Native Women in Fitness
Meet Deb Butler, a Navajo from Crownpoint, New Mexico is known throughout Indian Country for her energy and passion for being healthy. An alumnus of Haskell University, 32-year-old Butler lettered in both Volleyball and Track at the college. She’s been athletic ever since she was a little girl, and credits her family for guiding her. […]
Editor’s Letter: May/June 2015
Welcome to our first annual Native Women’s issue! With this issue, we’re focusing Native American and First Nations women who are making a change within their communities, unselfishly giving back and creating waves across Indian Country. With Juliana Brown Eyes-Clifford on our cover, this issue spotlights Native women in health and fitness, Native women who […]
2 Musicians You Should Listen to Now
CODY BLACKBIRD Dakota and Cherokee flutist Cody Blackbird is just the right mix of traditional and modern. Now with his newly formed band, The Cody Blackbird Band, he fuses flute-music with guitar, bass, drums and percussion. Growing up, Blackbird has lived on various reservations throughout the country, due to his father’s job with the USDA […]
Pride of the Crown: Getting to Know Carrissa Lowhorn
Carrissa Lowhorn always had a passion for helping others in need. From the Siksika Nation, her humanitarian instincts have led her towards a path in pageantry. To Carrissa, pageants aren’t about who is the most beautiful or wealthiest, but about standing up and speaking for her people. In 2011, Carrissa was crowned Miss Southern Alberta […]
[PHOTOS]: Spring Refreshing
Farewell to neutral browns and wool this Spring. Revive your style and personality with pastels, eye-catching patterns and airy frocks. Photography by Mike & Jamie Dupris Models: Nancy Negrette, Lisa Wradizlo and Jensen Peone Styling by Models
Make Us Proud: Aim Forward
Louis Still Smoking, a Blackfeet artist, is currently working towards a studio art degree at Montana State University along with a minor in Native American Studies. Still Smoking got inspiration for his latest work through his research on A.I.M (American Indian Movement) activism, protesters, the distress flag, and the need to express historical figures through […]
“My Door to the World”: A Native Youth’s Story
I am Oglala Lakota of the Pine Ridge Reservation, but I grew up in the small town of Wilmot, SD just outside of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation. Before graduating from Tiospa Zina Tribal School in 2009, I was a small town girl with big dreams of going far away to a big city for college. However, […]
No Longer Rookies of Hollywood: Andrew Orozco and Kiowa Gordon
What’s it like to be in the same room as Andrew Orozco and Kiowa Gordon? It’s normal, mostly. You know how some actors turn into big-headed, selfish and egotistical snobs who don’t care to meet you unless you’re a big-time celebrity yourself? Andrew Orozco and Kiowa Gordon are not like that, at all. On this […]
Behind the Ink: Alicia Smith
Alicia is a true artist who can transform a plain pair of boots or flats into works of art. Alicia, a member of the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation of British Columbia, wanted to see clothing, shoes and accessories of Native design that you could wear every day, and not just on special occasions. Drawing traditional animals on […]
The Moment: Cree Nisga’a Boots
Cree Nisga’a Clothing has certainly made their presence known in New York during the annual Couture Fashion Week last month. First Nations designers Linda Lavallee and Patrick Stewart design custom boots made with leather and handpainted with eyecatching designs. Photographs by Udor Fotography
