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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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