Shop Native Artist Of The Month: John Pepion
Shop Native Artist Of The Month: John Pepion
Posted By Jared McKiernan March 8th, 2021 Last Updated on: April 7th, 2021
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Each month, we re celebrating a Native American artist, whose work you can find on our Shop Native directory, which features both Native American products and products made for Natives. These products include clothing, beauty, beadwork, herbal, art, blankets, and more. With over 40 companies and products already listed, the directory is attracting visitors from around the world.
Founded in 2008, Eighth Generation is a Native-owned and operated company based in Seattle, Washington. It s the first Native-owned company to ever produce wool blankets with a flagship retail store in Seattle s iconic Pike Place Market.
Dear Mr. Jared Kiernan, Editor, PowWows.com:
I am a subscriber to PowWows.com and have been for the past year or more. It would have been much more had I known about the website sooner. I attended my first PowWow at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL in the early 80s. And even though I didn’t invite them, almost all of my family, aunts and cousins on my mother’s side were already there when I arrived, and they brought my mother who had told all of them. We had a great time that day.
My maternal grandmother was a Native American born in Tampa, FL and married to a Jewish man who had been born in Kiev, Ukraine. They had 5 daughters together in St. Petersburg, FL. But back when my mother was growing up she was never given very much information about her mother’s mother except that somewhere back in time, likely the time of The French and Indian War of the 1700s, a French trapper had married a Native woman and that French last name was carried on down through my grandmother’s