>: Hot Squaws

Another forage into the cheapies bin of a record store has revealed a quick flash of shining diamond. It was some album by Native artist Jana Mashonee, and this time, I can't honestly say it was the music itself. I was like, dang, that chick's beautiful! I didn't buy it, I mean the music has to come first in terms of that. I did decide to look up her music and maybe buy the album later if I did indeed like it. Well, the album was a bit safe and poppy for my taste. There were albums in Jana's discog that were more in key with traditional Native music that I'd probably dig more, and I dunno maybe sometime I'll get one of those if I don't get 10,003 other albums first, there are so many on my list. But I digress.

I got to thinking, almost everyone's heard of Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Tyra Banks, and blah blah blah. In the Native American cultural world, it seems they fight to keep more than their old customs and traditions, or basic land and living rights in today's world. If we are to think of the popular consciousness of media and the entertainment industry, many Natives are virtually unknown. It seems almost criminal. I did some digging, and found there are so many beautiful Native actresses/entertainers/models/etc who most people would not have a clue about. Or they might recognize them but not know them as predominantly Native.

At first my searching yielded a lot of Cameron Diaz, Fergie, Beyonce, Carmen Electra, Demi Moore, Jessica Alba, Heather Locklear, and so forth. Really, a lot of names that could fit up with the roster of well-knowns just mentioned above. They would go on to say something like 'so and so is 13% Native blooded'. I don't want to fully discount the '13%' or whatever, it's cool for people interested in Native things to know that some of these famous chicks actually have some of that descent and they probably honor it in SOME way. But hey, I'm not going to make some list about let's just say, the hottest German girls, and then for almost the entire list talk about girls who are only a tiny part German. Or in the very least, I aim to say all those super popular at-most-a-tiny-fraction-Native girls are all over the place, so it's better for me to focus on some of the underdogs or lesser knowns, who preferably have more Native blood. I guess you could say it's yet another raising Native awareness and pride thing. So here's what I came up with for some 'hot squaws', starting with Jana, the catalyst of all this: