The Anatomy of Native Fashion As Native designers we draw from our traditional stories to create designs that both celebrate our past and create what we wear into the future. This past Friday Heart Berry and the Extremely talented, hard working Buckanaga Social Club collaborated. We pulled our styles together on the runway at the 32nd Annual Minnesota American Indian Chamber of Commerce Dinner in Shakopee. True to television, fashion shows are Highly organized, extremely rushed, full of beautiful models and steaming wrinkles. Make up, dramatic wardrobe changes all go on behind stage while the front of the room enjoys a seamless display of style and grace. And so much of running a business, being an artist is this...
Ten years ago House of Howes began as a tiny beadwork and regalia business. Armed with the Inspired Natives Project we grew into creating the Legacy gifts you know us for. From our beautiful story wool blankets to Ojibwe floral earrings to our custom art work we have grown beyond our wildest dreams. The "Heart Berry" or Ode'imin in our language has been the driving force behind our design and community work. We are so excited to take the next step in our growth into what we have maybe always been, Heart Berry. Our stories tell us that we are the people of the Heart Way. And just like our ancestors we grow, change, evolve, and circle back to our home. Welcome to...
The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission hosts an annual Healing Run along the great lakes. Our Kwepack has participated in the run for over 5 years. We consider it a huge honor to bring a part of our story of running for our Life to this year's T shirt design. This year has brought focus onto our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in incredible and beautiful ways. This year has also brought incredible focus onto Native wellness and onto our Indigenous Running Group the KwePack and the power of taking control of our own narratives. As the trump era and treaty rights tension builds our communities face threats we had hoped and worked to extinguish. The Healing Run runners...
Today in the city of Duluth, rang in by Mayor Emily Larson, the Imagine Duluth team revealed three new innovative public art projects. The utility cabinets in Canal Park, the area's tourist district are now covered in art from House of Howes artist Sarah Agaton Howes, Adam Swanson, and Angel Sarkela-Saur. On the corner of Canal Park Drive and Lake Drive is Howes' piece described as "this piece reflects our story of how we rebuilt our life on the gift of a turtle's back. How would we operate differently if we knew we lived upon a living gift? This great water with the incredible ability to give life also has the great capacity to sweep it all away. Our role...
Ah! thought that would catch your eye. Clicked on it? One time I saw a woman walk towards me and on her feet were the most incredible pair of split toe moccasin I have ever seen. Was she from Canada?? Of course! These beauties were flat, form fitting, simple, and really the holy grail of split toe moccasins. I knew when I saw hers I needed to work on my technique. And they have evaded me. I have been patterning, and sewing, and interviewing, and sewing, and through a series of incredibly informing interviews I have compiled some great intel and techniques. Yet still, they didn't look like hers. Karen Savage was one of my first moccasin teachers. I have...
