Black Experience
New Orleans inspires Cuban art
Written by Deja Dennis Photos by Olivia Vega Havana, Cuba – Miles away from the aroma of creole cooking, oaks draped with Mardi Gras beads, and the sweet sound of jazz music, in a small […]
Black Experience
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Big Chief Victor Harris Fi Yi Yi
Timeline: Present – 1984 Mandingo Warriors 1965 – 1984 Yellow Pocahontas (Flag boy) Chief Fi Yi Yi has been a part of the Black Masking Culture (BMC) for over 50 years in New Orleans. Well […]
Black Experience
Big Chief Clarence Delcour Creole Osceolas Tribe
Tribe Timeline: Present – 1978 Creole Osceola Tribe 1972- 1977 Yellow Pocahontas Tribe A chief with unbridled imagination and Love of the power of the tambourine Big Chief Delcour started masking with the Yellow Pocahontas […]
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Big Chief Joseph “Monk” Boudreaux Golden Eagles Tribe
Chief in next Tri-centennial, when your tribe look back to now, how would you want them to remember you?
As a great man like my father was…I taught it and I taught it well! Like I was taught. […]
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Chief Alfred Doucette – Flaming Arrows
“I’m a Master Carpenter, Master Body-and-Fender man. I built race cars and integrated the tracks in Mississippi back in the 60s. Me, Otis, Hank, David […]
42 Tribes
Big Chief Alfred Womble – Cheyenne Tribe
See you hear the Drums, when you hear the beats of the drum its spiritual, it brings something out in your spirit. The drums speak. I want the generations to know let the music DIE […]
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Chief Walter Sugar Bear Landry – Black Mohawk
by Jordan Lorrius Born in New Orleans, Walter”Sugarbear”Landry is Big Chief of the Black Mohawk Indigenous Black Masking Indian Tribe. Known as a ‘3rd Ward Warrior Jackson Street Soldier’, Landry has a four generation family […]