Jaime Arsenault

Jaime Arsenault, a Mi'kmaq woman, was an apprentice in Year 6 (2003-2004) of the Southern New England Apprenticeship Program under teaching artist Joseph Firecrow, Jr. He taught her the construction of a flute from choosing the wood, shaping it, carving its sound chamber, gluing and binding with sap and sinew, and adding the elk fetish hole cover and other decorative elements - all with hand tools. Jaime also learned some of the “Wolf Songs” appropriate to northern Plains flutes. They performed a song together at the Bridgeport Zoo’s “Zoo Folk” music series in June 2004.