With gratitude, this website is dedicated to all the dancers Ben and Linda Marra have enjoyed meeting and photographing at powwows throughout the last twenty years. While it is impossible to feature everyone, the following people have made Images along the Red Road possible.
Thank you.
Home Page
Adam Tsosie Nordwall, Shoshone / Chippewa / Diné
Introductory Slideshow
1. | Norman ?Sonny? Kelly-Kinew, Ojibwe |
2. | Irwin Tso, Diné |
3. | Juanita Marcus Turley, Taos Pueblo |
4. | Derwin Velarde, Jicarilla Apache |
5. | David Mills, Blood |
6. | Ardell Scalplock, Siksika |
7. | Nathan Largo, Diné |
8. | Misty Stafford-Flores, Puyallup / Seneca |
9. | Ron Walsey, Warm Springs |
10. | Adrian LaChance, Plains Cree |
11. | Albert Thomas, Colville |
12. | Marty Whelshula, Sanpoil Band of Colville |
13. | Pearl W. Sammaripa, Colville |
14. | Mike Peters, Shuswap |
15. | Leon Old Elk-Stewart, Crow |
16. | Oliver Jones, Port Gamble S?Klallam |
17. | Summer Baldwin, Lemhi Shoshone-Bannock |
18. | Robert Washington, Lummi |
19. | Peter Anthony, Shuswap |
20. | Stephen Small Salmon, Pend d?Oreille Flathead |
Faces from the Land Slideshow
1. | Kevin Haywahe, Assiniboine |
2. | Mary, Jennifer, and Joyce Everybodytalksabout, Blackfeet / Colville |
3. | Gerrod Moses Goudy, Yakama |
4. | Dawn Black, Chippewa-Cree / Blackfeet |
5. | Bob Red Elk, Assiniboine / Blackfeet / Hunkpapa, Santee, Yankton Sioux Tribes |
6. | Raymond Cree, Umatilla / Yakama / Cree |
7. | Rose Ann Abrahamson, Lemhi Shoshone |
8. | Paris Leighton, Sr., Nez Perce |
9. | Lolita Henry, Nez Perce |
10. | Teri, Epaleckt, and Jeffery Scott, Nez Perce |
11. | Curtis One Bear, Crow / Cheyenne |
12. | Travis Bear Ike, Omaha |
13. | Summer Baldwin and Willow Jack, Lemhi Shoshone-Bannock; Lemhi Shoshone- Bannock / Colville |
14. | Gary E. Greene, Nez Perce |
15. | Terry Tsotigh, Kiowa |
16. | James ?Hoody? Walsey and Keno Colby White, Warm Springs / Wailaki / Yakama / Shoshone-Bannock; Yakama / Diné |
17. | Karen Reed, Chinook / Puyallup |
18. | Rikki Wahchumwah and Donovan Howtopat, Mid-Columbia River Tribes |
19. | Leona A. Ike, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs / Wasco / Yakama |
20. | Nakia Williamson, Nez Perce |
21. | William Pawnee-Leggins, Oglala Sioux |
22. | Audrey Olney, Yakama |
23. | Al Blackbird, Omaha |
24. | HollyAnna CougarTracks DeCoteau Pinkham, Yakama / Nez Perce / Cayuse / Umatilla |
25. | Adam Tsosie Nordwall, Shoshone / Chippewa / Diné |
Featured Dancers page
Kayla Johnson, Warm Springs / Samish / Lummi
J. C. Eaglesmith, Shawnee / Muskokee (Creek)
Leila Abrahamson, Lemhi Shoshone-Bannock
Carolyn Running Crane Whitford, Coushatta / Blackfeet
Charles ?Shadow Walks? Tailfeathers, Cree / Blackfeet
On Location page
Photographed with Ben – Celeste McGurk and Henrietta Scalplock, Navajo / Apache; Navajo
Being photographed – Stephen Small Salmon,
Pend d’Oreille Flathead
Photographed with Ben – Dawn Black, Chippewa-Cree / Blackfeet
Photographed with Linda – Nellie Two Bulls, Oglala Sioux
Photographed with Ben – Chibron [Bron] Tomeo,
Salish / Colville / Gros Ventre / Yakama / Nez Perce
Being photographed – Toni Tsatoke, Kiowa
Photographed with Ben – Raymond Smith, Yakama
Lithographic Prints pages
Joseph Foltz, Yakama
Kevin Haywahe, Assiniboine
Virgil Mathias, Kutenai
Chief William DePoe, Siletz / Cheyenne
Robert Washington, Lummi
Dawn Black Chippewa-Cree / Blackfeet
Portraits Slideshow
1. | Lauren Frank, Arikara / Blackfeet / Cree |
2. | Ardell Scalplock, Siksika |
3. | Dan Nanamkin, Nez Perce / Okanogan |
4. | Bonnie Tomahsah, Comanche |
5. | Fabian Fontenelle, Omaha / Zuni |
6. | Irwin Tso, Diné |
7. | George Kicking Woman, Blackfeet |
8. | Gary Abrahamson, Colville |
9. | Josephine George, Yakama |
10. | Jim LaBelle, Sisseton Sioux |
11. | Stephen Small Salmon, Pend d?Oreille Flathead |
12. | Marty Whelshula, Colville |
13. | Shannon Ahhaitty, Kiowa / Comanche / Cherokee |
14. | Raymond Cree, Umatilla / Yakama / Cree |
15. | Tiny Barril, Tlingit |
16. | Les Wahsise, Colville / Yakama |
17. | Delmarina One Feather, Oglala Lakota / Diné |
18. | Virgil Mountain, Dakota / Anishinaabe |
19. | Wilferd Yallup, Yakama |
Dance Slideshow
1. | Acosia Red Elk Leighton, Umatilla / Cayuse / Nez Perce |
2. | Adam Tsosie Nordwall, Shoshone / Chippewa / Diné |
3. | April Trujillo, Diné / Hopi |
4. | Ardell Scalplock, Siksika |
5. | Carol Melting Tallow, Blood / Blackfeet |
6. | Diné Jack, Diné |
7. | Gary Greene, Nez Perce |
8. | Jade Peone, Colville |
9. | Joyce Hayes, Shoshone-Bannock |
10. | J. T. Williams, Wallowa Band Nez Perce / Umatilla |
11. | Keri Jhane Meyers, Comanche / Gros Ventre / Blackfeet / Nakoda (Assiniboine) |
12. | Jeremy Red Star Wolf, Cayuse / Walla Walla / Umatilla |
13. | Monica Vendiola, Southern Cheyenne |
14. | Paris Leighton, Sr., Nez Perce |
15. | Patrick Spotted Wolf, Arapaho |
16. | Raymond Cree, Umatilla / Yakama / Cree |
17. | Roseanne Greene, Nez Perce / Salish |
18. | Russell McCloud, Yakama |
19. | Sally Anne Jack, Colville / Northern Arapaho / Shoshone-Bannock |
20. | Spike Draper, Diné |
21. | Summer Baldwin, Lemhi Shoshone-Bannock |
22. | Sydney John, Umatilla / Yakama |
23. | Tamara Yazzie, Diné |
24. | Zelma Blackwolf, Yakama / Puyallup |
Youth Slideshow
1. | Colby White, Yakama / Diné |
2. | Leslie Ann Asencio, Flathead / Crow |
3. | Alex Williams, Jr., Nez Perce |
4. | Kayla Johnson, Warm Springs / Samish / Lummi |
5. | Lolita and Wetalu Henry, Nez Perce |
6. | Preston Tom, Paiute |
7. | Bleu Jaye Kenoras, Yakama |
8. | Taunie Cullooyah, Kalispel |
9. | Kevin Smartlowit, Yakama / Spokane |
10. | Tamara Arlene James, Yakama / Colville |
11. | Angela Spencer, Colville / Crow / Diné |
12. | Gary Villa Sohappy, Warm Springs / Yakama |
13. | Utania Ceyshé Nelson, Diné |
14. | Jazmin and Shanice Abbey, Dakota Sioux / Hidatsa |
15. | Christine Johnson, Warm Springs |
16. | Marquis Leighton, Nez Perce |
17. | Tierra Draper, Diné |
18. | Ashley Blacksmith, Crow / Oglala Lakota |
19. | Johnny Lehi, Jr., San Juan Southern Paiute |
20. | Valerie and Michelle Lent, Paiute / Tachi / Mono / Yokuts |
21. | Tara Stanley, Kootenay / Okanogan |
22. | Chucky C. Fryberg, Tulalip |