"Hi everybody! I'm Joey Montoya, founder of Urban Native Era clothing company. AMAA!"

Hi Ladyeesti, Thank you! Its been a little different in the sense of having to balance Urban Native Era life with school and work. I want to focus on Urban Native Era all day, but sometimes it is hard to keep up with it.

I hope to spread many messages, but specifically its sharing with the world who we are as Indigenous People and hopefully changing the way people view us in the 21st century. I also want to share the message to our youth that you should do what you love and that you can do it.

Thanks for the questions!

Good question! A nice one is the Mission Multicultural Center! But you are right, it has been struggling but as we come to this new age and era of technology we will start to see it coming back. We hope for it to come back and hopefully in the near future we can help start that! ohhh! I also know they did a photography series with some of our Ohlone Relatives at the SF main Library downtown! But will definitely keep an eye out for this. Thanks for this question!

Before the end of 2012 I know I wanted to do something for our community and spreading the awareness about who we are to the common folks. What inspired me to to create Urban Native Era was the Idle No More movement. I started to travel up and down California taking photos of the Rally's and protests and I need a place to put them. So before the Idle No More movement I was reading a book about Urban Natives and It stuck to me. Thats who I am.After the movement Idle No More was launched, I thought about how a new Era was being brought to the scene.

Working on a photo/video series project on war veterans, people who were relocated, and more. Hopefully releasing a kickstarter for the project in the new year. Also many collaboration with different clothing brands in the near future! We also plan on working with more indigenous artists in music and art! Thanks for the question!

Definitely. Our logo which is called the Diverse Culture logo has a more pacific northwest style but also has artwork styles from all over Native America. When people see that they are like wow thats different. I think what they preconceived ideas of who we are is feathers, headdress, and buck skin. But I never really deal with someone saying this should be like this or that. Native people always ask about the style I use as well, but more non natives are searching for a specific meaning towards the design. I always give them my meaning, but I sometimes see them looking for a more sacred meaning. Thanks for the questions!

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Those are my favorite native owned clothing companies! Definitely check them out!

Hi! Honestly it is coming to events in the community, showing your face, and meeting everyone. We need people like you to help us and show face. Without our non native families Urban Native Era would not be where we are today! Social media has a huge part in it also, so just keeping up with what we are doing through there and inviting your friends to check out our page and other pages like ours is doing a huge amount of work and helping us and the community. Thank you so much!

YES! Megan Red-Shirt Shaw ( Founder of Natives In America), is an amazing person! When she told me about it before it was released and I told her I was all in. Its been amazing sharing our stories through writing. Being able to share our feelings is hard sometimes so this is a perfect way of sharing our thoughts about issues and giving us a VOICE. Its awesome!

The site is dope! and some new stuff is on the way!

I would say move fast and break things kind of person

Lol. Long term

I think being different than any other clothing brand. We have a meaning behind what we do and how we were created. I know there are some brands like that but in Urban settings we see people coming out with brands or a company but just doing it for the money. We do it for the awareness and correct representation of who we are and spreading awareness about issues in our communities.

Thanks dude!

yes! We will be working on restocking on all our pocket t's. Thank you!

I think its awesome! And im really supportive of non natives who understand our culture. Thanks a lot! And ya we definitely hate seeing brands appropriate our culture. Sorry for the late reply. Long day! aha. Thanks again for the question! We appreciate your support!