A woman who teaches anti-racism courses to health-care staff dealt with her grief over the death of Joyce Echaquan by beading Echaquan's likeness into a medallion and giving it to the woman's husband.

A Winnipeg woman who spent more than two years doing intricate beadwork on a medallion of Indigenous Manitoba war hero Sgt. Tommy Prince is pleading for the return of her art.

They needed to bead 30 medallions in 30 days for every player of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team — but each medallion takes between 10 and 15 hours to complete.