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Mii-Sum-In-Iskum (Long Time Buffalo Rock), also known as Justin Many Fingers, is a Blackfoot, queer, disabled, and Mad interdisciplinary artist from the Kainai Blackfoot Nation in southern Alberta. He is a choreographer, performer, director, producer, curator, arts administration leader, and cultural leader. Justin is also a founding member and former Artistic Director of Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society.

Justin’s practice brings Blackfoot ways of knowing into relationship with contemporary performance, storytelling, choreography, producing, curatorial practice, and arts leadership. His work includes the Niitoyis Method, a Blackfoot and Indigenous-led approach to artistic creation grounded in relationship, reciprocity, cultural responsibility, and living exchange.

Justin holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary and studied Arts and Cultural Management at MacEwan University. He is also a graduate of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre’s three-year acting conservatory and studied with the Soulpepper Academy. Over two decades, Justin has worked and exchanged knowledge with artists and organizations across Canada and internationally, including in Australia, Thailand, Japan, Greenland, Mexico, the United States.

His artistic and cultural development has been deeply influenced by Elders Narcisse Blood, Alvine Mountain Horse, and Beverly Hungry Wolf.