Why produce an all-American Indian swimsuit calendar in the first place?
When you look at main stream media, you see White, Black, Hispanic and Asians, but where are the Native Americans? For years we have heard our models and actors say they can’t get jobs in the entertainment industry because they are still perceived as buffalo hunters, and just out of the teepee in their buckskin dress. All we are doing by producing a swimsuit calendar is evening the playing field a little and giving our models who want to pose in swimwear the opportunity and forum to do so. Why not have equal opportunities for our Indian women? Our cover model, Jamie Vondal-Everett took the calendar around to agencies in Los Angeles and just got signed with the same agent that handles successful models Brooke Burke and Nikki Ziering. This calendar is being used as a stepping stone for the beautiful women in it who want to further their modeling and acting careers. Until main stream media can see us as something other than savages and buckskin wearing teepee dwellers, we will never get f
