Cyn Nault (she/her/wiin)

@sacredcolours.ca

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Two Spirit Anishnaabekwe, Wolverine Clan, Français & English, Multimedia Artist ♡ Optimist ♡ Dreamer ♡ Air Protector #RevolutionOfLove #LandBack #MaskUp #RevolutionOfConsciousness 📍Anemki Wiikwedong | Thunder Bay https://linktr.ee/sacredcolours

Screenshot of AQI It says: Very High Health Risk Scale: Canada (AQHI) Air quality index is 11, which is similar to yesterday at about this time. Health Information Reduce or reschedule strenuous activities outdoors, especially if you experience symptoms such as coughing and throat irritation. At-risk populations, children, and seniors should avoid strenuous activities.
A close up photo of a leaf cutter bee hole in a sandy, gravel covered spot with some leafy plants and grass on the ground.
Video from grass level POV: a monarch caterpillar adventuring through the grass in golden hour evening light toward the camera
Photo of a green and brown Abbott’s Sphinx caterpillar curled up on a leaf.
Photo of a monarch caterpillar in J pose on the goldenrod.
Photo from slightly above my pollinator garden featuring swamp & common milkweed, yarrow, black eyed susans, asters, echinacea, blazingstar liatrises, cardinal flower, wild bergamot, and goldenrod, surrounded by grass.
Extreme close up on a swamp milkweed plant with green leaves and greenish reddish stems. There are three monarch eggs with the "blackhead" appearance, meaning those teeny tiny caterpillars are hatching imminently. There are also two teeny tiny monarch caterpillars that have hatched. One is still working on eating its egg shell.
Picture of Chrissy Isaacs standing at a microphone with some people behind holding signs that are partially offscreen. One can infer they say "Honour Treaties". There are some stylized water elements on the top right and bottom left corners. There is a big banner of text at the top that says "Mark Carney owes Grassy Narrows an apology". There is text in the bottom that says "#GrassyNarrows".
A bright and colourful painting featuring a femme presenting, light skinned person with long purple hair made of stars / the universe. She is wearing bright fuchsia glasses, with a pink flower behind an ear and a blue tank top. She is in the foreground with a huge rainbow that arcs behind her, from bottom left to top right of the image. The rainbow colours from bottom to top are: violet, blue, green, greenish-yellow, yellow, orange, red. She is inside an angular gold polygon, daysky colours inside it and nightsky colours outside of it. She is also surrounded by flowers, pollinators and sparkles. There are words and phrases within the painting. Some of the words and phrases are different levels of visible as they were added at different points; some being partially covered now by other elements. The pollinators that arc above her are from left to right: lady bug, monarch, bee, luna moth, two dragonflies.

 The art style is reminiscent of impressionism and not complete realism though there are some realistic features and the artist thinks she bears a resemblance to herself.
A raised garden bed with 6 tomato plants spread out: 2 beefsteak, 2 Manitoba and 2 Bonny Best. Centred and offset between them are 2 pepper plants: 1 ring of fire and 1 long red cayenne. There are some teeny basil plants between them in this bed and a marigold. There's a summer dance cucumber on one end and a tender green cucumber on the other end.
Painting of a brown coloured bear with tan snout, black nose and dark eyes who is surrounded by white, yellow, orange and red flowers, strawberries, blueberries, an orange, black and white monarch with wings open, another monarch looking butterfly with green, white and red colouring. The tallest, most prominent white flower in the cenre of the bear’s chest has 8 pointed petals. The whole painting is on a dark background.
Twitter Scrrenshot: Colin D'Mello | Global News & @ColinD Mello ... BREAKING: The Ford government is changing Ontario's Freedom Of Information act system, effectively gutting a tool journalists use to obtain documents related to government decision-making: - The Premier, Ministers and their offices will all be excluded from the FOl system. - This applies to all existing requests - Only civil servants can be FOl'd - The government is extending the response timeline from 30 calendar days to 45 business days.
Screenshot of an article. “BC Halts Plans to Make Polluters Pay for Cleanup Costs The province billed its Public Interest Bonding Strategy as a key step to protect the public from massive cleanup bills. Now it's on hold. Zoë Yunker Today The Tyee”
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Screenshot from a Scientific American publication: “The result was a series of nutrition experiments conducted on nearly 1,000 children in six residential schools between 1948 and 1952. These included a double-blind, randomized experiment examining of the effects of nutrition supplements on children showing clinical signs of vitamin C deficiency, with half of the students receiving placebos and the other half receiving vitamin tablets; an examination of the impact of an experimental fortified flour mixture that included ground bonemeal, among other things, at St. Mary's School in Kenora, Ontario; and an examination of the effects of both inadequate and adequate milk consumption on a population of children with clinical signs of riboflavin deficiency at the Alberni School in British Columbia.”
Photo of Cyn who has long dark brown hair over her shoulder. She’s wearing fuchsia coloured eye glasses, a black Zimi mask, black hoodie from Decolonial Clothing with the floral Land Back motif, rainbow kuffiyeh from Hirbawi, standing beside the poster she painted the says “Draw The Line for Queer Rights” in big bold letters and below in cursive says “Trans rights are human rights”. The poster also features a beautiful person whose hair has shades of carmine, pink and turquoise. Their beard is pink. They’re wearing a neon green tank top, lots of colourful ribbons around their neck and Pride coloured earrings.

In the background you can also see a poster for Migrants rights, a poster that says “What will you draw the line for?” And a small sign on the ground that says “respect existence or expect resistance”.
Photo of a mixed media poster. Lines hand drawn with a sharpie and paint to fill it in. It’s a colourful, beautiful person with hair shades of carmine, pink and turquoise. They’re wearing a lime green tank top, Pride coloured earrings and many colours of ribbons around their neck and a big smile.
Photo of Bette, the brownish-grey striped tabby cat, with yellow eyes, pink/orange nose and white chin and whiskers sitting on my notebook on my desk. Her paws curled under in semi-loaf formation. Her eyes are closing. The background has part of my computer and a yellow wall.
A large orange/yellow star shaped pumpkin flower with its green leaves and vines around it. Wooden fence in the background.
Close up photo of some pink swamp milkweed flowers with one little black, white and yellow striped monarch caterpillar in it, munching on the flowers.
Poster: Mass Death is Imminent in Gaza The people of Gaza are now facing IPC Phase 5 - the final stage of famine. Children are wasting away from severe malnutrition. Adults are suffering organ failure, brain injury, and sudden cardiac death. This is not a warning — it's happening now. Without urgent intervention, mass death is inevitable. We are talking about days - not weeks. Escalation week: * Daily protests, everywhere * Disruption, not business as usual * Relentless pressure until aid is allowed in * Global mobilization - now, not later Share this. Organize. Amplify. The world must not look away while Gaza starves.
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Video of many Indigenous Youth and other community leaders talking about the summit today. There many drummers, singers and supporters in the background video and audio. First speaker: Jeronimo Kataquapit, Attawapiskat First Nation, Bill C-5 Summit July 17, 2025 Second speaker: Gwii Lok’im Gibuu (Jesse Stoeppler), Gitxsan Nation Third speaker: Hereditary Chief Na’Moks, Wet’suwet’en Nation Fourth speaker: Ramon Kataquapit, Attiwapiskat First Nation 5th speaker: Jeronimo again 6th speaker: Gwii Lok’im Gibuu again 7th speaker: Hereditary Chief Na’Moks again 8th speaker: Jeronimo again Second to last title card: Indigenous Leaders and Youth across Canada are resisting Bill C-5. Last title card: Stand with them.
Dimly lit room with a queen sized sleigh bed, dark coloured solid wood. The bed has a quilt and a couple of pillows on it.
Photo of a light green enamel raised garden bed with 6 tomato plants with growing supports, 2 pepper plants, a bunch of garlic and herbs growing in it. Some nasturtiums and marigolds around them. There’s a handful of bee cups in it. Note: I sprinkled these clean, dried broken egg shells around the bases of my plants before doing more reading to know that it’s not actually that useful to keep pests off the plants. It will eventually break down into calcium for the garden. It must be a coincidence that I have only seen 1 little pest? I almost don’t want to mention it haha. Background has another raised bed, a wooden fence and grass.
Picture of 7 youth sitting on rocks with some plants around them. Text overlayed says “Breaking! 

Victory! The Ontario Court of Appeal sides with youth in historic climate case against Ontario” The image has ecojustice’s logo in the top right. 

It has a purple, rectangular border.
Infographic from IISD

 Text above the graph says “Expanding Canadian oil and gas production could reduce the value of the industry.” Value of the industry noted on the chart in $USD billions between 2025 and 2040 range is from -100 to 500 billion. 
 The graph shows the change in value of the Canadas fossil fuel industry under three climate scenarios. For each scenario, a value is listed for if the industry stops new fuels, and if it continues to expand oil and gas fields. For the STEPS scenario, the industry would be worth just over $400 billion USD if its stops producing new fields, but under $400 billion USD if it continues. Under the APS scenario, the industry value would drop from $150 billion USD to $100billion. Under the NZE scenario, it would drop from around $50billion to -$50 billion. The text at the bottom of the graph says “The government should instead boost clean industries that are better suited to a changing global economy.” The IISD logo is in the bottom left.
Photo of a milkweed plant in my garden. Three quarters of the frame features a common milkweed plant. I’m holding a leaf with a day or two old monarch caterpillar on it. It’s towards the centre of the plant and the area it has been chewing on has some milk sap coming out of it (hence the name “milkweed”). The background has some other plants out of focus (chamomile and swamp milkweed).
Close up photo of my beading station featuring 13 tubes of beads, and other beading supplies and random stuff, including a large spool of dymo thread, some wax, an awl, a pen, a few books, charger adapter, my makeshift bead holding surface so they don’t roll all over my little table, and a white baseball cap with a black embroidered Anishnabek Thunderbird on it. The are 10 bead tubes laying on the table upright in the following colours from left to right: black, sienna brown, white, light blue, light pink, fire engine red, tangerine orange, lemon yellow, spring green, cobalt blue. Then there are three purple tubes laying on the table perpendicular to the others. They’re next to the blue. From top to bottom, labelled a, b, c, respectively, they are: dark orchid, light orchid and purple. The books, though not related to my beading necessarily are: Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown, Unsettling Canada and The Reconciliation Manifesto by the late Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson.
Photo of my pollinator garden featuring swamp milkweed, common milkweed, chamomile, daisies, volunteer purple pansies with yellow centres in the middle ground of the photo. The chamomile is almost ready to show some yellow. The milkweeds are only about 8 inches tall so far. They will eventually reach a height of about 3 feet. The is one bee cup pictured. It's a tiny round light green shape in this image, almost right in the centre. Foreground is just grass and the background features a fence. Among the plants are last year's milkweed stems which are much taller and continue out of frame and they make perfect little hiding places for certain pollinators to overwinter.
Photo of a large brimmed tan coloured felt “rancher” hat flat against the wall which it is hanging upon. The band has 6 coloured flowers on it, left to right: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. The edge of the brim has been beaded in repeating patterns of the unity pride flag colours with the trans pride colours in the front and back of the hat. The sides of the beading are done in repeating geometric patterns.
Photo of a forest, lush and green with text overlayed that says: "In nature, nothing thrives alone. 

 Forests, rivers, fungi, and animals all exist in interconnected systems of support, sharing resources to ensure collective survival. 

Mutual aid isn’t just a human concept — it’s an ancient, natural practice." Taylar Belanger (Ahenakew), FB post
Photo of Doug Ford wearing a ball cap that says “Canada is not for sale” in upper case letters. It has a text box over it that covers the lower part of his face. The text says “But Doug Ford thinks Ontario is. While all eyes were on the Federal Election, Doug Ford tabled a destructive, anti-democratic bill that will annihilate environmental regulations, debilitate the endangered species act and squash decision-making powers of local communities. Bill 5 is a threat to ecosystems, human health and the democratic process.”
Photo of me standing in a tattoo shop, looking at myself in the ornate, black framed mirror. I’m wearing a black zimi mask, fitted with sip valve and a pair of stoggles. I’m also wearing a thick, black hoodie and tiny shorts to accommodate the large tattoo work on my thigh. Behind me, my AirFanta 4Lite and a couple of pillows are on the table. The room’s walls are white with lots of contemporary woodland style art depicting animals and more by the talented Ryan Pooman of Fort William First Nation.
Photo of my hand holding up a painting of Anemki Wajiw (Thunder Mountain, colonially known as Mount McKay). The painting done in classic Ricky style is a mosaic of red, orange, gold, green, blue and purple, in a gradient recreating the appearance of Anemki Wajiw in beautiful fall colours.
Photo: top of a table with an AirFanta 4Lite in the middle, surrounded by some other supplies including a black zimi mask, stoggles, a spray bottle of HOCl with a folded rag resting on top, and an Aranet CO2 monitor. The background is the walls and windows, with lots of tall evergreen trees and blue sky.
Photo: a snow covered lake (Lake Marie Louise) in the bottom third, a tree lined horizon with the Sleeping Giant (Nanabozhoo; a peninsula) with his “head” in almost the centre of the horizon, “body” and “feet” going towards the left side of the picture. The sun is setting in the right hand third of the image. The sky turning bright orange closest to the sun and blue with some clouds above the horizontal halfway point of the photo. On the left hand side, in the foreground, are some branches of both deciduous and evergreen trees framing the shot. The sunset’s colours are being reflected on the snow covered surface of the lake.
A photo of the little brown bat sleeping comfortably on a soft surface, some greenery and sticks in the background.
This is a photo of me holding the little brown bat. I'm wearing my regular PPE (well fitted respirator, white, and stoggles) and a fresh pair of gloves, green, to protect myself and the little bat while we moved her. I'm wearing a hot pink top and a grey blazer. In the background is a large outdoor art sculpture by Ahmoo Angeconeb, some greenery, the road, and part of a car.
Close up photo of a little brown bat sleeping on the concrete. Her body is light brown, her wings, ears and face are all darker. There are sticks and pine cones surrounding her as the first person on the scene wanted to ensure that no one accidentally stepped on her. In the background is the building and some greenery.
Photo of a large smoothie in a mason jar. The smoothie is mostly purple with dark flecks. There is a rainbow being projected onto the side of the mason jar. Background is my brown patterned counter top and green, brown, beige tiled backsplash with blurry cameos from my blender, kettle and honey.
A photo of a tiny packet of Aztec tobacco seed pod and loose seeds. In the background, a little container of more packets of seeds. Labelled: Aztec tobacco ‘24
My backyard with three raised veggie beds at the back. Drying milkweed stems without leaves are visible in the midground. Between those - is a big circle of soil where I sprinkled my fall planting seeds.
Wide angle shot of the milkweed area in my yard. Its tall, long skinny leaves are green and the flowers are dark and light pink at the tops of the plants. There’s an orange and black monarch on one of the plants. The fence with a hanging potted plant is in the background.
Collage of 6 photos featuring a brownish grey tabby cat with an orange nose and white chin and bright green eyes. Top left: Bette cuddling on the couch with her blankets and kuffiyeh. Top middle: me, a white passing Anishnaabekwe with my dark hair pulled back, wearing pink glasses, holding Bette as she head butts my face. Top right: Bette laying on her back, all stretched out on a French provincial sofa, reaching one paw to the camera. Bottom left: a blurry glimpse of Bette wearing the hat, on my very cluttered table, sticking her tongue out. Bottom middle: an unimpressed Bette on the table in front of my laptop, wearing the hat. Bottom right: Bette cuddled on a blanket on the sofa, holding the blanket and lifting her head up towards the camera, giving a loving smile.
Two round earrings made with light caramel coloured home smoked deer hide. In the centre of each earring is a minimalist design Anishinaabe style strawberry flower: the petals outlined in matte white beads and the centre outlined in matte yellow beads. The earrings are edged with pearl white beads and pink sparkly beads.
Green enamel coated galvanized steel raised garden bed featuring tomatoes, peppers and colourful bee cups!
Flyer description: A mostly white piece of paper. There’s a small Palestinian flag in top left corner. Some text says: “From Turtle Island to Palestine, Say “NO!” to Genocide!” Call your gov’t representatives now! +50% of the Palestinian people are children. In 2022, Canadian manufacturers exported more than $21 million in military goods to Israel, meaning last year saw the third-largest tally of annual military exports to Israel on record (behind 2021 and 1987). Prime Minister Justin.Trudeau@parl.gc.ca (613) 992-4211 Patty Hajdu Patty.Hajdu@parl.gc.ca (807) 766-2090 Marcus Powlowski Marcus.Powlowski@parl.gc.ca (807) 625-1160 Deputy Prime Minister (613) 992-5234 Minister of Foreign Affairs (613) 992-0983 Minister of International Development (613) 995-0777 Embassy of Israel (613) 567-6450 Make those calls! Tell them to withdraw Canada’s support for this ongoing genocide. Ceasefire now! Miigwetch!” There’s an outline of an iPhone with two QR codes in it.
Orange cat standing on a wooden table, facing the camera and meowing, tall flag raised. There’s also a mini Palestinian flag on the table. Some seating and other tables with mini flags in the background.
Part of the hospital, angular, metal beams are sort of pointing up and to the right respectively, meeting in almost a triangle and some trees. There is a dark sky and TWO huge rainbows that crossed the entire sky.