Annie Little Warrior

Annie Little Warrior was a 19th-century Native American artist. She is one of the earliest Native American women artists whose name is known.

Little Warrior was active during the middle of the nineteenth century. Her work is unusual in that it is intended to depict actual events, rather than being ceremonial in nature as was much of the art produced by native American women during those years.[1] What little is known about her can be gleaned from internal clues in her ledger drawings. She is known to have depicted the post-contact world, as one of her drawings contains a depiction of the American flag. Her pictures show rituals from the Plains Indian tribes; at least one is suspected to show a Cheyenne ritual, probably a War Dance, as the men illustrated wear headdresses typical of that tribe. Another work depicts the moving of an Indian camp. This work is signed "Miss Annie Little Warrior" in a hand likely not her own; the prominence of the signature indicates that her identity as an artist carried considerable importance for her.[2] Nothing further is known of her, including to which tribe she belonged; she has been claimed as Cheyenne, but this is by no means certain.[1][2]

References

Paula E. Calvin; Deborah A. Deacon (30 August 2011). American Women Artists in Wartime, 1776–2010. McFarland. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-0-7864-8675-5.
Patricia Janis Broder (10 December 2013). Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women. St. Martin's Press. pp. 384–. ISBN 978-1-4668-5972-2.

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[CalvinDeacon2011-1] Paula E. Calvin; Deborah A. Deacon (30 August 2011). American Women Artists in Wartime, 1776–2010. McFarland. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-0-7864-8675-5.

[Broder2013-2] Patricia Janis Broder (10 December 2013). Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women. St. Martin's Press. pp. 384–. ISBN 978-1-4668-5972-2.