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List Of Native American Women Artists
Native American women in the arts include the following notable individuals. This list article is of women visual artists who are Native Americans in the United States. The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 defines "Native American" as those being enrolled in either federally recognized tribes or certain state-recognized tribes or "an individual certified as an Indian artisan by an Indian Tribe." This list does not include non-Native American women artists who use Native American themes or motifs in their work. Additions to the list need to reference a recognized, documented source and specifically name the tribal affiliation according to federal and state lists. List of Native American artists, Native American artists are part of the List of Indigenous artists of the Americas, Indigenous artists of the Americas. Basketry *Linda Aguilar (born 1946), Chumash people, Chumash basket maker who incorporates non-traditional materials *Elsie Allen (22 September 1899 – 31 December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Native American Women In The Arts
Native American women in the arts are women who are from Native Americans in the United States, Indigenous peoples from what is now the mainland United States who are visual art professionals. Women in Native American communities have been producing art intertwined with spirituality, life, and beauty for centuries. Women have worked to produce traditional art, passing these crafts down generation by generation, as well as contemporary art in the form of photography, printmaking, and performance art.Farris, Phoebe. (2005). Contemporary Native American women artists: visual expressions of feminism, the environment, and identity. ''Feminist Studies'', 31(1), 95-109. 19th century Edmonia Lewis, an African American-Ojibwe sculptor during the mid-1800s, began her studies at Oberlin College, a college known as the first in the United States to admit African American students. It was there that Lewis changed her Ojibwe name Wildfire due to discrimination and pressure she felt from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Yvonne Walker Keshick
Yvonne Walker Keshick (born October 19, 1946, as Binaakwiikwe, or Falling Leaves Woman) is an Anishinaabe quillwork artist and basket maker. Life Keshick was born in 1946 in Charlevoix, Michigan, as an enrolled citizen of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. She descended from many generations of Odawa/Ojibwa quillworkers. Her great-aunt Anna Odei'min is one of the best-known WPA Arts and Crafts Project artists. Keshick became an apprentice of Susan Shagonaby (daughter of Mary Ann Kiogima) in 1969. Shagonaby taught Keshick "from scratch", using cleaned quills fresh off a rotting porcupine. Shagonaby later became the director of the Chief Andrew J. Blackbird House. Keshick began quilling full-time in the 1980s. She resides in Petoskey, Michigan. Work Keshick is a basket-maker and quillworker. She uses porcupine quills, sometimes supplemented by other natural materials such as birch bark and sweetgrass in the decorative articles she creates. It can take a year f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Aguilar Family
The Aguilar Family is a Native American family of potters from Santo Domingo Pueblo (currently known as Kewa Pueblo), New Mexico, United States. The group consisting of two sisters, Felipita Aguilar Garcia, Asuncion Aguilar Cate, and their sister in law, Mrs. Ramos Aguilar. Their pottery work together became known as Aguilar pottery, however they are sometimes referred to as the Aguilar Sisters. History In the early 1900s, pottery creation at Santo Domingo Pueblo had experienced a significant decline. In 1910, Julius Seligman, who worked at the Bernalillo Mercantile Company near the pueblo, noticed the decline in the sales. At his suggestion, the two sisters, Felipita Aguilar Garcia, Asuncion Aguilar Cate, and their sister in law, Mrs. Ramos Aguilar attempted to revive the dying art. The three women worked together making pottery and their work became known as "Aguilar pottery." The Aguilar sisters made traditional polychrome ollas, jars and dough bowls with several different s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Simnasho, Oregon
Simnasho is an unincorporated community in Wasco County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It lies at the intersection of Simnasho Road, Wapanitia Road, and Simnasho–Hot Springs Road within the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. The name comes from a Sahaptin language word meaning ''black hawthorn bush''. A post office named ''Sinemasho'' was established here in 1886 but closed in 1887. A post office named ''Simnasho'' opened here in 1894 and operated, "with one intermission" through 1954. Simnasho was the reservation's seat of government, in the form of a Federal agent, until near the end of the 19th century, when the agency headquarters was relocated to the community of Warm Springs. Simnasho has had a school at various times since 1874, but the most recent grade school closed in 1999. Government The reservation became self-governing in 1938. An 11-member tribal council is the main governing body for the reservation, which is divided into three districts—Simnasho, Agency, and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Emily Waheneka
Emily Waheneka (1919–2008) was a Native American artist, of Warm Springs, Wasco and Paiute tribal heritage. Waheneka is a beadworker in the Sahaptin traditions, her original designs embody the Warm Springs tradition."National Women's Caucus for Art Conference." Bellevue Art Museum, ''WCA Honor Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts'', 1993, pp. 2–29. The Sahaptin peoples include the confederated tribes on the Yakima, Warm Springs, and Umatilla reservation. During her lifetime, she was influenced by her mother and grandmother's beadwork, and was an active participant in Waashat religion, community, and culture. She is known for her beadwork and other sewn crafts. The range of her work included beaded contoured bags, tobacco pouches, ceremonial buckskin dancing attire such as wing-dresses and ribbon shirts, as well as designs for Pendleton coats. By 1805, beads, which were introduced by Europeans, played an important role in the local trade economy for many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Northern Arapaho
The Wind River Indian Reservation, in the west-central portion of the U.S. state of Wyoming, is shared by two Native American tribes, the Eastern Shoshone (, ''meaning: "buffalo eaters"'') and the Northern Arapaho (). Roughly east to west by north to south, the Indian reservation is located in the Wind River Basin, and includes portions of the Wind River Range, Owl Creek Mountains, and Absaroka Range. The Wind River Indian Reservation is the seventh-largest American Indian reservation in the United States by area and the fifth-largest by population. The land area is approximately , and the total area (land and water) is . The reservation constitutes just over one-third of Fremont County and over one-fifth of Hot Springs County. The 2000 census reported the population of Fremont County as 40,237. According to the 2010 census, only 26,490 people now live on the reservation, with about 15,000 of the residents being non-Indians on ceded lands and the town of Riverton. Tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Eastern Shoshone
Eastern Shoshone are Shoshone who primarily live in Wyoming and in the northeast corner of the Great Basin where Utah, Idaho and Wyoming meet and are in the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People. They lived in the Rocky Mountains during the 1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition and adopted Plains horse culture in contrast to Western Shoshone that maintained a Great Basin culture. The Eastern Shoshone primarily settled on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, after their leader, Washakie signed the Fort Bridger Treaty in 1868. Pohogwe, Pohoini, Sage Grass people, Sagebrush Butte People), mixed Shoshone- Bannock band, living in southeastern Idaho on the Snake River Plain, in the Wind River Range, Salmon Falls on Snake River and wintered in the vicinity of the trading post Fort Hall, but also claimed the Camas Prairie as home, later called Fort Hall Shoshone or "Sho-Bans" Contemporary tribes and communities * Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation of Utah ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sarah Ortegon HighWalking
Sarah Ortegon HighWalking is a Native American visual artist, dancer, and actor. She is an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation and a Northern Arapaho descendant. Her work has been presented at the Denver Art Museum, and she danced at the opening of Jeffrey Gibson's installation at the 60th Venice Biennale, in which she was also the subject of video art by Gibson. Early life and education Ortegon Highwalking was born in Denver, one of 12 children. As a child, she spent summers on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. She began attending powwows at age three, and learned jingle dress dance through observation. Ortegon graduated from Metropolitan State University of Denver in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in fine art. After graduating from university, she attended the National Outdoor Leadership School which enabled her to travel to Alaska. There she hiked, for several months off-trail in the Chugack Mountains and also sea kayaked. She late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dakota People
The Dakota (pronounced , or ) are a Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribe (Native American), tribe and First Nations in Canada, First Nations band government in North America. They compose two of the three main subcultures of the Sioux people, and are typically divided into the Eastern Dakota and the Western Dakota. The four bands of Eastern Dakota are the , , , and and are sometimes referred to as the Santee ( or ; 'knife' + 'encampment', 'dwells at the place of knife flint'), who reside in the eastern Dakotas, central Minnesota and northern Iowa. They have federally recognized tribes established in several places. The Western Dakota are the Yankton, and the Yanktonai ( and ; "Village-at-the-end" and "Little village-at-the-end"), who reside in the Upper Missouri River area. The Yankton-Yanktonai are collectively also referred to by the endonym ('Those Who Speak Like Men'). They also have distinct federally recognized tribes. In the past the Western Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nellie Two Bear Gates
Nellie Two Bears Gates ( – 1935) was a Native American artist whose beadwork depicted Yanktonai Dakota history and culture. Beaded suitcases and valises that she gave as gifts are now part of art collections and exhibitions. Early life Nellie Two Bears Gates was born in 1854 on the traditional land of the Yanktonai ''Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna'' Dakota which lay between the Missouri and James River in what is now North and South Dakota. Her Dakota name was Mahpiya Bogawin, meaning "Gathering of Stormclouds Woman". She was the eldest child of Chief Two Bears () and his fourth wife, Honkakagewin. At the age of seven, Nellie was taken from her family and placed in a Catholic boarding school at St. Joseph, Missouri where she stayed for eleven years. At school Nellie excelled academically and became fluent in English and French. In 1863 when she was nine and still at boarding school, her family's village was attacked and destroyed at the Battle of Whitestone Hill. Her father Chief Two Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mabel McKay
Mabel McKay (1907–1993) was a member of the Long Valley Cache Creek Pomo Indians and was of Patwin descent. She was the last dreamer of the Pomo people and was renowned for her basket weaving. She sat on California's first Native American Heritage Commission. Life McKay was born on January 12, 1907, in Nice in Lake County, California. Her father was Yanta Boone (Potter Valley Pomo) and her mother was Daisy Hansen (Lolsel Cache Creek Pomo). She was raised by her maternal grandmother, Sarah Taylor, who taught her the Long Valley Cache Creek language and how to forage for medicinal plants. At the age of eight, she was guided by her dreams to weave her first basket. She did not attend school past the third grade due to a series of illnesses. Basket-weaving McKay claimed that weaving, for her, was a spiritual path rather than a craft. She claimed she was strictly instructed by Spirit as to how and what to weave. Because of the sacred nature of her weaving, she usually wove in pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
