Scott Wabano, a two-spirit Indigenous fashion designer who grew up in a small northern Ontario reservation, took over one of the most important fashion runways in the world when they made their debut at New York Fashion Week earlier this month.
Earlier this month, Jazz Moise took his love of fashion to a much bigger stage: New York Fashion Week. Moise was one of the models representing Scott Wabano, a Toronto-based streetwear designer whose genderless clothes showcase and celebrate Indigenous LGBTQ2S+ identities.
While signing a series of memorandums of understanding Tuesday in Chisasibi, Cree Grand Chief Mandy Gull-Masty reiterated her desire for a concentrated and regional commitment to strengthening the Cree language and culture.
The 26-year-old traveled to the Vatican, along with Quebec Cree Grand Chief Mandy Gull-Masty, as part of an Indigenous delegation of First Nation, Inuit and Métis knowledge keepers, survivors, elders, leaders and youth.
The Quebec Cree Nation is in deep discussions and consultations both internally, with Quebec and with mayors from surrounding non-Cree towns, about how to manage and protect one of its most precious and emblematic resources the moose.