Alaska teen brings Indigenous excellence to magazine cover May 5th 10:20 pm |
Samantha Davenport, Anchorage Daily News
A familiar face is on the cover of Vogue Mexico s May issue.
In a sheer yellow Valentino dress with dusty pink flowers is 18-year-old Quannah Chasinghorse, from the Native Village of Eagle, her gaze trained on the camera as she stands on a beach two hours south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Chasinghorse - who is Han Gwich in and Oglala Lakota - highlighted her activism and the need for accurate representation in modeling in the cover story, encompassed in a 20-page spread. Becoming a model was always my dream, since I was little, since I was three or four years old, Chasinghorse told Vogue Mexico. I think it s so beautiful
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The PBS Show Celebrating Alaska Native Communities
Athabascan advisers for “Molly of Denali,” left to right, Dewey Kk’ołeyo Hoffman, Rochelle Adams, Adeline Peter Raboff, and the show s original Creative Director Princess Daazhraii Johnson. Seated in front is Tanana Athabascan elder Luke Titus, whose story of surviving boarding school became the inspiration for the first episode, “Grandpa s Drum.”
Photo from Tara Mayes/WGBH
The Indigenous writers and developers of “Molly of Denali” also share their own stories and find healing in the process.
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