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Podcast: The Lifted Podcast
Episode: #81: Quannah Rose Chasinghorse - Indigenous Wisdom, Rewriting History, Connecting To Nature
Description: Quannah Chasinghorse is first and foremost an activist for indigenous people, and she has also become a sensation in the modeling world. Her Indigenous ancestry is both Hän Gwich'in (from Alaska and Canada) and Oglala Lakota (from South Dakota). Quannah has wanted to model since she was a young child but rarely saw her culture represented in the fashion she poured over. She says, “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...