed of being an Indian — now, Carol Morin is celebrating her ancestry through her art.
Morin has opened her first show. Her work is on display at the cultural centre in Regina Beach all month.
Her art depicts her life and the lives of so many other First Nations people. She was adopted into a white family as a baby, and always struggled with her identity.
Morin says her family was loving and kind, and she wanted to be just like them:
“There was this scrub brush. And I was scrubbing, scrubbing, scrubbing, scrubbing so hard that my skin started to bleed because I was trying to wash off the brown, because everyone in my family was white.”
Morin spent 30 years as a television and radio broadcast journalist. Now, she says she is doing what she always wanted.
Her next big project is a book based loosely on her life. It is at a publisher right now waiting for approval.