YEG Fashion with Passion

02/27/2023

12/30/2022

Just updating everyone.

I have not been active on this site..

However, I am rebranding this into a Model and Talent page.

In partnership with talented Queens, Elizabeth Potskin and Katherine Swampy.

11/14/2022

Why not dlay dress up in my own collection. 🏳️‍🌈

11/13/2022

06/16/2022

2 more days until the youth model workshop!!

💖 Empowerment through Fashion YOUTH Workshop & Fashion Show 💖

Nipîy Iskwew Designs presents “Empowerment through Fashion” Model Workshop and Fashion Show being featured in The Red Road Society’s upcoming “Empowering our Youth Concert Fundraiser” 🥳💖🙌

This confidence building workshop includes:

-How to walk and pose on the runway 💃🏽
-Modelling tips and tricks 🥳
- 2 Digital Headshots (1 full body, 1 close up) 📸
- An exclusive model swag bag including PINK MINK LASHES 💖🛍
-ALL models will walk in an official Nipiy iskwew Designs Fashion Show

Registration Fee: $75
To register: [email protected]

Workshop: June 18th
Fashion Show: June 19th
EDMONTON AB

To register or more info email: [email protected] 👈👈👈

06/07/2022

💖 Empowerment through Fashion YOUTH Workshop & Fashion Show 💖

Nipîy Iskwew Designs presents “Empowerment through Fashion” Model Workshop and Fashion Show being featured in The Red Road Society’s upcoming “Empowering our Youth Concert Fundraiser” 🥳💖🙌

This confidence building workshop includes:

-How to walk and pose on the runway 💃🏽
-Modelling tips and tricks 🥳
- 2 Digital Headshots (1 full body, 1 close up) 📸
- An exclusive model swag bag including PINK MINK LASHES 💖🛍
-ALL models will walk in an official Nipiy iskwew Designs Fashion Show

Registration Fee: $75
To register: [email protected]

Workshop: June 18th
Fashion Show: June 19th
EDMONTON AB

To register or more info email: [email protected] 👈👈👈

04/28/2022

Council Chambers

02/27/2022

By Jeremy Appel (ANNews) – Chevi Rabbit has made a name for herself as a mental health advocate over the years, but during the pandemic...

12/23/2021

Alberta Native News Reporter Chevi Rabbit has an exclusive interview with top political strategist Jacqueline Biollo about her Indigenous ancestry.

By Chevi Rabbit, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Jacqueline Biollo is a mover and shaker in Alberta but also on a human level she...

11/21/2021

09/20/2021

By Chevi Rabbit for Prairie living Magazine
Red Deer Advocate
Please check out my first fashion article for an award-winning magazine.
I had a great opportunity to write about Cree Fashion.
I set up a great photoshoot with Alberta's top Photographer Soko Fotohaus.
I picked three of my fav designers: Rhonda Johnson, Heather Bouchier , and Derek Jagodzinsky.
I also wanted to highlight an up-and-coming entrepreneur Joelle Ward. She created the Cree Beaded Hats worn in the photoshoot.
Maskwacis Models are front and center in the latest edition.
FrontPage features Indigenous Youth Advocate and Model of Montana First Nation - Ceejay Courtright - Currie wearing Cree designer Rhonda Johnson. Up and coming Male Cree Model Gage Saddleback.
Prairie Living Magzine featured a first in Alberta. For the first time a trans female modeled for the magazine. Up and coming trans model Rose Currie made her debut and is wearing Heather Bouchier.
A monumental moment in Cree Fashion In Alberta.
I am so grateful to be able to showcase the best and brightest in Cree Fashion.

September 17, 2021

05/01/2021

😻😻 The new Project Unity interview with local designer Fely Aagader is now out!!!🤩🖤🙌🥳

This months features our series. Please watch, like, share and subscribe to our youtube channel for more content like this!

Reporters: Nîpî Iskwew & Ashford Hamilton
Makeup: Kristen Cookie Munroe
Studio: Univision Productions
Models: Wei Li& Sheena T Kaine

Project Unity interviews local artists who take pride in their culture through their art. Fely Aagader is an Edmonton Designer who has amazing modernized Asi...

04/12/2021

Montana First Nation man creates Infamous Native Clothing line to honour his family.

Vijay Curry started the Infamous Native Clothing company in 2019 with one thought in mind – creating something that would sell so his kids didn’t grow up the way he did.

“I grew up on the streets, and had kind of a rough life of my own”, he tells APTN News. “I didn’t want my kids to grow up like that, so I started this clothing company to try to make something better for them.”

Curry had a rough childhood. His Mother was murdered when he was six years old.

He spent time in foster care, and boarding school.

Curry says he also spent time couch surfing with friends in the United States, and he spent time homeless.

A man from Montana First Nation has created Infamous Native Clothing to honour his mother and missing and murdered Indigenous women.

03/19/2021

02/12/2021

Maskwacis apparel entrepreneurs share brand stories

02/12/2021

She is launching off the success of her advocacy and collaborating with Joe Kootenay and Noland Arcand on raising awareness for Canada’s Missing and Murdered Women in the spring of this year. Chevi Rabbitt reports.

Jacqueline Buffalo is a Cree woman from “Akamihk” (Cree word for Montana First Nation) located in Maskwacis AB. She is a model, actress and MMIW advocate. Over the pandemic, she has become quite popular on the social media app Tik Tok.

01/22/2021

12/07/2020

Pick up my latest column piece on transparency.
My next column will come out in four weeks.
Ponoka News

Across Canada, First Nation millenials struggle with outdated First Nation administrations. Country-wide, many First Nation communities are undergoing major shifts as a new generation of educated youth are taking the lead. Some transitions are easy, some not easy at all and others will need allies,....

12/07/2020

Spill the tea with Rabbit holiday picks. Top Indigenous brand to support in Edmonton, Alberta.
These are the top picks, they are the go-getters. All these entrepreneurs really upsell, create great products, and have an awesome story behind each item. Like it not just another apparel line but a line with a story and brand. That's why I picked these.
These are amazing Indigenous artisans & entrepreneurs .

Helping support Indigenous businesses, artists, and crafters around the holidays are easy. Edmonton is home to some of Canada's best creative minds. The talent is unmistakable and the ideas these entrepreneurs come up with are truly unique.

12/05/2020

Spill the tea with Ms. Rabbit talks with local celebrity Jade Tang, best known for her real-life role as a Triplet.

Spill the tea with Ms Rabbit talks with local celebrity Jade Tang, best known for her real-life role as a Triplet. Jade Tang, is a celebrity triplet from a trio called Tang Triplets. The Trio were first photographed by The Edmonton Journal as the cities first naturally born triplets. They have been....

11/13/2020

The Indigenous Heritage Circle is excited to introduce our new outreach coordinator - Trevor Horne! Trevor will be reaching out to Indigenous communities across Canada to learn about the structure of Indigenous heritage departments and any laws, policies, and frameworks that help to guide their work. We are also interested in hearing about projects you are working on and the sort of capacity building your heritage departments might be interested in.

Does your community not have a specific heritage department? Does heritage fit under health and well-being, education, lands? We'd still love to hear from you!

Trevor can be reached at [email protected] - please see his short biography below and help us to extend a warm welcome to our newest team member!

"Trevor Horne is a proud member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. He is interested in building strong, healthy communities and protecting the heritage of Indigenous Peoples for future generations.

Trevor Horne served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2015-2019, and most recently worked at the Rupertsland Institute, where he worked on a report concerning the services catering and available to Indigenous students at post-secondary institutions through Turtle Island and beyond."

11/06/2020

Recently, Montana Cree Nation has seen an alarming rate of youth su***des. The community is not alone in this struggle. Right across Canada, there is a sense of hopelessness in many First Nation communities. The Statistics Canada report entitled “Suicide among First Nations people, Métis and Inui...

10/29/2020

It’s clear that Edmonton’s Crime Report has gone too far this time. The social media page is known for its clever and dark humor on crime and criminal behavior but Edmonton’s homeless populations aren’t criminals. Their only crime is being poor. Edmonton has a growing class system and Covid-...

10/26/2020

The evolution of self. From newsmaker to news creator.

I am currently being mentored by news organizations in Central Alberta that are giving me a platform as an Indigenous writer.

I am being taught how to write news (Canadian Press Style) and opinion pieces.

I am so excited to be part of Media as a bi-weekly Columnist for Devon Dispatcher. We are a weekly newspaper serving Devon, Calmar, Leduc County and southern Parkland County. The Dispatch publishes every Friday.

Thank you to Georgina Lynn Lightning for being my very first story.

Spill The Tea with Ms. Rabbit talks film industry with Georgina Lightning and her latest project, Trickster.

10/25/2020

Confronting the White Elephant: White Privilege in Social Services
By Brittany Alfarano, MSW

White privilege to a white person is like water to a fish: How are they supposed to recognize it if it's all they know? When I started working one-on-one with clients of color, I preached that I didn't see people for their skin color; I saw them for who they were. I believed wholeheartedly that race did not make us different from one another. I believed I was a better worker because of my beliefs. Little did I know that not only was I blind to such prevalent oppression, but my work with clients was suffering. I was a member of the dominant race, and I didn't see why that mattered.

Privilege can be defined as a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people. White privilege, however, is defined as the collection of benefits based on belonging to a group perceived to be white, when the same or similar benefits are denied to members of other groups. It is the benefit of access to resources and social rewards and the power to shape the norms and values of society that white people receive, unconsciously or consciously, by virtue of their skin color (Kivel, 2002; McIntosh, 1988; Potapchuk, Leiderman, Bivens, & Major, 2005).

Understanding privilege has been an important part of my education, my client work, and my position in the world. It has made me more mindful of the way I am treated and how people consider me. It has given me a new perspective on the way the world operates. Learning how my race, gender, sexuality, language, citizenry, religion, and appearance have affected me was a difficult process. Like many others, these were just characteristics that defined who I was and I thought little about the advantages they would impart.

National newsmagazine committed to enhancing the entire social work profession by exploring its difficult issues, new challenges, and current successes.

10/22/2020

Right now there many opportunities for indigenous actors. Did the world get kinder and more inclusive on its own? Chevi Rabbitt reports.

Edmonton actor Griffin Powel- Arcand is a multitalented artist and model who can be seen walking at Western Canada Fashion Week. He not only can Rap but is a emerging indigenous Canadian star. His latest acting gig puts him on Canadian Primetime Television. He plays the character Dylan in Trickster,...

10/18/2020

Oulette takes center stage on Canadian Primetime television. In His Breakout Role On CBC show “Trickster", That's Redefining Canadian Television. A spot not often reserved for Indigenous actors in a leading role.