History may have forgotten these five indigenous movers and shakers but here at BUST, we're all about the unsung. nativeamericanheritagemonth indigenouswomen notpocohontas
November marks Native American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate and explore the extraordinary cultures, traditions, contributions, and histories of Native American communities and individuals.
ADVERTISEMENT While we’ve covered quite a few Indigenous women on the podcast over the years, the opportunity to research a month’s worth of content really helped shine a light for me on the sheer number of Indigenous women who never make it into our history books, but definitely should. From brilliant artists and performers, to warriors, leaders, activists, and intellectuals, our understanding of history is much less rich and much less accurate in their absence.
Emily’s work is almost immediately recognizable, full of brilliant textures and colors representing the terrain, flora, and fauna of Utopia, her home. Though Emily only ever left her hometown a handful of times over the course of her life, her work has since travelled the world plastered on the bodies of Qantas airplanes and hung in the most prestigious museums and galleries around the globe.Elouise Cobell, whose Blackfoot name was Yellow Bird Woman, was a woman of many talents.
A member of the Tlingit nation, Elizabeth and her husband were trying to find housing in Juneau, Alaska in 1941 when they encountered deep anti-Native discrimination, including a sign on one building that read, “No Dogs, No Natives.” The two drafted an anti-discrimination bill soon after, and then spent the next four years doing everything in their power to let the Alaska public know about the discrimination Native communities faced and to garner support for the passage of their legislation.
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