Indigenous Influences

Honor the Indigenous on Thanksgiving | As part of a Thanksgiving celebration, I can recall and relearn all what indigenous people have been through, vote them into office, and work with charities to help them.

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Indigenous Muslims: We Exist | I hope to honor my seemingly forgotten Muslim Native-American identity with this challenge. These roots were with me all along as part of the Fitra; the natural way of being, leaving nature untouched to grow independently. Humans bend nature; crafting wood, weaving fibers, or bending ourselves to fit or stray from society, which bends too. we often don't see our roots until we dig, it feels raw to embrace who you ‘are’ & who you’re always meant to ‘be.’ This podcast talks about indigenous Muslim identity: https://youtu.be/Css09JsmchQ?si=5LPKY9kMY8wivWKD

indigenous fashion labels challenge | jewelry is from the pataxó, marubo and apurinã tribes from brazil. i challenged myself to style these items using only brazilian brands, just for fun :-)

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