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ABOVE Louie Gong displays his newest blanket design
outside his store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market.
AT LEFT, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Gong
stands in the Eighth Generation studio, where artists
collaborate on designs. Smartphone cases in production—some
simple digital prints, others intricately
hand-assembled. Gong signs a new art print.
The combination of art and chocolate
will be “something you won’t find
anywhere else in the world,” Gong
said—an apt description not just of
the chocolate, but of Eighth Generation
itself.
As more and more people join the
movement to bring awareness to and
stop cultural appropriation while
empowering Native entrepreneurs
and others, the work will get easier,
Gong said.
“We aren’t far off from the tipping
point. Native people are not just here,
we are thriving.”
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