It’s a Saturday evening in early July, and I’m walking along Gwich’in Road in the town of Inuvik, Northwest Territories, towards Cynthia’s Bed and Breakfast, where I’m staying to attend the 2026 Great Northern Arts Festival. The dusty road, lined with stalks of bright pink fireweed and vetch tangled together, is empty of vehicles. It’s …
In August 2020, Margaret Nazon, a Northwest Territories beader for whom I was acting as business manager, forwarded me an email, saying, “I’m very interested in this opportunity.” When I read the email, I almost dropped my phone. Stephen Loring, an Arctic anthropologist with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, was requesting a commission …
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