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Rezmade.com – Business pride grows on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation

"When people think about reservations," HolyWhiteMountain says, "they think about poverty and addiction and domestic abuse and things like that. … I was like, ‘Maybe I can make something that people from Indian Country can be proud of.’ Because it’s so hard to be proud of something when you’re continuously being told that what really sets you apart from the rest of country is a sad history and a bad present. That can be so hard on people’s sense of self."

Hoping to give people in Indian Country something that would allow them to identify proudly with their reservation origins, he decided to print T-shirts that declared "Rez Made" http://www.rezmade.com in all-caps on the front. On the back would be a feather overlaying a circle, broadly symbolizing, he says, "the interdependence of the individual and community."
by Ted McDermott

Full Story: http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/business/Content?oid=1937436

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