Long Lake #58 First Nation Anishinaabekwe announced as TikTok changemaker

By Rick Garrick

TORONTO — Long Lake #58’s Natasha Fisher is honoured to be one of 15 Indigenous changemakers announced by TikTok Canada on May 30 for its 2025 #IndigenousTikTok Visionary Voices initiative in celebration of National Indigenous History Month.

“It feels like an incredible honour to be on a list of some of the content creators that I look up to,” Fisher says. “I feel really accomplished and I feel recognized in the best way.”

Fisher was previously recognized as one of 40 Indigenous creators in the third edition of the TikTok Accelerator for Indigenous Creators program in 2023.

“In the last year and a half, I’ve been really focusing on music,” Fisher says. “When I first started on TikTok, I was making a lot of educational TikTok videos and a lot of identity videos, being a mixed urban Indigenous person. Building that community of people who had similar shared experiences to me helped me feel seen and gave me more confidence to pursue my art, and my goals, and my dreams.”

Fisher says her involvement with TikTok has provided her with a platform to share her thoughts and struggles, noting that she writes songs and music as a way to deal with her struggles and hardships.

“I did a cover of Ernest Monias’ If I Wanted You Girl, but I made it If I Wanted You Boy, and I released that onto my streaming platforms,” Fisher says. “I have almost 50,000 streams and it has given me more of an audience.”

Fisher says she has also been highlighting the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) crisis through her platform, including the release of a song about MMIWG called, Where Do We Go.

“I’ve been very vocal about this crisis on my social media for years now and it was nice that this year I got to release a song that I wrote,” Fisher says. “It’s a song about MMIWG and about missing and murdered Indigenous people and just the unsafeness and the lack of security that Indigenous women feel in the world today. I got the chance to promote that and release it on my social media and on my TikTok and be able to bring more people into the awareness regarding that topic. Some of the things I’ve been working on in the past year is finding a way to find that middle ground between content creator and artist and creative and musician.”

Fisher, who grew up in Thunder Bay, says she loves going back there, especially for Matawa First Nations and Nishnawbe Aski Nation events.

“Those are some of the first events I ever performed at or ever got a chance to get on stage or speak on,” Fisher says. “I live in Toronto now — I always feel extremely honoured to still get the opportunities to sing on stages that raised me basically as an artist. I don’t think I would be the artist and the creative that I am today without those opportunities that were given to me from my community.”

Fisher says she is always proud to highlight that she is an Anishinaabekwe when she is on stage across the country.

“Every single time I get on a stage across Canada and across Turtle Island, I am always proudly repping as an Anishinaabekwe,” Fisher says. “I’m super proud of where I come from and I’m proud to rep our people and to be a good role model for our youth.”

Fisher says she has achieved many of the dreams she had when she was young, but still has future goals.

“I wanted to make a living off of art and I’m doing that,” Fisher says. “I’m super proud of how far I’ve come, but I’m not done yet, I want to do more and release more music and gain a bigger following and a bigger audience.”

Information about TikTok Canada’s 2025 #IndigenousTikTok Visionary Voices is posted online.