As an award winning Native American artist, Yonavea started when she participated in her first juried art market, entering a pair of Delaware moccasins in the Bead Work competition at the Red Earth Festival and placed.  

Since then she has continued to place in other Native American art market competitions with moccasins (pucker-toe), beaded belts, beaded jewelry, and Native American cultural items in the Bead Work and/or Diverse Art categories at the Red Earth Festival, South Eastern Art Show and Market (SEASAM), the Artesian Arts Festival, Eiteljorg Indian Art Market, and the Cherokee Art Market.

FAQs ABOUT HER WORK

I am enrolled member of the Caddo Nation and I am also Delaware Nation and Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma. For my bead work I use Czech cut beads and my bead work is done on a loom or hand stitched on buckskin using two needle applique stitch or half stitch. I sign and date my work, so you know that it is an original piece made by me. My bead work has several influences ranging from South Eastern, Woodland and I live in Indian Country.