Native Max •

Jontay Kahm shines at Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards - Native Max

The 10th annual Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards had Indigenous representation from presenters, to nominees, and one winner – Jontay Kahm. The Plains Cree designer from the Mosquito, Grizzly Bear’s Head, Lean Man First Nation in Saskatchewan, took home the Emerging Talent Fashion Design award, which comes with a cash prize of $10,000 (CAD) as well as one-year of mentorship to assist in marketing, finance, PR and branding.
ELLE Canada Magazine | Beauty, Fashion and Lifesty •

Heather Diamond Strongarm Is Taking It All In Stride | ELLE Canada Magazine | Beauty, Fashion and Lifestyle Trends & Celebrity News

If you’ve been paying attention to the runways in the past few years, you might have noticed a brand-new face with incredible range. Model Heather Diamond Strongarm can do ethereal for Carolina Herrera, rock star for Versace or quirky for Jil Sander, and she has had the honour of closing for Marc Jacobs and opening and closing two separate shows for Dior.
POV Magazine •

Revitalizing Knowledge

Eagerly anticipated documentaries by Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard and Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson are finally being released this spring with recent Canadian debuts at Hot Docs and DOXA. Hubbard and Jackson take Indigenous experts as their subjects, one focusing on the conservation of buffalo in North America and the other focusing on star lore and astronomy. Both films feel urgent, capturing revitalized knowledge before it’s too late.
Elle Canada •

Meet the First All-Indigenous Modelling Agency

It’s early October, and Vancouver-based entrepreneur Joleen Mitton is juggling planning the fourth edition of Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week (VIFW) and managing the world’s first Indigenous-owned modelling agency, Supernaturals Modelling. Between programming a slate of Indigenous designers—like Himikalas Pam Baker and Patricia Michaels—and overseeing the construction of the set for the event, as VIFW’s founder and artistic director, Mitton is supporting a lineup of models who will likely walk
Hazlitt •

Six Miles from the Mouth of the River

I have the fuzziest recollection of the first time I heard a land acknowledgement, likely at an artist talk at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2016 or so. I would’ve been around thirty-five years old, and when the event host recited the acknowledgement, I was…confused. It turned out that this was my first of many land acknowledgements I would experience. They would roll out time and time again, in educational, entertainment and sporting spaces, gaining steam over the last decade.
Vogue •

Indigenous Weaver Naiomi Glasses Is Ralph Lauren’s First Artist in Residence

Southwestern-inspired patterns have been a staple of Ralph Lauren’s iconic designs for more than 56 years, born out of the designer’s fascination with Native American craftsmanship. On December 5, the homage is about to become way more authentic. In a deeply meaningful move towards collaboration, Ralph Lauren unveiled the first drop of a capsule collection made through its inaugural Artist in Residence program, starting with the renowned seventh-generation Diné weaver and textile artist Naiomi Glasses.
Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews •

Celebrated author Michelle Good expands the conversation about colonialism in new nonfiction work - Quill and Quire

Since her debut novel, Five Little Indians, was released in 2020, Michelle Good has received hundreds of emails from people thanking her for opening their eyes to the residential school experience. One woman even apologized for being a racist all of her life, and she wrote that reading Good’s book – which humanizes five young adults as they navigate life post-residential school – had changed her into a better person.
Vogue •

How Two Young Climate Activists Are Tackling Water and Food Insecurity Across North America

With a name derived from the Lakota tribe’s historical Tokala Society—a group of warriors who showed bravery and leadership from a young age—Tokala is a photography series spotlighting the next generation of BIPOC climate activists. Here, in part three, meet two activists working on the eastern shores of Canada and the US to improve water and food security within their own communities and far beyond.
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