Elias Jade Not Afraid

Elias Jade Not Afraid (born 1990) He began making beaded jewelry when he was twelve years old and living in Lodge Grass. He taught himself how to bead using two needles by reverse engineering the beadwork on a pair of leggings his great-grandmother, Joy Yellowtail, had made. Not Afraid described the experience: "It was during the winter. It was a really bad winter. We couldn’t do anything outside. We were living in my great-grandmother's house and she had a lot of her old stuff there, a lot of it was beading stuff. I found a pair of her leggings and I always wondered how she did it, so I just kind of took it apart. I would take one row of beads out and kind of reverse engineer it and see how she did it."

Not Afraid's work became widely known when it was featured in the film, Killers of the Flower Moon. The necklace worn by Lily Gladstone was a modernized version of a traditional Crow-style dentalium breastplate. the Henry Ford Museum, the Museum of the Chicago Art Institute, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.