Kimberlie R. Acosta is a well known photographer in Indian Country. She has the most comprehensive collection of Native Musician photography archives available from the past decade. She has taken pictures of the likes of Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...

, Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...

, Jana

Jana

Jana is the spelling of several unrelated given names.* a Slavic short-form for Johanna.* the Roman goddess Diana, who was often called Jana*In India however, Jana is a shortform for the Hindu god Janarthanan....

, Tina Turner

Tina Turner

Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...

, Joanne Shenandoah

Joanne Shenandoah

Joanne Shenandoah is an Iroquois singer, composer and acoustic guitarist. She is a member of the Wolf Clan of the Oneida Nation, of the Haudenosaunee Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. Her music is a combination of traditional songs and melodies with a blend of traditional and contemporary...

, and Bill Miller

Bill Miller (musician)

Bill Miller is a Native American singer/songwriter of Mohican heritage. He was born on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation, near Shawano in northern Wisconsin....

 just to name a few. Since 1999, she has been the official photographer for the Native American Music Awards

Native American Music Awards

The Native American Music Awards , commonly known as the Nammys, are an awards program presented annually by The Native American Music Association & Awards, which recognizes outstanding musical achievement among Native Americans...

. Kimberlie is also the advertising director for News From Indian Country

News from Indian Country

News From Indian Country is a nationwide, privately owned newspaper, published twice a month, founded by Paul DeMain in 1986, who is the managing editor and an owner. It is the oldest continuing, nationally distributed publication that is not owned by a tribal government...

, the independent National Indian newspaper, host of RezStyle and co-host of The Native News Update on IndianCountryTV

External links and sources

• News From Indian Country
• Indian Country TV
• Kimber Photography
• http://www.facebook.com/giizhig