RAPID CITY - A publication that will focus on American Indian arts and lifestyles will be launched Tuesday at Rapid City.

Native Legacy magazine will be a quarterly publication that will feature the arts and culture of those who are native to the Great Plains.

Publisher Lila Mehlhaff says she wants to create a magazine that will give people a better understanding of Native America culture.

"I want them to see what we see about our people. I want not only my own kids to be proud of this endeavor, but the reservation youth, or the native youth too," she says.

"I want them to open the magazine and to say: 'That's about me. This is who I am,' and to be proud of it."

Mehlhaff says Native Legacy magazine will be a free publication and will be distributed in the Black Hills and eventually in a six-state region.

Native American actor Moses Brings Plenty, who was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, will be featured on the cover of the first issue.