Bear said he reconnects with his Plains Cree roots through the Pawakan masks by giving them names in Nēhiyawēwin, which was his father's language, instead of his mother's language of Wolastoqey.

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Bear said he feels as though the Pawakan masks are not his own works, that they belong to the spirit guides he channels as he creates them, so he doesn't put a maker's mark on them. "I'm just a ...