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Fashion has a long-time shitty habit of cultural appropriation, especially with regards to Native American & indigenous cultures. That's how you wind up with "Navajo" print phone cases being sold at Urban Outfitters or some such bullshit.
Actual Native artisans, however, are readily available to us, thanks to the internet. L. Thunder Voice Eagle is an artist and hat maker, creating hats in the Navajo brim tradition. These hats have an iconic shape, and you will immediately recognize them from every modern Western you've ever seen. They are each unique, handmade, and around the same price you'd pay for any other well-made hat. And buying these hats supports a Native artist instead of Ripoff.com, which really benefits us all as a collective in the end.
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