Sassa Linklater
Sassa Linklater (lives and works in North Bay, ON) is Omaskêko Ininu from Moose Cree First Nation and Sugpiaq from the Native Villages of Afognak and Port Lions in Alaska. A multimedia artist, she beads, sews, paints on parfleche, and makes digital art. Sassa was crowned Miss Nipissing in 2023 and Miss Wikwemikoong in 2025. She dances old style jingle, old style fancy and woodland, makes dancing regalia, and sings at powwows and round dances. Sassa has shown animations at Trinity Square Video, Toronto (2020) and All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis (2017). She is featured in A gentle reassembly (2022), They fall the ground beneath you (2018), and The treaty is in the body (2017)—videos by Tanya Lukin Linklater concerning embodied Indigenous knowledge and material culture. She plans to attend university to become a Cree language teacher like her late tanisko caban (great-grandmother), Agnes Hunter of Peawanuck.
