Jim Pepper

Jim Pepper

male, deceased (1992)
Jazz fusion musician, Avant-garde jazz musician, cancer death, Oregon musician, timbre, NativeAmericanChurch…American Indian Movement, Night of the First American, Native American, American
Jim Pepper (b. Salem, Oregon, June 18 1941; d. Portland, Oregon, February 10 1992) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and singer of Native...
Mountain Wolf Woman

Mountain Wolf Woman

female, deceased (1960)
from Wisconsin, Native American, peyote, NativeAmericanChurch, Ho-Chunk, Nancy Lurie
Mountain Wolf Woman, or <b>Kéhachiwinga</b>;, was a Native American woman of the Ho-Chunk tribe. She was born in April 1884 into the Thunder Clan i...
White Parker

White Parker

male, deceased (1956)
religious figure, NativeAmericanChurch, Comanche tribe, Native American, Methodist, Mah-Cheeta-Wookey
White Parker was a son of Mah-Cheeta-Wookey and Quanah Parker, chief of the Comanches. He married Laura E. Clark (1890-1962), a daughter of...
Felipe Rose

Felipe Rose

male, 55 years old
Village People member, Dance musician, LGBT Native American, I've Got a Secret contestant, Nightclub, from the United States…LGBT Hispanic American, American, Native American
Felipe Rose is, of course, best known as the Native American-clad performer in the sensationally popular disco group, the Village People; but this...
Charlene D. Francis

Charlene D. Francis

female
native, NativeAmericanChurch, Vice-President of the Native American Church, artist and elder in the Penobscot Nation
Charlene Francis is an artist and elder in the Penobscot Nation. Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally and spans a range of...

John Willie

male
railroad, vice president, officer, operator, navajo, house…NativeAmericanChurch
Willie died July 17 in Crownpoint. He was born May 5, 1926. Willie was employed by BIA facility maintenance as a heavy equipment operator and...

Damon Cemetery

male
NativeAmericanChurch, Gallup, Amphitheater High School, graduated from Amphitheater High School, born Aug. 27, 1977, in Rehoboth, active member of the Native American Church
Damon died May 2 in Bird Springs, Ariz. She was born Aug. 27, 1977, in Rehoboth. Damon graduated from Amphitheater High School in 1996. She...

Erika Koskela

female
counselor, native, NativeAmericanChurch, Salish Kootenai College, Flan Records, SKC TV
Erika began singing Native American songs ten years ago, and has been performing publicly for about half that time. Through a number of teachers...

Pete J. Peter “Native

male
Soldier, NativeAmericanChurch
Pete J. Peter “Native American Soldier