AUTHOR BIO

“Shawnee Real Bird, known by her Apsáalooke ancestors as Horse Across Way, is an
Indigenous poet and photographer. Her roots are the deepest on her home reservation
on the Crow (Apsáalooke) Nation, in Southern Montana. Shawnee is not only a
storyteller, but the first pilot from her tribe and the first woman from the northern plains
tribal regions to achieve her level of licensing. Being able to see the sky from the same
perspective her ancestors sought out visions of, reflects in both her photography and
poetry. Each piece she creates is a multimedia perspective of her experience in modern
society as an indigenous person influenced by ancestors and traditions.”