A Moose Jaw woman is getting a little help from the Saskatchewan Arts Board for a new project.

Barbara Frazer is an artist and is now beginning the process of creating a literary practice book with thanks to the Indigenous Pathways Grant she received of $5,000.

"What I seek to do is to create a place where the term hand building knowledge has a place in our social discussions and this is everyday and it's how first nations knowledge is passed down because we are an oral culture.. so there for knowledge is passed down" said Frazer.

Frazer says the way she was raised is a big contribution to the information that will be in her book.

"I as a child observed my ancestors making... necklaces from the wolf willow bead or beading and seeing quills being used. Medicinal plants being picked and myself picking as apart of it, and then seeing the many forms of which these plants took form."

Frazer explained what she hopes people will take away from the book after reading it.

"Hand building knowledge is something that everyone has, if you've ever sat and watched your grandparents make or continue one of their ancestral arts it becomes first by the sensory, it's all sensory and then it's you trying being apart of that process."

The Saskatchewan Arts Board stated the idea of the grant is to use "multimedia to create meaning".