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Name

Rita Coolidge

Heritage

Cherokee

Gender

female

Dates

Lifespan

1945-

Date Note

birth date May 1, 1945

Specialty / Medium

performing (music)

singing

External Remarks

Artist's file in Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum.

Artist’s physical folder is filed alphabetically in the Native American Artists Resource Collection under the following name:

Coolidge, Rita

Exhibits

UP WHERE WE BELONG:NATIVE MUSICIANS IN POPULAR CULTURE. Natiional Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian. Washington DC. 2010 (2010 - 2010)
HIGHER AND HIGHER, RITA COOLIDGE. Sky City Casino. Acoma, NM. 2005 (09/04/2005 - 09/04/2005)

Awards

FIRST AMERICANS IN THE ARTS - 10TH ANNUAL AWARDS - 2002. Century Plaza Hotel. Beverly Hills, CA.: LIFETME MUSICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. (02/02/2002 - 02/02/2002)

Publications

Found 6 record(s)

Citation	Pages	Publication Date	Artist Citation Notes	Website
. "Who's Who in Native Music". Native Peoples, vol. 15, no. 4 (May/June 2002). 2002.	38	2002
Crazy Horse, Kandia. "Rita Coolidge, a Dark-Eyed Cherokee Country Gal". In: Gleason, Holly (editor). Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. 2017.	95-104	2017
Poet, J. "Walela: Spirit Voices". INDIAN ARTIST, 4 (Winter). 1998.	54	1998
Powell, Stephen. "Different Drums No More". NATIVE PEOPLES, 11 (Summer, August, September, October). 1998.	86	1998
Righthand, Jess. "Up Where They Belong". SMITHSONIAN (October). 2010.	30	2010
Wikipedia contributors. "Rita Coolidge". In: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (host URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/) at source URL (permalink version dated May 4, 2018): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rita_Coolidge&oldid=839626364. 2018.		2018	Entry for Rita Coolidge on Wikipedia (viewed May 6, 2018)	View

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