Searchers looking for Nicole Horassi have found her clothing on the shore by the confluence of the Bear and Mackenzie rivers near Tulita, N.W.T., a spokesman for the teen's family has confirmed.

Horassi, 17, was last seen in the community on June 24 and the clothing she was last seen wearing was found this week.

Nicole Horassi, 17, was last seen in the community on June 24. This week, searchers found her clothes along the shore of the confluence of the Bear and Mackenzie rivers. (Facebook)

Sahtu MLA Norman Yakeleya has helped coordinate the search and spoke on behalf of the family.

“We have the whole community of Tulita cooking, making sandwiches, running around to get gas. People are giving up their homes for the out-of-town people who are helping,” he said.

“There is so much support across the north here and down in southern Canada. [The family] feels so overwhelmed.”

Yakeleya said about 60 to 70 people from Fort Good Hope to Fort Simpson are searching in boats along the river system, dragging a portion of the rivers.

There are about eight nets in the Mackenzie River, in sections where the current is strong, he said.

“On a massive scale we’re doing as much as we humanly can do,” he said. “We’re looking at every inch across the Sahtu where we could locate Nicole.”

Yakeleya said the search includes two boats travelling up the Bear River, about 25 people searching on the ground, several helicopters flying along the Mackenzie, and quads along the winter roads.

A Facebook page dedicated to finding Horassi had almost 4,500 followers as of Thursday.

Delegates at this week’s Dene National Assembly in Whati, N.W.T., have come together to raise over $3,000.

“We're all related to one another. So as soon as we get back, we're all going to go to Tulita to support the family,” said Charlie Nayally, an assembly delegate from the Sahtu region.

Yakeleya said companies such as Esso and Enbridge have lent their boats and airlines have donated cargo space and flights to people helping with the search.

Yakeleya said there are daily updates from the RCMP.