Speak/Sing Native™ Artist Archive

Jim Pepper-Quebec City Powwow circa 1980. Caren Knight Pepper on left.
Powwow singers are Yellowhammer (Ponca)


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Book 1: Place - Oregon/Pacific Northwest

Artists From Oregon Tribes

Pete (Last Walking Bear) DePoe - Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

Quiltman Sahme - Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs

Acosia Red Elk - Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

Jan Michael Looking Wolf - Santiam Kalapuya member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

James Edmund Greeley - Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs / Hopi

Scott Kalama - Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs

Oregon-based Artists from other Tribes

Rick Bartow - Mad River Band of the Wiyot Tribe

Gary Ogan - Cherokee Nation

Jim Pepper - Kaw Nation/Muscogee (Creek)

Artists from Pacific Northwest Tribes

John Angaiak - Yup'ik People

Mildred Bailey - Coeur d'Alene Tribe

Jim Boyd - Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation

Inez Jasper - Stó:lō Nation

Julia Keefe - Nez Perce Tribe

Calina Lawrence - Suquamish Tribe

Katherine Paul - Swinomish, Iñupiaq

Dr. Jacqueline Wilson PhD - Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation

Khu.eex - (Intertribal Band)

Pacific Northwest-based Artists from other Tribes

Dr. John-Carlos Perea PhD - Mescalero Apache Tribe

Jimi Hendrix - Cherokee ancestry

Book 2: Relatives/Relations/Trade Routes, part 1

Rumble - The Indians Who Rocked the World

Link Wray - Shawnee ancestry - guitarist, inventor of the power chord

Maria Tallchief - Osage Nation – America’s first major prima ballerina

Jesse Ed Davis - Kiowa Tribe/Comanche Nation – guitarist, recording artist

Robbie Robertson - Mohak Tribe – bandleader, film/TV soundtrack composer

Joy Harjo - Muscogee (Creek) Nation – U.S. Poet Laureate – 3 terms

Raven Chacon - Diné Navajo Nation – 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Music

“Uncle” Jimi Hendrix - Cherokee ancestry - guitarist, bandleader

Tribute covers of Jimi Hendrix songs - To refer to someone as “Uncle” or “Aunt” or “Auntie” in Indian Country is about respect and honoring.

Micki Free - Cherokee/Comanche - Voodoo Child/Red House/Hear My Train A-Comin’

Derek Miller - Six Nations of the Grand River - Voodoo Child

Mato Nanji - Yankton Sioux - Red House/Hear My Train A-Comin’/ Voodoo Child/Little Wing

Cameron Osceola - Seminole Tribe of Florida - Little Wing/Voodoo Child

Levi Platero - Diné (Navajo) Nation - Little Wing/Third Stone from the Sun/Angel/Red House/Voodoo Child

Stevie Salas - Mescalero Apache - Little Wing

Book 3: Relatives/Relations/Trade Routes, part 2

The Cody Blackbird Band - (Intertribal Band)

Connor Chee - Diné (Navajo) Nation

Rita Coolidge - Cherokee ancestry

Willie Dunn - Mi’kmaq First Nation

Pura Fé - Tuscarora Deer Clan/Taino

The Halluci Nation - (Intertribal Band)

Jeremiah Manitopyes (Drezus) - Plains Cree

Mali Obomsawin - Odanak First Nation

Redbone - (Intertribal Band)

Joanne Shenandoah - Oneida Indian Nation, Wolf clan

Supaman - Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation

John Trudell - Santee Dakota (Sioux) Nation

Frank Waln - Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux Tribe)

Book 4: Relatives/Relations/Trade Routes, part 3

Susan Aglukark - Inuit/Inuk

Delbert Anderson - Diné (Navajo)

Michael Bucher - Cherokee Nation

Gary Farmer - Cayuga Nation/Wolf Clan

Annie Humphrey - Ojibwe

Charly Lowry - Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina/Tuscarora

Jana Mashonee - Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina/Tuscarora

Nataanii Means - Oglala Lakota

R. Carlos Nakai - Diné (Navajo)

Laura Ortman - White Mountain Apache

Joe Rainey - Red Lake Ojibwe

Keith Secola - Anishinaabe (Anishinabek Nation)

Arigon Starr - Kickapoo

Fawn Wood - Cree

Tia Wood - Cree

XIT - (Intertribal Band)

Book 5: The Ancestors

Charlie Patton (1891-1934) - Cherokee Nation

Russell "Big Chief" Moore (1912-1983) - Pima

Oscar Pettiford (1922-1960) - Choctaw

Maria Tallchief (1925-2013) - Osage Nation

Peter LaFarge (1931-1965) - Narragansett

Tommy Allsup (1931-2017) - Cherokee Nation

“Doc” Tate Nevaquaya (1932-1996) - Comanche Nation

Don Cherry (1936-1995) - Choctaw

Floyd Red Crow Westerman (1936-2007) - Sisseton-Wapheton Sioux

Jimmy Carl Black (1938-2008) - Cheyenne Tribe

Richie Valens (1941-1959) - Yaqui

Jim Pepper (1941-1992) - Kaw Nation

Willie Dunn (1941-2013) - Mi’kmaq First Nation

Robbie Robertson (1943-2023) - Mohawk Tribe

Tom Bee (1941-2024) - Diné (Navajo) Nation

Jesse Ed Davis (1944-1988) - Kiowa Tribe

John Trudell (1946-2015) - Santee Dakota (Sioux) Nation

Buddy Red Bow (1948-1993) - Lakota

Randy Castillo (1950-2002) - Apache

Joanne Shenandoah (1958-2021) - Oneida Indian Nation, Wolf clan

Joseph Firecrow (1959-2017) - Cheyenne Tribe

Vince Fontaine (1959-2022) - Sagkeeng First Nation