What is Quannah ChasingHorse known for?

Posted by Chauncey Koziol on Friday, August 16, 2024

Quannah Rose is currently 20 years, she was born on Navajo Nation territory in Tuba City, Arizona where her mother was studying at the time, Chasinghorse is Hän Hwëch’in of Eagle Village, Alaska, on her mother’s side and her father is Nathan Chasing Horse from the Sicangu-Oglala Lakota of the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Chasinghorse spent her early childhood in Arizona, Mongolia, and New Mexico before returning to her maternal homelands in Alaska at the age of six. She lived in Kenny Lake and then Fairbanks. She attended Effie Kokrine Charter School.

What is Quannah ChasingHorse known for?

Quannah Rose Chasinghorse-Potts is an Indigenous American model. She appeared on the 2020 Teen Vogue list of Top 21 under 21. Chasinghorse is a fourth-generation land protector for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as part of the Alaska Wilderness League. She said she does not want future generations to have to keep fighting. At age 17, she sat on the International Gwich’in Youth Council, traveling to Washington, D.C., New York, and Colorado.

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