About Rimrock-Dancer:
The profile pic is of a beaded bag that I made for a local art show on my reservation a few years ago. The second pic is a belt buckle that was entered the previous year to the beaded bag. The beads were small enough to fit four on the head of a straight pin. I just wanted to experiment with my tiniest bead on this buckle. It won a Timberline Lodge Purchase Award and was taken to that resort, from there I don't know where it has migrated to.

About me: I am a lady entrepreneur and an artist of cultural arts & crafts. My Native American affiliation is with the Wasco Tribe; my historic cultural turf is the Pacific Northwest. I'm half Native from my mother and half Caucasian with a dash of Algonquin from my father. I'm a Grandmother, adopted my terrific granddaughter and I'm the parent of 7 grown children. I'm fluffy and working on the weight loss. One of my goals for my lifestyle is Prov. 31:10-31.

I had focused on an idea that my Mom and many of the local females elders have had over the years: to be able to help promote the culturally significant food and medicine plants that are important to our tribal people. So I'm a bit of a different kind of farmer. I still have my plans and research going on that. I am retired now (yayy!) but my last job was as a Telecommunications Officer for our tribal Police Department.

My home turf: I live on my reservation in central Oregon. We live on 1.75 acres in a somewhat rural setting within our reservation, which is a little over 650,000 acres of mountainous timber to high desert plateaus of open range. My rez is somewhat large, having a lot of land that can be developed into farmable acreage. I would like to move to a more rural area as I have too many close neighbors; it's too crowded here for my liking!

Things I like: fresh air, gardening, self-sufficiency, DIY projects, home and family life with my granddaughter, extended family, and friends old and new. But its hard to carry on a conversation with them when they don't have an agricultural interest, so I often feel isolated even in a crowd. My granddaughter and I have three dogs (one is wolf-mix) and four cats. I would like to get back into raising a few chickens as I enjoy watching them and the eggs are an added bonus! I like most kinds of music: golden oldies, R & B, gospel, country, and, very rarely, rap. (Underline very) I like to dance to the music if its a slow dance as I have osteoarthritis in both knee joints and rotator cuff damage in my shoulders; fast, sudden movements can cause injuries. I try to work around my pain when it occurs. I enjoy learning new things, a lifelong learner, and would find it to be enjoyable to share/compare my knowledge, hobbies, and talents with a special friend. I feel that I'm a low-maintenance type of person; I'm happy with good conversation and quiet times as well as doing stuff together. I have a 9mm pistol, Charter Arms AR-7 and Savage .308 and I will hopefully be getting my grandkid involved in shooting.

Things on my to-do list: restart my yard and garden, add an orchard, finish repainting my kitchen cabinets, and whatever else I can think of that can make life a little easier and fun after I've been playing in the dirt! The yard, garden and orchard plans are from letting it all go so I could focus on taking care of my Dad for the last four years of his life. It was the hardest job I've ever had and the most rewarding as I had so much time to spend with him, listening to him reminisce about Mom and their past life. If I had it to do over again, knowing the end was coming, I would still do it without a second thought. Other than all that, I keep busy with my day-to-day stuff.