Steven Tamayo

Steven Tamayo Download Audio Transcript John Floridis: Welcome. This podcast is part of a series highlighting the 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellows, recipients of the nation's highest honor in folk and traditional arts. I'm John Floridis. For this podcast, we're going to visit with traditional Lakota artist and educator Steve Tamayo. Steve Tamayo was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He is a traditional Sicangu Lakota artist whose family originates from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Steve served in the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division in the late 1980s. Upon returning, he moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and began to study a variety of traditional materials and techniques important to the regalia of warrior societies, including elements such as the Pescha, a headdress made from Deer tail and the soft guard hail of the porcupine. As an artist, Steve is best known for his work with buffalo robes, a process for him that is years in the making; Starting with his first experiences with animal hides, which came from working in a meat packing plant in Council Bluffs, then to his immersion in learning how to brain tan buffalo hides after moving to the

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