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Jessica Metcalfe is a Native American blogger. She is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe in Belcourt, North Dakota.
Metcalfe grew up in Dunseith, North Dakota. [1] Growing up, Metcalfe says racial tensions caused her to avoid wearing clothing that would identify her as indigenous. [1]
She received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and a PhD from the University of Arizona in American Indian studies. [2]
Metcalfe is an advocate for the "Buy Native" movement, which promotes cross-cultural collaborations and aims to give people who admire native fashion a place to buy directly from the original native artist. [3] [4]
In 2009, Metcalfe created her blog, Beyond Buckskin, to share her research about Native fashion online. [1] [2] [3] She started Beyond Buckskin Boutique in 2012, [5] an online store selling works by Native American fashion designers. [3] [6] In 2016, Beyond Buckskin Boutique expanded with a brick and mortar location on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. [1]
She was a managing editor and writer for the International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, and Humanities blog Red Ink Magazine. She was a visiting professor at Turtle Mountain Community College and the Arizona State University from 2011-2012, where she taught Native American studies, studio art, art history, literature, and anthropology. [7]
Metcalfe has spoken about her journey in the fashion industry and Native American issues at Ohio State University, Brown University and the University of North Dakota. She has also presented at numerous national conferences, including the Entrepreneurship and Indigenous Art Conference, the Smithsonian and Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, [8] and co-curated exhibitions. Her current work focuses on Native American art, clothing, and design from the past to modern times, with an emphasis on contemporary artists.
In 2013, Metcalfe organized the Native American Fashion Show for the Idyllwild Arts Foundation Theatre in Idyllwild, California. [9] That same year, she curated an exhibit on Native fashion at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico. [10]
In 2015, she was an advisor for the Peabody Essex Museum's Native Fashion Now exhibit. [11]
In 2017, she appeared in the September issue of Glamour magazine. [1]
In 2012, Metcalfe moved to Gardena, North Dakota. [1]
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