About Nigit'stil Norbert
Nigit’stil is a multidisciplinary artist, activist and advocate. Born and raised in Denendeh/Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. In 2019 she picked up her Gwich’in roots to plant them in their ancestral home within the Beaufort Delta Region in the Arctic town of Inuvik, Northwest Territories which boasts a large multicultural demographic led by strong Inuvialuit and Gwich’in cultural traditions.
Norbert is passionate about politics and engaging with her community, with a focus on strengthening and empowering youth voices and growth through avenues of creative expression and social justice. Her current project, partnered with co-conspirator Inuvialuit Alyssa Carpenter, is the inception of a Beaufort Delta youth charity organization that will serve both Inuvialuit and Gwich’in youth of the region, and those members who live outside the region, to come together on the land. The on-the-land youth gatherings center around meaningful mentorship, learning long practiced traditional skills and rooting youth in new understandings of their own personal cultural connections and responsibilities to community and the land.
She is currently an appointed board member of the Gwich’in Land and Water Board along with an appointed panel member for the Giant Mine Remediation Project of the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board.
Her artwork has been exhibited and toured in Canada and the U.S. and her first solo exhibition, Beading Heart, which focuses on the lifeblood that is the Nagwichoonjik/Dehcho/Mackenzie River, will exhibit in 2021.
Within her art, and within her life, she likes to speak simply, honestly and without fear. Her love of the land, her curiosity and deep heart have brought her home to find and build community with elders and youth alike.
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