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Louis Gong & Custom First Nations Vans
By Tamiko Ogura
Nurtured by his paternal Chinese grandfather and his Nooksack grandmother between Ruskin, B.C., and the Nooksack tribal community in Washington State, Louis Gong is both a cultural activist and an emerging artist. Blessed with a mixed heritage of Nooksack, Squamish, Chinese, French, and Scottish, Louis Gong is the president of MAVIN Foundation, a leading American organization for mixed heritage people and their families; serves on the Executive Committee for the Washington State Native American Higher Education Consortium (WSNAHEC); as well as custom designing First Nations designs on Vans shoes at 8thGen (Eighth Generation).
On day in March 2009, Louis Gong started decorating his plain grey Vans with a sharpie: "My cultural influences just came out." His Coast Salish art-inspired Vans has now formed a popular following, with Gong receiving kudos from Steve Van Doren, son of Vans founder Paul Van Doren, and Sam McCracken, Nike's Native American business manager.
MORE: Louis Gong & 8thGen | Old world meets new: First-Nation fashion melds the past with the present by Janine Falcon @ Metro Canada | Off the Wall: All Things Vans | Multiracial Americans surge in number, voice @ msnbc.
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