Through this paternal line, Jeremy is connected to figures such as Antoine Desjarlais, a Métis fur trader and scrip recipient; Daniel Frederic Paul, a Red River–born Métis leader; and Marguerite Guiboche, descendant of the renowned interpreter Louis Guiboche. These ancestors lived through the birth of the
Métis Nation, the buffalo brigades, and the political upheavals that shaped the Prairies. Their stories echo through Jeremy’s work, informing his understanding of identity, resistance, and cultural survival. On his grandmother Hazel Lorraine Gladue’s side, Jeremy carries the Gladue, Dubois, Pilon, Harkness, Hourie, and Bird families; a lineage woven through Cree, Saulteaux, and Métis histories. This includes powerful figures such as Peter “Mosquito Hawk” Hourie, a Métis interpreter and Chief Scout during the 1885 Resistance; Cecile Harkness, a Cree matriarch born in the Red River era; and Margaret Bird, daughter of James Curtis Bird, Chief Factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company and a man deeply tied to Cree kinship networks. Hazel’s lineage carries stories of interpreters, scouts, and women who held communities together through migration, colonial disruption, and cultural endurance — stories that now
live through Jeremy’s leadership and creative expression.
These bloodlines converge in Jeremy, shaping the way he creates, leads, and heals. His art: swirling eyes, layered faces, textured chaos, and ancestral presence is an act of blood memory. Each piece is a ceremony in visual form, a continuation of the cultural resurgence his ancestors fought to protect.
connection, revitalization, and collective strength.
children, Dax Wolf and Genevieve, ensuring they inherit a lineage of resilience, pride, and cultural
identity.
Through his art, ceremony, documentary storytelling, advocacy, and mentorship and through the collective power of The Red Road Collective, Jeremy Frederickson stands as a powerful force for Indigenous resurgence. His life’s work is a reminder that healing is possible, that creativity is medicine, and that the stories carried in our bloodlines continue to shape the world when we choose to rise, speak, and create. The Ancestors heard his voice across generations, and Jeremy stepped into the path they laid before him with purpose, with courage and with fire.
ABOUT US & ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW
Anita Frederickson Foundation
The Anita Frederickson Foundation was created in honor of Anita Lynn Frederickson, a mother whose life was shaped by love, struggle, and the impacts of addiction. Her passing became a turning point for the many people who would one day find healing through the work inspired by her story.
The Foundation stands as a living promise that trauma can be transformed, that dignity can be restored, that culture can guide us back to ourselves. What began as one family’s grief has grown into a community‑rooted movement of healing, truth‑telling, and cultural resurgence.
Our Roots: A Story of Lineage, Resilience, and Responsibility
Founder Jeremy Frederickson carries a powerful lineage that spans the Red River, the Northwest Territories, the Dakota homelands, and the heart of Métis, Cree, Saulteaux, and French-Canadian history. His ancestors were interpreters, scouts, matriarchs, fur traders, and cultural knowledge keepers, people who held communities together through upheaval, migration, and colonial disruption.
Jeremy’s own healing journey, through art, ceremony, community, and addiction became the foundation’s heartbeat. His work as an artist, ceremonial helper, documentarian, and mentor reflects the teachings of his ancestors and the resilience of his lived experience.
The Foundation is also shaped by the Red Road Collective, a circle of Elders, survivors, artists, and knowledge keepers.
Together, they guide the Foundation with truth, humor, protocol, and lived experience.
Our Mission
The Anita Frederickson Foundation exists to transform lived experience into healing by weaving Indigenous cultural arts, ceremony, land‑based teachings, and community connection into powerful pathways of wellness.
We support individuals living with mental health and substance‑use challenges through culturally grounded workshops, mentorship, and community‑based healing. Our programs, including Weaving Wisdom Through Art, Sacred Visions, drum‑making, storytelling circles, documentary projects, and land‑based teachings reconnect people with identity, ceremony, and ancestral strength.
The Foundation exists because one family’s story of loss became a community commitment to healing. We carry Anita’s memory forward by helping others reclaim hope, belonging, and the courage to walk their own healing path with dignity, strength, and cultural pride.
Our Vision: The Anita Frederickson Healing Farm
We envision the creation of the Anita Frederickson Healing Farm, a land‑based sanctuary where culture, ceremony, and community come together to restore balance.
A place where:
- gardens, medicines, and food sovereignty programs thrive.
- animals support therapeutic connection.
- art studios, drum lodges, and teaching lodges stand side by side.
- sweat lodge, water ceremony, and land‑based teachings guide healing.
- Elders teach, youth learn, and families reconnect.
- People in recovery find safety, purpose, and belonging.
The Healing Farm will be a self‑sustaining cultural healing village, a place where people can breathe, create, learn, and heal in relationship with the land, the ancestors, and one another.
Our Values
The Anita Frederickson Foundation is guided by values rooted in culture, community, and ancestral teachings:
Truth‑Telling
Healing begins with honesty, courage, and the willingness to speak what was once silenced.
Cultural Safety
We create spaces where Indigenous identity is respected, protected, and uplifted.
Intergenerational Healing
Elders, youth, families, and knowledge keepers walk together in restoring what colonial systems tried to break.
Art as Medicine
Creativity reconnects people with identity, memory, and ancestral strength.
Land‑Based Wellness
The land is our first teacher and a partner in healing.
Dignity and Compassion
Every person deserves to be met with respect, understanding, and the belief that healing is possible.
Community Responsibility
We walk the Red Road with integrity, accountability, and a commitment to uplifting those who walk beside us.
Legacy and Continuity
We honor Anita’s memory by building a future where her story becomes a source of strength.
Who We Serve
- Indigenous individuals and families impacted by mental health and addiction.
- Youth seeking cultural connection and mentorship.
- Survivors of intergenerational trauma
- Community members seeking ceremony, creativity, and belonging.
- People in recovery are looking for culturally grounded support.
Why We Exist
Because
healing is possible.
Because culture saves lives.
Because one mother’s story became a movement.
Because the ancestors are still speaking, and we are listening.
Phone: 250-986-0155
Instagram: wolf_havana_designs
Art. Healing. Community. Legacy.
- Repurposed fabrics symbolizing renewal and the reclaiming of what was once discarded
- Epoxy resin sealing layers of story, memory, and healing
- Dreamcatcher weaving with willow, sinew, feathers, and medicines
- Smudging and prayer before creation
- Landbased inspiration from ceremony, sweat lodge, and time with Elders
Wolf & Havana Designs is Jeremy’s creative studio, named in honor of his children: Dax Wolf Frederickson and Genevieve Havana Frederickson.
when we choose to rise, create, carry our stories forward.
- Weaving Wisdom Through Art
- Sacred Visions
- Dreamcatcher Circles
- Mixed Media Healing Workshops
- LandBased Art & Teachings
VISION: THE ANITA FREDERICKSON HEALING FARM
- art studios, gardens, and teaching lodges stand side by side
- sweat lodge, water ceremony, and landbased teachings guide healing
- Elders teach, youth learn, and families reconnect
- People in recovery find safety, purpose, and belonging.
VALUES
- offer free and accessible healing workshops
- create safe spaces for ceremony and cultural connection
- Building the Future Healing Farm
- uplift Indigenous artists and storytellers
- provide community care for those walking through mental health and addiction challenges
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