
May your moccasins leave many cunning footprints in the snow.Īnd when you look over your shoulder, may you always find the Rainbow.īrenda Schad is a Native American model and actress. May Heaven’s warmest winds blow gently there,Īnd may the Great Spirit bless all those you love, And we both have Scottish blood and Cherokee I have always been a lightĭrinker and have never done drugs.

Maplewood High School in Nashville, Tennessee. Synchronicity, I learned that Rita Coolidge and I went to the same high school, She chose to moveĪway from the hard-living lifestyle by going solo. Lifestyle "scared me to death" and made her want to go home. She was not into alcohol and drugs, and she said in an interview that the After she graduated fromįlorida State in the late 1960s, Rita lived in Memphis for a year then went toĬalifornia where she recorded with Delaney and Bonnie. She sometimes sings "Amazing Grace" inĬherokee! She has also recorded with the Voices of the Creator’s Children, aĮven created a Native American music trio, Walela. Multiple Grammy winner Rita Coolidge is part Scottish and available on iTunes andĪnd may it always be beautiful before you, She isĬurrently releasing her music through Miss Molly Records. Steeped in R&B and gospel roots, which introduced her to the mainstream. She is a two-time GRAMMY nominee and nine-time NAMMY winner. Lumbee and Tuscarora descent, originally from Robeson County, North Carolina. Jana Maria Mashonee, born Jana Maria Sampson, is a Native American of When you are disconsolate, I will wipe the tears from your eyes.Īnd when you are too sad to live, I will put your aching heart to rest.

I will love you like my own brother, my own blood. Yet a little longer we will walk life's sunlit paths together. I will extract the thorns from your feet. The model in the photograph below is Simha Victoria, from an article "The Legend She served as its president until her death in National Council of American Indians in 1926 to lobby for rights to AmericanĬitizenship and civil rights. Hanson, Red BirdĬo-composed the first American Indian opera, The Sun Dance (in a romantic styleīased on Ute and Sioux themes), which premiered in 1913.

Her later books inĮnglish brought traditional Native American stories to a widespread white The majority culture and her Native American heritage. Several works chronicling her youthful struggles with identity and pulls between Her name translates as "Red Bird." She was a Sioux writer,Įditor, musician, composer, violinist, teacher and political activist. Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938) was also known by the missionary-given name Gertrude (Inuit), LaDonna Harris, Dahteste, Betty Mae Jumper, Senora Lynch, Sarah Winnemucca, Susan LaFleshe, Ella Cara Warrior), Tashenamani (Moving Robe), La Malinche, Shawnadithit, Apelagiu Running Eagle (Blackfeet warrior), Colestah, Buffalo Calf Robe (Cheyenne Velma Wallis (Athabaskan), Susan Power (Sioux), Fallen Leaf (Crow warrior), (Mohawk), Lozen (Apache), Irene Bedard (Inupiaq), (a ballet group), Polly Cooper, Louise Erdrich (Chippewa), Kateri Tekakwitha (White Swan), Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree), Padma Lakshmi, Crystal Gale, Maria Tallchief (Osage) Jana Mashonee, Brenda Schad, Simha Victoria, Lori Blondeau and Rita Coolidge.Ĭoming soon: Pocahontas, Sacagawea (Shoshone), Pretty Flower (Iroquois), Ada Deer, Mary Brave Bird,Īmanda Blackhorse, Te Ata Fisher, Sheila Hollow Horn, Alex Rice, Tantoo Cardinal, Higua Nancy Ward Universe).īeautiful women of Native American origin or extraction with pictures and bios below include: Zitkala-Ša (Red Bird), Winoa LaDuke (environmentalist and executive director of Honor the Earth),Įlouise Cobell (also known as Yellow Bird Woman, she was a tribal elder andĪctivist who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom), and Ashley Callingbull-Burnham Susan La Flesche Picotte (the first Native American to earn a medical degree), Noncommercial purposes, but please credit the translators.įamous Native American women in American history include Pocahontas, Sacajawea,Ĭhief Wilma Mankiller, Maria Tallchief (the first Native American primaīallerina), Chief Pine Leaf (a Crow warrior), D r. NOTE: The Native American poems and blessings on this page can be shared freely for

The Best Native American Blessings, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings, Shoshone, Sioux, Ute, Yaqui, Yup'ik and Zuni, among other tribes. Inuit, Inupiat, Iroquois, Lakota, Lumbee, Mojave, Navajo, Nez Perce, Osage, Pawnee, Pima, Who are the most beautiful Native American women of all time? Native American Women can be Apache, Blackfeet, Cherokee, Cheyenne,Ĭhickasaw, Chippewa, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek, Crow, Fox, Hopi, Huron, Beautiful Native American Women: Apache, Blackfeet, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chicasaw, Chippewa, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek, Crow, Fox, Hopi, Huron, Inupiat, Iroquois, Lakota, Lumbee, Mojave, Navajo, Nez Perce, Pawnee, Pima, Pubelo, Seminole, Shawnee, Sioux, Ute, Yaqui, Yup'ik, Zuni The HyperTexts
