Too often Indigenous people aren't represented fairly in media. Today, I am sharing artists, designers, bands, and businesses for us to check out!
And if any Indigenous people run across this, you are not alone. You are loved, enough, worthy, and deserve life.
Fashion:
Beauty/ skin care:
Sicangu Lakota and Chippewa Cree custom cosmetics
Authors and singers:
Louise Erdrich author
Zitkála-Šá was a Yankton Dakota Sioux writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist
Taboo (rapper) Jaime Luis Gomez
Redbone (band)
Tommy Orange Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations of Oklahoma author
Robby Romero
Votan Henriquez artist
Sihasin (meaning hope) is the rock duo of siblings Jeneda and Clayson Benally are from the Diné Navajo Nation in Northern Arizona.
Will Wilson-Diné photographer
Jay Red Eagle
Jay Red Eagle is a Native American flautist and artist whose businesses include lines of music clothing called Nashville Threads and M.T. Medicine Bottle.
Drezus- Indigenous Canadian rapper and activist
Buffy Sainte-Marie was a writer of protest songs and love songs, many of which became huge hits for artists such as Elvis, Barbara Streisand, Neil Diamond (Credit: Buffy Sainte-Marie youtube channel)
You got to run (Spirit of the wind)
DJ Shub
Snotty nose rez kidship hop duo
Athletes
Movies
Things to keep in mind:
Never assume someone isn't Native/Indigenous (or any race for that matter) just because of the way they look. There are over 500 tribes and each is unique and diverse.
These Indigenous songs, books, art, businesses etc deserve all the love and support we can give .
