# @nowthisoriginals on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=mz6fMwcTpLE
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- **Posted:** 2023-11-23T15:59:55.000+00:00

## Caption

Quannah ChasingHorse is both representing her community and fighting for them as a model and activist. As the climate crisis grows in intensity, she is working to galvanize change and protect her people. #NowThisNext
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Quannah ChasingHorse discusses the intricate challenge of balancing her roles in activism and the fashion industry, merging her advocacy for her Indigenous people, Indigenous activists, Indigenous people, Indigenous tribes with her career as a fashion model. Hailing from Eagle Village, Alaska, with roots in the Hän Gwich’in tribe, as well as connections to the Oglala and Sicangu Lakota tribes from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, ChasingHorse delineates her commitment to serving her people while simultaneously navigating the world of fashion.

In her passionate address, ChasingHorse emphasizes the struggles her community faces due to unprecedented environmental shifts, climate crisis, climate change, and the encroachment of extractive industries, robbing them of their natural rights to clean air, water, and ancestral practices like hunting and fishing. She fervently advocates for climate justice and human rights that have sustained her people for generations.

Amidst her dual responsibilities, ChasingHorse ensures that her actions and representation align with positive change in the fashion industry, steering it towards sustainability. She remains resolute in representing and working with nonprofit organizations, and advocating for her community. Her determination propels her to persist in her work, refusing to let intimidation detract from the power she holds to effect change.

#ClimateCrisis #Alaska #SouthDakota #Representation #Community #Model #Activist #Advocacy #NowThis

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Quannah ChasingHorse on Representation, Climate Exploitation, & Advocacy

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advocacy, nowthis, climatecrisis, alaska, representation, model, nowthisnext, southdakota, community, activist

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