Urban Native Magazine is a Native lifestyle magazine that is dedicated to providing the best in Fashion, Arts & Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Business content from all across Turtle Island/North America.
“When we desire to decolonize minds and imaginations, cultural studies’ focus on popular culture can be and is a powerful site for intervention, challenge, and change.”
~ bell hooks
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ission Statement:
Urban Native Magazine strives to be the number one site for the latest in Indigenous Fashion, Arts & Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Business for the Indigenous youth of North America. The site will feature numerous artists, entrepreneurs, and role models to showcase Indigenous talent and to dispel stereotypes. Urban Native Magazine, through its magazine, editorial content, and social media streams will encourage engagement from Indigenous youth to discuss current social, political and pop-culture issues in an accessible environment. We want to create positive change for Indigenous youth across North America. Vision:
Urban Native Magazine aims to offer the best in Indigenous lifestyle coverage for Indigenous youth in North America. Our goal is to motivate and inspire Indigenous youth to dream big and chase their dreams by showcasing the best in Indigenous talent and successful Native people from all over. Urban Native Magazine will also be a place to showcase and foster young Indigenous talent. It will give opportunities for Native writers, photographers, fashion stylists, makeup artists, and graphic designers to get a publication to invest in their talent, give them a chance and allow them to build a portfolio so that they can enter the media industry. "For urban Native mixed-bloods and tribal people to meet, from different current locations but with an acknowledgment of historic connections and to find ways of working together across current differences, could represent another stage of rebuilding the shattered hoops of different nations, a powerful process of decolonization."
~Bonita Lawrence, "Real" Indians and Others:
Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood
