Artist Profiles

 
 

Clifton Matias (Taino/Quechua)

Located in New York City and Hawai’i

For over 28 years, Clifton Matias (Taino and Quechua), has served as an activist, cultural teacher, photojournalist, and performing artist for the Redhawk Native American Arts Council. Clifton has been serving on the frontlines and addressing many of the issues that Indigenous people face. He has been a part of many major Indigenous milestone events from the 500 year anniversary of Columbus at the United Nations in 1992 to more recently part of organizing the first Indigenous Peoples Day celebration in NYC in 2015. He has also been an instrumental and powerful voice for such causes as Indigenous communities in the Amazon, Standing Rock pipeline protest, Mauna Kea telescope, Oak Flats mining , Sweet Water Prayer Camp, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women epidemic, and serves as an advocate for name changes of sports teams using Native Americans as mascots and other forms of cultural appropriation.

 

General Grant (Lakota / Cherokee)

Artist, Sculptor, Silversmith, Performing Artist, Lecturer

 

Dra. T’Karima Ticitl, PhD, CM, LM, Partera (Xicana Indigenous)

Located: New York & New Jersey

Dra. T'Karima Ticitl, PhD, LM, CM, Partera, is dedicated to the ceremony of birth and peyotl. Dra. Ticitl is a ceremonial woman, active in the Native American Church, Teo Kali Quetzalcoatl and a Mexica dancer since 2001 with her danza group, Kalpulli Huehuetlahtolli.

 
 

Chenae Bullock (Shinnecock / Montauk )

Located in Long Island, New York

Eastern Blanket dancer, singer, eastern Algonquin dancer, water protector, cultural preservationist, and humanitarian.

 

Jessica Martinez Maxey (Afro-Cuban / Spanish / Ecuadorian Cayapa)

Located in New York, NYNative wind instruments, acoustic guitar, and conga

 

Ginew Benton (Ojibwe)

Filmaker, Dancer, Singer

 

Aminah Ghaffar (Lumbee / Black)

Aminah is an Indigenous Advocate and focuses most of her advocacy on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and children, and culturally sensitive methods to treat historical trauma in marginalized populations.

 

Robert White Magpie (Lakota)

Located in Brooklyn NY Traditional and Grass dancer, artist, guitarist, bassist, traditional flute player, actor and model

 

Janene Yazzie (Navajo)

Native American performing artist, consultant and keynote speaker on Native American rights, issues and using Indigenous philosophies as teaching aids

 

Erica Isennock ( Lakota) Erica is a world champion Jingle Dress Dancer, public speaker, artist, educator and renowned beadwork artist. She has traveled around the world presenting programs and sharing her traditions.

 

Martha Redbone (Choctaw / Cherokee / Shawnee)

Website: www.martharedbone.com

 

Katy Isennock (Lakota)

Artist, educator, cultural interpreter, model, champion fancy shawl dancer

 

Johnny Lema (Kechuwa)

Located in Bronx, NY

Traditional Incan Artist lecturer and educator

 

Miriam Gomez (Mayan)

Mayan Weaver, Bead-work, carving and traditional art

 

Raven Matias (Mohawk)

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Traditional Dancer artist and performer

 

Lucero Cavelight (Navajo / Aztec)

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Traditional and fancy dancer & artist

 

Tchin (Blackfoot / Narragansett)

Storyteller, Arts and Cultural Educator

Website: www.tchin.net

 

Ericson Gomez (Mayan)

Mayan Weaver, Bead-work, carving and traditional art

 

Vernon Chrisjohn (Oneida)

Rest In Peace

 

Mark Barfoot

Artist

 

Anton Martinez (Yaqui)

Traditional silver smith

 

Dennis King (Shinnecock / Montauk / Mohegan)

Carver, Sculptor

 

Valerie Rivera (Taino)

Brooklyn, NY Artist, educator, model, actor

 

Dan Loudfoot-Simonds (Mashantucket Pequot)

Artist, Jeweler, Educator, Eastern War Dancer

Website: Wampum Wear

 

Lance White Magpie (Lakota)

Located in Brooklyn, NY.

Traditional and Grass dancer, artist, guitarist, bassist, traditional flute player, educator, actor and model

 

Danielle Oakes (Mohawk)

Writer, graphic designer

 

Daniel Ramirez (Saginaw-Chippewa)

Painter, Illustrator

 

Lauren Peters (Mashpee Wampanoag)

Eastern Blanket dancer, Corn Sister, Mishoon paddler, Cultural Activist

Lauren leads a Corn Sister circle on her ancestral homelands in Mashpee,  MA, teaching and bringing women together around our Three Sisters Garden. Sharing ancestral knowledge and seeds among our women to continue our traditions for the next seven generations.