Growing up, Quannah Chasinghorse—whose Indigenous ancestry is both Hän Gwich’in (from Alaska and Canada) and Oglala Lakota (from South Dakota)—rarely saw her culture represented in fashion
Growing up, the model Quannah Chasinghorse—whose Indigenous ancestry is both Hän Gwich’in and Oglala Lakota —rarely saw her culture represented in the fashion she voraciously consumed. “I was obsessed with watching runway shows on television—Dior, Chanel, Prada—and I was always posing for pictures,” she says, but because of this lack of representation, “it was really hard for me to feel like I had the potential to be a model.
Armed with her traditional Hän Gwich’in tattoos, the model is at once redefining beauty, honoring a Native practice dating back more than 10,000 years, and challenging the notion that all models should be a blank canvas. Her striking face tattoos—which are called Yidįįłtoo and, in accordance with tradition, hand-poked by a woman, in this case her mother, to commemorate events in one’s life—are proudly displayed as lines on her chin and at the corner of her eyes.
Prior to breaking out as a model, Chasinghorse gained a large following on social media for her activism work—and she’ll continue to use her ever-growing platform to address key issues close to her heart, including climate activism. In the past, she has fought to conserve Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—a vast, 20-million-acre ecosystem that continues to face endangerment due to fossil-fuel extraction.
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