Dora Old Elk
Dora Old Elk (born 1977) is an Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)/Sioux artist who grew up on the Crow Indian Reservation in Billings, Montana.[1] A dance dress made by Dora Old Elk is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.[2] She also dances Women's Northern Traditional dance. Of her dance dresses she has said, 'I see my outfit as an individual itself. When I put it on, there's no other way to really represent myself than to be out there and dancing. It feels really, really good. It's like nothing that I've ever felt before.'[3] She was a member of the Baptist Ladies' Sewing group as a child in the 1940s, as was her mother Evelyn Old Elk.[4]
The band Warscout recorded a Pow Wow song "Apsaalooke Double Beat" for Old Elk in 2008.[5]
References
- ^ Horses, National museum of the American Indian ; edited by Emil Her Many (2007). Identity by design : tradition, change, and celebration in native women's dresses (1st ed.). Washington (D.C.): National Museum of the American Indian. ISBN 0061153699.
{{cite book}}:|first1=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "National Museum of the American Indian : Item Detail". www.nmai.si.edu.
- ^ "Old Elk represents 'Crow style' throughout circuit". Indian Country Today Media Network.com.
- ^ Matthews, Alma Hogan Snell; ed. by Becky (2000). Grandmother's grandchild : my Crow Indian life ([Online-Ausg.]. ed.). Lincoln, Neb. [u.a.]: Univ. of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803242778.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Apsaalooke Double Beat (Sung For Head Lady Dancer Dora Old Elk)". Myspace.