The Montana Arts Market and The First Peoples’ Market

First Peoples’ Market

The First Peoples’ Market offers the work of Montana's finest Native American Indian artists and craftspeople, and includes both deeply traditional crafts and more contemporary artistic expressions rooted in Native American Indian experience. The First Peoples’ Market is a unique feature of the National Folk Festival in Montana that is made possible by a generous sponsorship by Seacast, Inc., a Seattle-based corporation with deep Butte roots.

 

Here are the artists who participated in 2009:

joyce and juanita growing thunder
Bead and quillwork, dolls
Assiniboine-Sioux, North San Juan, CA
merle and nicole bigbow
Painted objects, beadwork, beaded jewelry
Chippewa-Cree and Laguna Pueblo, Ronan, MT
alaina buffalo spirit
Ledger drawings and fine art
Northern Cheyenne, Billings, MT
algie piapot
Paintings
Chippewa-Cree, Box Elder, MT
annette archdale linder
Traditional Star quilting
Assiniboine, Wolf Point, MT

angela babby
Glass mosaics and giclee prints on canvas
Oglala Sioux, Billings, MT
monte yellow bird, sr.
Paintings and ledger art
Arikira & Hidatsa, Great Falls, MT
dg house
Oil paintings and wood block prints
Cherokee, Bozeman, MT
deborah Magee
Beadwork and quillwork
Blackfeet, Browning, MT
leonda fast buffalo horse
Porcupine quillwork
Blackfeet, Browning, MT
shawn running crane
Paintings and beadwork
Blackfeet, Great Falls, MT
antone lebeau
Porcupine quillwork, rattles, war clubs, bow and quivers, lances, antlers and lapidary work.
Cheyenne River Sioux, Gettysburg, SD
frank a. finley
Jewelry made from silver, turquoise, and other stones and handmade baskets.
Flathead - Confederated Salish & Kootenai, Polson, MT

forest crossbear jonnes
Tanned and painted hides, beadwork
Mohawk and Lakota, Shawmut, MT
valentina lapier
Acrylic paintings
Blackfeet, East Glacier, MT
terrance guardipee
Ledger art
Blackfeet, Issaquah, WA
delia cross child
Acrylic Paintings
Blood-Blackfoot,Standoff, Alberta, Canada
shawn collins
Tanned and beaded traditional apparel
Shoshone, Spring Creek, NV