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sartorialadventure · 6 months

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Diné (Navajo) Girl Wearing Silver And Turquoise Squash Blossom Jewelry, 1950

#native american #native american fashion #dine #dine fashion #navajo #navajo fashion #jewelry #hairstyles

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olowan-waphiya · 5 months

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#indigenous #native american #video #art #authenticity #ndn #ndn tumblr #vintage photography #photography #american indians #indians #native americans #native american fashion #fashion #cultural genocide #indigenous culture #cultural appropriation #Youtube

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bixels · 8 months

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As they say in the industry, you either know fashion or you don't. And Miss Rarity certainly knows it!

#mlp #rainbow dash #rarity #my little pony #my art #fanart #1920s au #comic #little call out to myself but technically the bolo tie is anachronistic #they probably weren't invented until the 40s but that's kinda contested #but i felt it was important to give rd's suit a small piece of native american fashion identity #compared to the previous intentionally white-euro dresses

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zoe-oneesama · 5 months

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Some "Special" Girls! And the late girls.

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reasonsforhope · 2 months

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"Minnetonka first started selling its “Thunderbird” moccasins in 1965. Now, for the first time, they’ve been redesigned by a Native American designer.

It’s one step in the company’s larger work to deal with its history of cultural appropriation. The Minneapolis-based company launched in the 1940s as a small business making souvenirs for roadside gift shops in the region—including Native American-inspired moccasins, though the business wasn’t started or run by Native Americans. The moccasins soon became its biggest seller.

[Photo: Minnetonka]

Adrienne Benjamin, an Anishanaabe artist and community activist who became the company’s “reconciliation advisor,” was initially reluctant when a tribal elder approached her about meeting with the company. Other activists had dismissed the idea that the company would do the work to truly transform. But Benjamin agreed to the meeting, and the conversation convinced her to move forward.

“I sensed a genuine commitment to positive change,” she says. “They had really done their homework as far as understanding and acknowledging the wrong and the appropriation. I think they knew for a long time that things needed to get better, and they just weren’t sure what a first step was.”

Pictured: Lucie Skjefte and son Animikii [Photo: Minnetonka]

In 2020, Minnetonka publicly apologized “for having benefited from selling Native-inspired designs without directly honoring Native culture or communities.” It also said that it was actively recruiting Native Americans to work at the company, reexamining its branding, looking for Native-owned businesses to partner with, continuing to support Native American nonprofits, and that it planned to collaborate with Native American artists and designers.

Benjamin partnered with the company on the first collaboration, a collection of hand-beaded hats, and then recruited the Minneapolis-based designer Lucie Skjefte, a citizen of the Red Lake Nation, who designed the beadwork for another moccasin style and a pair of slippers for the brand. Skjefte says that she felt comfortable working with the company knowing that it had already done work with Benjamin on reconciliation. And she wasn’t a stranger to the brand. “Our grandmothers and our mothers would always look for moccasins in a clutch kind of situation where they didn’t have a pair ready and available to make on their own—then they would buy Minnetonka mocs and walk into a traditional pow wow and wear them,” she says. Her mother, she says, who passed away in 2019, would have been “immensely proud” that Skjefte’s design work was part of the moccasins—and on the new version of the Thunderbird moccasin, one of the company’s top-selling styles.

[Photo: Minnetonka]

“I started thinking about all of those stories, and what resonated with me visually,” Skjefte says. The redesign, she says, is much more detailed and authentic than the previous version. “Through the redesign and beading process, we are actively reclaiming and reconnecting our Animikii or Thunderbird motif with its Indigenous roots,” she says. Skjefte will earn royalties for the design, and Minnetonka will also separately donate a portion of the sale of each shoe to Mni Sota Fund, a nonprofit that helps Native Americans in Minnesota get training and capital for home ownership and entrepreneurship.

Some companies go a step farther—Manitobah Mukluks, based in Canada, has an Indigenous founder and more than half Indigenous staff. (While Minnetonka is actively recruiting more Native American workers, the company says that employees self-report race and it can’t share any data about its current number of Indigenous employees.) Beyond its own line of products, Manitobah also has an online Indigenous Market that features artists who earn 100% of the profit for their work.

White Bear Moccasins, a Native-owned-and-made brand in Montana, makes moccasins from bison hide. Each custom pair can take six to eight hours to make; the shoes cost hundreds of dollars, though they can also be repaired and last as long as a lifetime, says owner Shauna White Bear. In interviews, White Bear has said that she wants “to take our craft back,” from companies like Minnetonka. But she also told Fast Company that she doesn’t think that Minnetonka, as a family-owned business, should have to lose its livelihood now and stop making moccasins.

The situation is arguably different for other fashion brands that might use a Native American symbol—or rip off a Native American design completely—on a single product that could easily be taken off the market. Benjamin says that she has also worked with other companies that have discontinued products.

She sees five steps in the process of reconciliation. First, the person or company who did wrong has to acknowledge the wrong. Then they need to publicly apologize, begin to change behavior, start to rebuild trust, and then, eventually, the wronged party might take the step of forgiveness. Right now, she says, Minnetonka is in the third phase of behavior change. The brand plans to continue to collaborate with Native American designers.

The company can be an example to others on how to listen and build true relationships, Benjamin says. “I think that’s the only way that these relationships are going to get any better—people have to sit down and talk about it,” she says. “People have to be real. People have to apologize. They have to want to reconcile with people.”

The leadership at Minnetonka can also be allies in pushing other companies to do better. “My voice is important at the table as an Indigenous woman,” Benjamin says. “Lucie’s voice is important. But at tables where there’s a majority of people that aren’t Indigenous, sometimes those allies’ voices are more powerful in those spaces, because that means that they’ve signed on to what we’re saying. The power has signed on to moving forward and we agree with ‘Yes, this was wrong.’ That’s the stuff that’s going to change [things] right there.”"

-via FastCompany, February 7, 2024

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manicpixiedepressedwitch · 7 months

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lily gladstone on the cover of british vogue! oscar era incoming ikdr!!

#british vogue #lily gladstone #killers of the flower moon #leo dicaprio #leonardo dicaprio #october #october 22 #october issue #fashion #fashion magazine #native beauty #native women #native american #craig mcdean

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neechees · 2 months

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Some outfits for my girl Storm-Woman

#image description in alt #native american #ndn #ocs #oc #did this on my phone #fashion #justin's art #oc;; storm woman

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gothgleek · 1 year

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Quannah Chasinghorse at the Met Gala 2023

#quannah chasinghorse #met gala #met gala 2023 #karl lagerfeld #fashion #couture #native American #Chanel #mine

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sixteenseveredhands · 16 days

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World's Oldest Leather Shoe, from Armenia, c.3500 BCE: this prehistoric shoe dates back to about 5,500 years ago, making it the oldest leather shoe in the world

The shoe was found within a cave in the Vayots Dzor province of Armenia, where it had been preserved beneath a layer of sheep dung for more than five millennia.

From the BBC:

At 5,500 years old, the well preserved cow-hide shoe pre-dates Stonehenge by 400 years and the Pyramids of Giza by 1,000 years.

It was made of a single piece of leather and was shaped to fit the wearer's foot, researchers say.

The shoe contained grass, although the archaeologists are uncertain as to whether this was to keep the foot warm or to maintain the shape of the footwear.

Archaeologists put the shoe's remarkable preservation down to the stable, cool and dry conditions in the cave, and the fact that the floor of the cave was covered by a thick layer of sheep dung. This layer of excrement acted as a solid seal, preserving it over the millennia.

According to researchers, the shoe was deliberately buried in a clay-lined pit located within the cave system, though it's unclear why it was originally buried there. The evidence suggests that the shoe was more than just a ritual object -- an imprint of the wearer's big toe is still visible in the leather, and there is a significant amount of wear along the heel and ball of the foot.

This is the oldest leather shoe that has ever been discovered, but older shoes made of plant fiber have been found at sites in Missouri and Oregon. The oldest shoes ever discovered come from Oregon's Fort Rock Cave, where archaeologists unearthed dozens of sandals dating back to about 10,000 years ago.

Sandals from Fort Rock Cave, Oregon

Sources & More Info:

National Geographic: World's Oldest Leather Shoe Found--Stunningly Preserved

BBC: 'Oldest Leather Shoe' Discovered

The Bulletin: Viral Story about World's Oldest Shoes Failed to Mention Ancient Fort Rock Footwear

Oregon Encyclopedia: Fort Rock Sandals

#archaeology #history #artifact #anthropology #prehistoric #fashion #leather shoe #armenia #prehistoric clothing #preservation #crafting #leather work #ancient history #fort rock cave #oregon #prehistoric footwear #sandals #native american history #world's oldest shoes

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yourdailyqueer · 1 month

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Delina White

Gender: Two spirit (unsure of pronouns)

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: Born 1964

Ethnicity: Native American (Ojibwe)

Occupation: Fashion designer, artist, activist

#Delina White #bipoc #lgbt #lgbtq #qpoc #two spirit #non binary #native #poc #native american #fashion designer #artist #activist

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shewhoworshipscarlin · 1 year

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Yup'ik woman, 1928, Nunivak Island.

#1920s #antique #native american #innuit #fashion

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sartorialadventure · 2 years

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Street style at the Santa Fe Indian Market, photographed by Shayla Blatchford

Check out the source for article, more photos, and names of designers!

Another Vogue article on artists and designers at the Santa Fe Indian Market.

More images below the cut!

^ Natasha Ashley Brokeshoulder

“Natasha Ashley Brokeshoulder, for instance, who is Diné, wore a wing dress created by her father-in-law, while her breastplate was assembled by her husband. “I got the right to wear the regalia that I have from my husband, who is Absentee Shawnee from the Southern Plains,” she said, adding that it is respectful to gain permission from other tribes to wear their specific styles of garment.”

^ James Budday

^ Sharon Brokeshoulder

^ Zeke Arjeanas

‘Others chose a more historical approach to fashion. Zeke Arjeanas, who is also Diné and won first place in the men’s category, referenced the Long Walk of the Navajo (the 1860s deportation of this indigenous tribe from their native land) for his traditional Clothing Contest outfit. “What I’m wearing is a blanket—not a Navajo blanket, but an army-issued blanket that was issued to the Navajos [at that time],” he said. “With the army-issued blanket, it’s a lot thicker and scratchier versus a Navajo textile blanket, which was more fine, lightweight, and waterproof.”’

^ Two looks from Korina Emmerich with jewelry by Tania Larsson

“...the new collection of the New York–based designer Korina Emmerich (Puyallup), whose asymmetrical vests and graphic wool coats offered a modern interpretation of her tribe’s punchy aesthetic. She also used Gwich’in-inspired jewelry by Larsson, mentioned above, in the show. “What I admire in Korina’s work is her modern, impeccable cuts,” Larsson said. “There is a traditional element that is inherent within my work because of the materials that I use and through the process that they are acquired, such as trade and through community exchanges.””

^ Phillip Bread in a Matthew Charley squash blossom necklace

^ Marcus Winchester

#fashion #native american #native american fashion #native american art #jewelry #headdress #men's fashion #hairstyles #shawnee #dine

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daguerreotyping · 10 months

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Tintype of a Native American man arrayed in a beautiful combination of textiles and textures, c. 1860s

#from an ended ebay auction with no info beyond “Native American”#so far I've not found any other examples of similar hairstyle—especially these distinctive long spiral paper(?) decorations—or clothing #I'd love to know more but in any case what a stunning image #19th century #1800s #1860s #19th century fashion #historical fashion #fashion history #men's fashion #menswear #19th century photography #tintype #ferrotype #19th century men

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lookingbackatfashionhistory · 11 months

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• American Indian beaded sash integrated into western-style handbag.

Date: 1890-1910

Place of origin: United States of America American Indian

Medium: Hinged metal frame with embossed floral pattern, dark gray velvet with white floral beaded sash applied over surface, lined with dark yellow silk, linked wrist strap.

#fashion history #history of fashion #fashion #19th century fashion #19th century #native American #handbag #1890 #1910

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vintage-tigre · 5 months

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