Designer Joanne Miles-Long, M.B.A. is San Carlos Apache and Akimel O’Otham. She has continued the art of traditional dressmaking but has expanded her repertoire towards modern-day clothing with the traditional overlay of various embellishments, cuts, and forms typically used in the traditional cloth dresses of her mother and sister, as well as other indigenous nations. The R’s stands for restored, restyled, redesigned, recycled, etc. Thus, no two dresses or articles of clothing will ever be the same. RRR.RAID is a concept of the original cloth dress developed from the raiding that occurred earlier on when the pioneers were coming west for gold and other “goods”. "As we did back then, RAID is still doing today."
