Douglas Miles Junior is one of the scions of a new wave of indigenous skaters fusing their roots in native American culture with the modern movement of skateboarding.

0:00 Intro
1:10 Who Is Douglas Miles Junior?
2:40 How Apache Skateboards Started
5:25 The Apache Skateboards DIY Spot
7:33 Skating The Apache DIY
8:42 Apache Style Art
11:36 Life On The Reservation
12:55 Madars Enrolls In The Tribe
14:33 San Carlos Skatepark
16:44 Apache Skate Culture
18:05 Madars Plays Horse Shoe & Shoots A Bow & Arrow
19:54 Street Skating With The Apache Crew
21:05 Madars Throws A Skate Contest For The Community
23:56 Apache Life
24:42 Apache Ditch Skating
26:00 What Does Skateboarding Mean To Apache?

Born and raised in Arizona´s San Carlos Apache Reservation, he was introduced to skateboarding by his father, the acclaimed fine artist Douglas Miles Sr.

Doug Sr. had started painting on skateboards as a medium and given the groundswell of interest this created, he founded Apache Skateboards, a brand in which the Apache community could recognise a connection to their own culture within this relatively new form of expression.

As a marginalised and often overlooked people, Native Americans have proven incredibly resourceful in developing and nurturing new iterations of their ancient culture, and Doug Junior spent his formative skating years touring other indigenous reservations teaching Native American youngsters how they could become drawn into skate culture without losing sight of their own heritage.

Sometimes, when you can’t find space for your own chapter, you have to rewrite the book.

This Skate Tales is dedicated to skateboarding visionaries:

“We are the music makers/

And we are the dreamers of dreams/

We are the movers and shakers/

Of the world forever, it seems”

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