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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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Print article Alaska’s state-owned economic development corporation on Wednesday agreed to spend up to $20 million to buy leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain in an effort to support future oil exploration and drilling there. The seven-member board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority unanimously granted the corporation’s director permission to bid following 90 minutes of public comments, a two-hour private meeting and a final 30-minute public session. The proposal faced broad public opposition, including complaints that the measure was being rushed through with little public review two days before Christmas. But several board members, in describing their support for the measure, said money from oil that flows from the refuge can support much-needed jobs in Alaska and pay for renewable energy projects that opponents of the investment have said they preferred. ....