Mary Big Bull-Lewis

https://www.wenatchiwear.com/

 

ABOUT WENATCHI WEAR

Local Indigenous authentic threads designed with a purpose, creating awareness & empowering Indigenous Peoples. 

 

Our designs are created by my little red hands, beginning with original hand sketches produced on p'squosa homelands. 

 

Our passion is art, community and growing small businesses. Husband & wife team who own and operate a local graphic design business, R Digital Design, in the Wenatchee Valley since 2013. We are able to put our professional skills & knowledge into marketing and brand development. If you see a display, signage you like, we can produce the same high quality products for your brand. 

 
 

We design with purpose 

Each of our designs has a story behind it, with the emphasis of our designs continuing to share local Native American history, tribal tales, and general knowledge. 

 

We believe in creating a product everyone can be proud to represent. We are passionate about preserving Native American history & culture in North Central Washington and are able to accomplish this through a contemporary  creative process, while reaching a broader range of people through wearable art. 


 

Wenatchi Wear is located on the p'squosa (Wenatchi) homelands and is a Pacific Northwest clothing company created by an Indigenous woman who is passionate about art, culture, nature and quality apparel. We believe in building a clothing brand that creates pride & community while focusing on amplifying local Native American tribes. We specialize in apparel for men & women: t-shirts, tank tops, snapbacks, hoodies, stickers, and more. 
 

We design with a purpose. 

Each design begins with a hand sketched design by Wenatchi Wear owner, Mary, and in house graphic design skills are utilized to create multiple merch platforms. Our designs share unique stories about geographical areas, local Indigenous tribes & are produced on high quality products, creating authentic threads.
 
The majority of our designs are limited. We will have release dates throughout the year, you can sign up for our newsletter to receive notifications of when new lines are dropping, and that will include preorder info. All new designs/products are initially preorder & typically ship within 2 weeks after the end of the release. After our first print run, we have limited quantities and sizes available. 
  
The Wenatchi Tribe, originally known as p'squosa. The p'squosa lived along the Wenatchee River, which flowed from the Cascades into the Columbia. The Wenatchi Tribe is part of the Colville Confederated Tribes. The Twelve Bands compose the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation:
Chelan, Chief Joseph Band of Nez Perce, Colville, Eniat, Lakes, Methow, Moses-Columbia, Nespelem, Okanogan, Palus, San Poil, Wenatchi


 

We promote Inspired Native art

Purchasing authentic art from Indigenous artists empowers Indigenous Communities. Native inspired or other art that is not authentically made by Native Artists presents a barrier to Native Art Entrepreneurs who must compete with shelf space already dominated by non-Native companies mass producing product featuring appropriated art. While socially conscious consumers who appreciate Native themes and aesthetics, with even tribal communities themselves purchasing these products without conscious awareness of how their patronage either support or undermines the work of Indigenous Artists and Entrepreneurs. 


 

Wenatchi Wear's designs & products are not affiliated with any tribal governance. 

All designs are the intellectual property of R Digital Design dba Wenatchi Wear.