Fashion Magazine Launches Online Native American

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. Michael Kors Outlet 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 really not a magazine, a native owned and operated, magazine designed natively. Nothing like this magazine is. Who focus on young people, are they really vulgar 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 we show our passports dance this is the site regularly shows how the stereotype of the fair contrast," she said. The nine members of the magazine come from across North America, including the Navajo Nation in Arizona and nations Otomi and Yaqui in Mexico. Director of the announcement and Angelica Gallegos writer, 20, Denver, said she enjoyed learning about the new and fairer and local artists and musicians. "I like the way we want to involve many people in the community and ideas from them," said Gallegos, a member of the Santa Ana Pueblo and Jicarilla Apache tribes. "I also like the aspect about various artists and Aboriginal people across the country, and how they help. Their people in different ways" But LeValdo, professor at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, said it is imperative to survive for each new release of financial assistance. A few years ago one of his students started a music magazine Amerindian, but could not have two issues before it folded. Holmes sought grants and investors but had no luck. She said she spent around $ 1,000 to go to get out of his own money to the magazine, but he hopes to keep advertising and marketing over water, and perhaps even a benefit for the middle of next year. From December, the magazine format, questions goes by mail to subscribers at a price of $ 10 each to print. Max native fewer than 100 participants at the moment, but Holmes said they hope to increase this with fashion events in various locations throughout the country. She said that the obstacles to the attainment of the magazine have launched not clouded his dream of owning a magazine for Native Americans. "There are native, have the talent," she said. "... I want it to be a source of inspiration and to show people, 'Hey, there is someone out there doing the same thing as me. "