Thursday, October 18, 2012
The Native American fashion magazine launches online
Grew up on the Cheyenne River Indian Reserve, Kelly Holmes spent hours leafing through the latest issue of Vogue or seventeen. She pointed out that the models had no such thing as their stories and little to do with his experiences in the vast, sparsely populated area hundreds of miles from any high-end retailers.
To Holmes, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, decided to create his own fashion magazine towards Native Americans, men and women and non-Native Americans who want to learn more about the culture oriented.
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Max native focuses on indigenous peoples, places and cultures with the same elegant photography in fashion magazines, but without the stereotypical headdresses and tomahawks sometimes seen in the traditional media. The first edition, which is online only, interviews with Native American artists, musicians, designers and models, as well as sections on health, beauty and sports.
"It's run really not a magazine, a native owned and, the magazine designed natively. There is nothing like is this magazine. Concentrate Who on young people, they are vulgar really and very revealing," said Holmes, 21, who now lives in Denver.
The first issue of the quarterly magazine contains Mariah Watchman as a cover model. Guardian, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon, has catapulted famous in Indian country after. "America's Next Top Model", the first Indian woman to competition
While the magazine aims to give to positive role models and inspirational messages, makes it to touch on controversial issues, said Holmes. In the first edition Holmes interviewed two women who started a campaign called Save Project Wiyabe highlight violence against Native women. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates a locals in three women are raped, and physically attacked in four.
Rhonda LeValdo, president of the Native American Journalists Association, said Max show indigenous peoples and other related media on American society that Indians are ordinary people, too.
"They want to be models, movie stars, artists. I think it shows the ordinary side, like the stereotype of fair unlike us show our passports dance," she said.
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