Capturing the beautiful aesthetic of Indigenous moccasins is something that non-Indigenous footwear brands have trying to recreate for years.
speaking, the footwear was first created and worn by a variety of indigenous tribes across North America, dating back to pre-colonization times.
First, constructions of the shoe varied by geography, reflecting the individual characteristics of each region’s tribes. Someused a single piece of soft hide to cover it, for instance, while Great Plains tribes treated the moccasin as a modern-day outdoor shoe, even using a separate leather sole on the bottom. Nowadays, moccasins are still being made, and are most popularly designed astype.
I’m currently staying back at my parents’ house in Canada, and a quick deep-dive into my childhood bedroom’s closet has unearthed a gold mine: at least five different pairs of handmade moccasins. I’ve been wearing them every single day to work from home in, only occasionally slipping on real shoes to do a quick solo walk around the house. My current favorite pair in the rotation is made by a family friend, Rita Goulais.
Capturing the beautiful aesthetic of these moccasins is something that non-indigenous footwear brands have been trying to re-create for years. While more obvious aspects of Native culture have endured countless cases of cultural appropriation—the Coachella-favored feathered headdress being a prime example of this—moccasins have been more subtly replicated and copied. Brands such as
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