Overview
- Her family announced she died on Oct. 24 at Monument Health Hospital in Rapid City, South Dakota.
- She worked in Walt Disney Studios’ Ink & Paint department and is described in her obituary as the first Native American artist to color Disney animation cels.
- Before her studio role, she performed at Disneyland’s Frontierland, then built a screen career with credits including Cimarron, Duel at Diablo, The Apple Dumpling Gang, and TV series such as Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Daniel Boone, and Have Gun — Will Travel.
- In the late 1970s she returned to South Dakota, directed the Eagle Butte Cultural Center, taught art and culture at Little Wound School, and received South Dakota’s Indian Living Treasure Award in 2005.
- She was married to actor Eddie Little Sky, an early Native performer in film and television who died in 1997, and she is survived by her children Tojan Norma Rendon, Prairie Rose Little Sky-White, and John “Chepa” Little Sky, along with grandchildren and extended family.