About

Nakota Creative Media

Sasha McArthur is the founder of Nakota Creative Media and a familiar face within the community of East Vancouver. Sasha has worked with many local organizations such as Urban Native Youth Association, the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society, Watari and has volunteered with the Boy’s and Girl’s Club among other non-profit agencies.

Before moving to Vancouver at the age of 17, Sasha lived with her foster parents in Regina, Saskatchewan. She was born in Southern Saskatchewan and grew up on Whitebear Reserve, just North of Carlyle.

Sasha spent most of her childhood with her paternal grandmother Bella. While living with her grandmother Sasha learned about her Nakota and Cree roots. A history going back to before “The Great March of 1874” where two of her great grandparents were escorted by the family name sake N.W.M.P. Constable Arthur McArthur.

Later on in her 20’s while living in Santa Clara, CA, surrounded by the tech industry of Silicon Valley Sasha was inspired to create her first small business venture. A small web design firm that she eventually moved North to West Vancouver.

Sasha currently attends the Independent Indigenous Digital Filmmaking program at Capilano University in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. It’s within the IIDF program that Sasha wrote and filmed her first short film titled The Carlyle.

When not scuba diving, playing World of Warcraft, obsessing over coffee or watching the latest AFL game Sasha can be found volunteering at local beach clean ups and cultural events.