Big River Cree - Jingle Dress Side Step song

Happy New Year!

I have a blessing to share.

This link will take you the most beauty-ful of song performed by a Cree powwow drum group.

The top of my new year's resolution list is that I will dance more in the powwow circle.
I am a Jingle Dress dancer and this song is one that is created to showcase the dance style called
'Side Step.'

Please follow link. Be blessed by it and enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJxX0JUzEh8

Christmas blessings and adornment

Venaya Yazzie and her 'masani, Jane Werito Yazzie
Photo courtesy of FPL

This is a wonderful season for family. It is also a time for the wonder of cultural adornment. I was blessed to have shared this moment with my loving grand-mother/ mother as we share the presentation of Navajo String Games on the reservation in Shiprock, NM.

We share stories and game techniques with the community and the children.

Pueblo Male Adornment

/Pueblo Man Adornment
Photo by Venaya Yazzie 2014

Yazzgrl Art

Blessings!

Today is a 'beauty-ful' day, the winter birds are singing their morning songs, the western clouds are heavy with rain and the chilly early air is misty; New Mexico is truly blessed.

With this post, I just wanted to share my new website with you. I had previously  launched my official art website at (yazzgrlart.com) but, due to circumstances I not longer have access to that address. This site is one I am still building, but you will still be able to visit and view my pages there. The only difference with this new site address is that I have added an "s" to the end of it.

The new site can be located at www.yazzgrlsart.weebly.com
As an artist I must be proactive, therefore I have had created a new website which is exclusively to show my contemporary fine art paintings and conceptual art installations.


Please share with your circle of family and friends, and or those you might enjoy my art.

Be blessed, be a blessing. -Venaya

Venaya Yazzie and her Ke'staal - Women's Moccasins

Navajo style women's moccasins
Photo by Venaya Yazzie

Within the strong communities across Indian Country, the word has been out that all Indigenous people should, 'rock your mocs.' This was meant to be done within the month of November, which is designated as 'National Native American  Heritage Month.' So, across social media and within the campus of many universities a plethora of Generation X'ers and Millennials, and also manycollege students have been sporting their unique tribal moccasins as a way of showing pride in their identity as 21st century Indigenous peoples.

I truly believe We as Indigenous people should wear our tribal regalia and Our tribal footwear every chance we get! The moccasins pictured here are my own Navajo-style women's moccasins, which are called ke'tsaal, 'big shoes.' Most though refer to this style of moccasins as 'wraps.' These moccasins are made with cow and deer hides and are dyed a reddish-brown color. The shoes itself is permanently attached to a large piece of white deer hide, which when worn is wrapped around the ankle and calf of the woman.

Via Navajo oral tradition, it is said that the women wore this type of moccasin so in their nomadic treks their legs and feet would be protected from the flora and fauna as they walked.

Pueblo women in Indigenous cultural adornment.

Pueblo women in Indigenous cultural adornment.
Historical photograph source: Internet

I so adore this historical photograph, it is an amazing depiction of ancestral Indigenous southwestern desert adornment of tribal women.

In their Indigenous tribal adornment their presence is strong, they truly stand as Pueblo matriarchs of our strong desert ancestry. Simply beauty!

Yazzgrl Art Earrings by Venaya Yazzie

Yazzgrl Art Earrings by Venaya Yazzie
Photo by Venaya Yazzie
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2014

As an artist I have always worked to extend my boundaries of my work in many venues, as of now, I am designing and creating wearable art via jewelry. This photo depicts a pair of earrings I made on wooden pieces and acrylic paints and glass embellishments. The abstract designs are inspired by the Navajo rug designs of my matriarchs of the Navajo weavers of my tribe.

Yazzgrl Art Earrings made by Venaya Yazzie

Yazzgrl Art Earrings made by Venaya Yazzie
Photo by Venaya Yazzie
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2014

As an artist I have always worked to extend my boundaries of my work in many venues, as of now, I am designing and creating wearable art via jewelry. This photo depicts my earrings I made on wooden pieces and acrylic paints and crystal embellshment. The curved abstract designs are inspired by the flora and fauna of the high-desert southwest in northwestern New Mexico.