NWT Arts

Erma Baton

Region:

South Slave

Community:

Fort Smith

I started sewing in grade 8 and got back into it more seriously after high school. I learned from watching my late mother, Theresa Baton. I would watch her sew lot as a young girl because we grew up on the land in the Sahtu Region. I was taught how to hunt, how to trap, and how to sew. I still...

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Eli Nasogaluak

Region:

North Slave

Community:

Yellowknife

My brothers and I grew up on a little isolated island (in Tuktoyaktuk) with no power or electricity. We didn’t have many distractions there and drawing gave us something to do. There was no capturing of images with cameras in those days, so it was all just mental images that we put down on paper...

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