(November 22, 2024, Yellowknife) – The Third Annual Tłı̨chǫ Arts Holiday Sale and Showcase (Showcase) will be held Saturday, November 23, 2024, at the Chateau Nova Hotel, Caribou Room, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Showcase has grown from ten artists in the first year to 20 in the second year, attracting close to 1200 shoppers in just over six hours. This year will mark the highest number of participating Tłı̨chǫ artists (31) working to showcase their many artistic talents while supporting and encouraging the traditional economy.

In addition to offering outstanding Tłı̨chǫ products, the Showcase will introduce a unique cultural experience for guests - the Moccasin Trail. The Moccasin Trail encourages visitors to try their hand at traditional beading and play a Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì-English Matching Word Game. Each stamp received for participation on the Moccasin Trail will qualify shoppers to win hourly prize draws.  

Further, two new Northern food products will be introduced at this year's event:

Whaèhdǫǫ̀ lidì – Tea of Our Ancestors
- Loose leaf herbal tea foraged on Tłı̨chǫ lands by Tłı̨chǫ hands

Gǫ̀ K’itì” – Fireweed Blossom Syrup
- Foraged from the land by Tłı̨chǫ hands

Both of these products were funded by Tłı̨chǫ Government and CanNor. Product development was made possible through a partnership between Tłı̨chǫ Government and Laughing Lichen.

Together these efforts support Strategic Intention # 4 – Build Our Self-Suffiency Through the Traditional  Economy and Economic Development.

Showcase shoppers will have an opportunity to sample the tea onsite, and both products will be available onsite at the Tłı̨chǫ Arts Online Store.

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The goal of the 2024 Summer Foraging & Internship Program was to connect Tłı̨chǫ community harvesters to traditional knowledge regarding plant use and enable the sustainable foraging of plants on Tłı̨chǫ lands and within the Mǫwhì Gogha Dè Nı̨ı̨tłèè boundary. We also wanted to create two unique retail food products in the NWT, making cultural connections through retail food products and promoting economic development opportunities in the region through stewardship of the land. - Grand Chief Jackson Lafferty

For more information, contact

Kelley Ryder
Communications and Public Affairs
Ph: 867-444-9963
Email: [email protected]
www.tlicho.ca