MARILU LOPEZ-FRETTS

portraits

©OBSERVER-DISPATCH/Photo by Marilu Lopez Fretts
   
  
©OBSERVER-DISPATCH/Photo by Marilu Lopez Fretts
     
  
   
  
Timothy Long, conductor and pianist, Brooklyn, NY. Long is a member of the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town of the Creek Nation of Oklahoma.
     
  
   
  
©OBSERVER-DISPATCH/Photo by Marilu Lopez Fretts
     
  
   
Oneida Indian Nation CEO and Representaive Ray Halbritter.
   
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), host and producer of First Voices Indigenous Radio, NYC. He is also a musician from Cheyenne River Lakota (Sioux) Nation of South Dakota, storyteller, poet, university lecturer, scholar, essayist and human rights activist.
     
  
   
Bas relief artist Michael Trivieri, Tupper Lake, New York.
   
Latin jazz musician Eudy Fernandez, Syracuse, NY.
     
  
   
World War II veteran Albert Tarbell (Mohawk), Syracuse, New York. Sgt. Tarbell served with 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. He fought at Anzio Beachhead in Italy, in the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium and helped capture two bridges from the Germans in Holland. About 44,000 Native American served in World War II.
   
Native American actor and executive producer Sonny Skyhawk, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
     
  
Lacrosse player Alex Dickerman, Oneida Nation Territory, New York.