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Shane Yellowbird

Canadian country music singer-songwriter (1979–2022)

Shane Yellowbird
Yellowbird in 2009
Born	(1979-07-07)July 7, 1979 Hobbema, Alberta, Canada (now Maskwacis, Alberta)
Died	April 25, 2022(2022-04-25) (aged 42) Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Genres	Country
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Years active	2005–2022
Labels	306 Records, On Ramp

Musical artist

Shane Yellowbird (July 7, 1979 – April 25, 2022) was a Canadian country music singer-songwriter from Maskwacis, Alberta.^[1] A Cree, in 2007, he was named the Aboriginal Entertainer of the Year at the Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards, Chevy Trucks' Rising Star of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards and his song "Pickup Truck" was one of the year's ten most played country songs.

Early life

Yellowbird was born in Hobbema, Alberta,^[2] on 7 July 1979.^[3] He attended Ponoka Composite High School.^[3] He suffered a severe stuttering problem as a child, for which he attended a speech therapist who

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Honestly, who doesn’t perform karaoke fantasizing that, minutes after you polish off the crescendo in “Stairway to Heaven,” a music manager will e-mail you a huge contract and a strategy for launching your career? Well, sometimes it really does happen. In 2003, Shane Yellowbird (1979-2022), then a fine-arts major at Red Deer College, in Alberta, Canada, had just finished a turn at a karaoke bar in Edmonton, when someone in the audience who had a connection to a connection in the record business made a call. In short order, Louis O’Reilly, an artists’ manager who has guided many Canadian country singers to success, headed to Edmonton to hear Yellowbird sing again. “He was a natural,” O’Reilly, who ended up managing Yellowbird’s career for ten years, said recently. “He had the right look, the right voice. It was country; that was his vibe.”

Yellowbird, who was a member of the Maskwacis Cree Nation (his Cree name is Mekwan Onimîheto), grew up in Maskwacis, a hamlet not far from Edmonton. His parents competed on the rodeo circuit. Yellowbird was good at everything he tried, including

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An entrepreneur, advocate, and member of the Blackfoot Nation, Elouise Pepion Cobell (“Yellow Bird Woman”), fought tirelessly for government accountability and for Native Americans to have control over their own financial future. During her life, she won countless awards, founded the first Native American owned bank, and successfully won a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Government.

Cobell was born on November 5, 1945 on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. The middle of nine children, she was the great, great granddaughter of the respected Mountain Chief of the Blackfoot Nation who refused to compromise with the U.S. Government in the nineteenth century. Cobell grew up without running water or electricity and three of her siblings died during childhood. When she was 4, her father successfully got a one-room schoolhouse built on the reservation. She attended that school until high school.

Cobell grew up hearing stories and complaints from family and friends about the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The BIA managed Native American owned land and any proceeds made from it