Wiring the Rez: E-Commerce in Indian Country

What can happen when the broad-reaching power of the internet and the economic potential of e-commerce combine with the creative energy of Native American material culture?

I'm in Arizona right now, attending and participating in the second annual tribal government e-commerce conference. Hosted by ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Indian Legal Program, this two-day conference explores the emerging world of Tribal Digital Sovereignty and the powerful potential of wiring our reservation communities.

Indigenous New Media and Beyond Buckskin

New media, technology, the internet: these things have been vital to the expansion of Beyond Buckskin.

This project began in 2005 as a Master's Thesis to investigate the work of Native fashion. It led to my follow-up Doctoral Dissertation on Native American designers of high fashion. Through my research, I interviewed many individuals, and they told me stories, shared their experiences, both positive and negative, about creating clothing and art for the body.