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Kenton James (Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska/Cheyenne River) is a musician based out of Flandreau, SD. He started garage rock band the Lilacs in 2004 with his brother Keldon James. In 2012 he formed …

Stuart James is a hip hop artist born & raised in Saint Michael on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota. Hip hop has always been a voice for the oppressed. Life on the reservation can be ugly …

Call for Stories. If you have a scary story, incident, something you can't explain share you story with us. We will select 20 stories from our listener audience to share with everyone.

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Dallas Goldtooth is a Dakota actor, comedian, stage performer and public speaker from the village of Cansayapi within the territory of the Oceti Sakowin people. He has performed on FX’s Reservation D…

Jana Schmieding (Mniconjou Lakota) is a writer, performer living and working in Los Angeles. Drawing from her experiences as a Native woman and feminist, Jana uses her creative work and advocacy to m…

Chad Charlie is an Afro-Indigenous filmmaker from Ahousaht First Nation. Beginning his career in 2008 as a stand-up comedian and spoken word artist, he now extends the same passion for poetry and hum…

Filmmaker Loren Waters is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and the Kiowa Tribe. Focusing her art on the intersection of film and Indigenous storytelling, Loren has a passion for sharing stories that …

Sylvia Houle is an emerging Anishinaabe contemporary artist residing in Rolette, North Dakota. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Born and raised far away from her ind…

Penny Kagigebi, White Earth Ojibwe (1st generation descendant)

A lifelong resident of Becker County, Penny has always lived on or adjacent to White Earth Reservation in Northwestern Minnesota. This is…

Dakota Mace (Diné) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on translating the language of Diné history and beliefs. Mace received her MA and MFA degrees in Photography and Textile Design at…

Brad Kahlhamer’s (b. 1956 Tucson, AZ) art lives at the crossroads of real and imaginary worlds. Born to Native parents and adopted by a German-American family, he was raised in Arizona and Wisconsin …

America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is the publishing editor of First American Art Magazine and an art writer, critic, visual artist, and independent curator, whose curatorial practice spans 28 years.…

Raised on the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, Tyrel is a Hunkpapa Lakota and Ihanktowanna Dakota, with German descent. His upbringing with the strong influence of his Lakota and Dakota ancestry and cultu…

Nancy Marie Mithlo (Chiricahua Apache) is a professor of Gender Studies and core faculty with

the American Indian Studies Interdepartmental program at the University of California, LosAngeles.

Mithlo’…

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Renaissance So…

Tessa Sayers grew up in Washington State on a small llama farm. She is a certified Native artist with her tribe, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa from North Dakota. She has worked within Indian C…

Whitney Fear is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. She was born and raised on the Pine Ridge reservation, where her family has a small cattle operation. After finishing high school in 20…

John Isaiah Pepion is an acclaimed artist, muralist and educator who is a citizen of the Blackfeet

Nation in northern Montana. His plains graphic art combines traditional design and contemporary illus…