TSIANINA REDFEATHER AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY

AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY

MUSCOGEE CREEK NATION OF OKLAHOMA

TSIANINA REDFEATHER

Tsianina Redfeather was born December 13, 1882 as Florence

Tsianina Evans at Eufaula, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, within the

Muscogee Creek Nation to Creek and Cherokee parents.

Sponsored by Alice Robertson she was trained as a classical singer at

Denver. Colorado and toured with the composer pianist Charles

Wakefield Cadman who lectured for the Indianist Movement of

American Classical Music to create a new American Music which

did not sell to the musical public and ended in the mid 1920's.

The Cadman composition “ The Land of the Sky Blue Waters “ was

Redfeather's signature song when she and Cadman toured America and Europe.

She married David Balz in Denver in 1920, divorced, remarried husband

Blackstone , also divorced. Redfeather became a devout Christian

Scientist and settle in California at Burbank, then San Diego where in 1981

she was baptized in the Catholic faith at St. John's Church and claimed

to be a descendent of Indian Royalty.

During WW I she entertain troops in Germany and was honored by

General Black Jack Pershing as the first woman volunteer entertainer.

Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone Greyson died in San Diego, California, January 10, 1985, at the age of 102.

Abstract: Wikipedia & Santa Cruz Sentinel, California, Monday ,

January 14, 1985