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This wraps our extra round of spotlighting the California Indian Dreamin' Issue, and we could not be more grateful for how it has been received. If you still have not picked up your copy, this is your sign.

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An OG of Native fashion is back. Ten years ago, Karuk designer Marcie Bain made history at San Diego Fashion Week as the first designer to ever cast every single model as Native American. She's back this year under her label B.JASH.I., rebuilding with the same discipline that carried her to national powerlifting records in her fifties. "Change the plan, but never the goal," she says of the comeback. Read her full story in the California Indian Dreamin' Issue, free online or in print, and keep an eye out for her new collection this fall.

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Thirty years ago the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center opened its doors. This year we celebrated that milestone with an entire issue built around the leaders and artists carrying that legacy forward, including insight from Dr. Joely Proudfit and Nicole Myers-Lim. Read the full California Indian Dreamin' Issue free online or order your print copy today.

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If you have not read the profiles on Leah Mata Fragua and Tiffany Wolfe yet, now is the time. Two different paths, two different mediums, one shared thread of creativity and innovation. Both featured inside the California Indian Dreamin' Issue, free to read online or in print.

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Every page of the California Indian Dreamin' Issue carries a visual language all its own, shaped in part by photographer Cara Romero. Her work captures presence, pride, and power in a single frame. See it for yourself, free to read online or available in print.

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📸: "Naomi" from Romero's series titled "First American Girl," which featured artist Leah Mata Fragua's Naomi Dress she made for her daughter.

🌴💚The California Indian Dreamin' Issue has become one of our best-selling issues yet, and we are not done celebrating it. We're keeping the spotlight on the stories, the artists, and the culture that made this issue unforgettable. Read it free online or add the print edition to your collection.

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Formline carving. Yurok beadwork. Reclaimed streetwear. As America's 250th year continues, three Native American designers remind us that sovereignty isn't an abstract idea, it's what they choose to create in every single day. Now that's freedom.

Catch the full roundup on our website - https://nativemaxmagazine.com/what-sovereignty-looks-like-three-designers-on-reclaiming-rebuilding-and-wearing-identity/.

📸: Jennifer Younger Designs; photo by Caitlin Blaisdell

Dr. Joely Proudfit has seen the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center evolve and grow.

She is Payomkawichum. A scholar. A storyteller. And a mother who brought her daughter Piper into a space that was built, deliberately, for people exactly like them.

In the California Indian Dreamin' issue, Dr. Proudfit reflects on what the museum has protected above everything else:

'Dignity. There were years when the dominant narrative about California Indians was one of erasure, as if we were already gone, already history. CIMCC stood in the middle of that and said no. We are here. We are contemporary. Our cultures are living.'

Thirty years of that. In one building. In one community.

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"I'm taking my own piece of the American Dream and riding off into the sunset with it." Jeremy Arviso on flipping the Polo Pony into something entirely his own, one small part of our roundup on what design sovereignty looks like as America marks 250 years. Read about it here: https://nativemaxmagazine.com/what-sovereignty-looks-like-three-designers-on-reclaiming-rebuilding-and-wearing-identity/.

Photo: Kelly Holmes.

Before we turn the page, we want to say this one more time.

The California Indian Dreamin' issue is Native Max at our fullest. The stories inside these pages, the fashion spread, the 30-year museum, the mothers and daughters, none of it was an accident.

This is what happens when California Indian women get the space they have always deserved.

Shoshoni Hostler. Tiffany Wolfe. Marcie Bain. Leah Mata Fragua. Nicole Myers-Lim. Dr. Joely Proudfit.

Their daughters.

Tillie Myers Hardwick, who dreamed all of this first.

The issue is still live, still free, still available in print.

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