Raye Zaragoza is an award-winning singer-songwriter who carries an acoustic guitar and a message. Her quiet yet powerful song In the River, written in response to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, resonated strongly with listeners and went viral in late 2016, garnering half a million views on the video, national media coverage, and a Global Music Award and Honesty Oscar.
Along with the adventures of Super Indian, Creator/Writer/Artist Arigon Starr is a member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma and was raised in various cities across the U.S. along with her Navy family. She's been drawing since she could hold a pencil. Arigon followed up her work on Super Indian with contributions to Moonshot: The Indigenous Comic Anthology and being an editor/contributor to Native Realities Press publication, Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers, Volume One. Tales was recently listed as one of the 100 Best Graphic Novels of 2018 by the American Library Association.
Her artist work on Super Indian has also been featured in numerous museum exhibits, including The Heard Museum in Phoenix, AZ; Department of Interior Museum, Washington, DC; Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM; City Hall, Los Angeles, CA; the Form & Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Philbrook Museum, Oklahoma Contemporary and soon to be part of a traveling exhibit.
05-23-2019
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