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 Blog # 6 Indigenous Fashion Jamie Okuma  I choose Jamie Okuma, born 1977 is a visual artist and fashion designer from California. She is well known for her beadwork. She has mixed - media soft sculpture, and fashion design. She is Luiseno and Shoshone- Bannock. She has won 6 best in show awards, three from the Heard Indian Market, three from the Santa Fe Indian Market in Mexico. And many, many more awards and honors. Jamie lives in CA. with her family, was encouraged by her mother to learn beadwork as a teenager she beaded her own dance regalia.  www.askart.com/artist/Jamie_Okuma/11329328/Jamie_Okuma.aspx Below is example of Jamie's beadwork boots, in her interviews these work of art comes from her vision and her passion  is her beadwork. She is hitting the runways with her butterfly eagle pattern which is so elegant design. She uses her  family member for her models. Her net worth is somewhere from 1 - 5 million.

 Bzindan: Indigenous Music Review Song # 1 Tyler Dettloff Title: Thunder Burnt I liked the music; his short video was very powerful for it only being less than 4 minutes he seems to put a lot of negative stereotypes and make them positive. inspiring hope that a person can change. He appears to be a good musician one I could listen to more often. Song # 2 The Band Title: The Weight I really like the older band they were more original; I feel there was more heart and soul the artist worked with their talents, voice and their ability to play instruments even the talent of the back-up singers. No computer-generated music all orthotic. I realize these songs are lam to the younger generation, but without band like this music wouldn't be where it is today. It makes you stop and think of the struggle's musician had there been no internet to modify the quality and sound of the music, but they still managed to product hits and sell record. Song # 3 Emma Stevens Blackbird Emma song was ex...

 Blog #5 Tradition Art Revitalization It's very important to revitalize culture in any form rather it's through art, music, storytelling and to keep tradition alive. Through these arts we can continue to keep the story alive, along with the tradition we must incorporate the contemporary, through digital, social media and language.  Some of the barrier is that we need to tap into our elders and spend time to learn the stories and the art. Encourage more schools, colleges to incorporate Native Arts, share websites, YouTube all of the media platforms. Make people aware the Natives people are alive and thieving, awareness the changes need to take place and it starts within us. I totally loved our Black Ash Basket Workshop, I learned so much more this workshop, and can't wait for the next one. I can't believe the beauty in this art. Basket weaving is very relaxing once you get the hang of it. Loved how everything was laid out for us, instructing was kept simple, so they were...