Eighth Generation By Louie Gong

My name is Louis Gong. I'm a Nook Zap tribal member and I'm also the founder of B-E-T Generation. It's a small company that I founded just by drawing cultural art on shoes. When I recognized that doing that wasn't such a great way to make a living, I started putting my art on products. That was really effective and once I realized that was going to be successful, I started helping other artists do the same thing. And so we've opened this beautiful shop, a pike place market, and we're the first native owner company to ever offer a wool playing base. Hey everybody, welcome to the 8th generation store of the pike place market. My name is Louis Gong. I'm the owner and I'm from Tijuana. One of the things that we It's made out of maple, we And so we have a real broad range of phone cases. Some of them are as simple as a full color print on wood, and others have up to seven, eight, nine separate pieces and inlays on them. We also have beautiful 100% wool and 100% silk scarves. These ones right here are my favorite. These are the ones that I rock. The star that we do are our wool blankets. We have 100% wool blankets, All of them are designed by native artists, and the majority of them have really compelling stories behind them. 8th generation is an important company because we're an ethical alternative to the thousands of products you see on the shelf that feature fake native art. I really And I think each generation exists at the intersection of all those things. And by bringing all those energies together, I feel I'm very proud.