Chukma (Hello).

I hope you all are having a great summer and getting outside to enjoy the beautiful nature creator has provided us.

I’ll be at the Oka Kapassa Native American Festival, the Moundville Native American Festival, and several mound sites in Ohio later this year.

My schedule is filling up for 2025 so please check it often. Chapisa’ Lacho’.

I am a registered member of the Chickasaw Nation, an award-winning storyteller, artist, and a founding member of Hithla, a dance troupe practicing Southeastern traditional stomp dance. I perform in my regalia and explain why we wear what we wear and share some of our stories, language, history, and culture. I can create a program that fits any age group and any theme. I have the best job in the world, getting to share my stories and culture with the best people, festivals, universities, corporations, and museums. 

I was honored to have been chosen as a resident Spring of 2025 at A Studio in the Woods, a program of Tulane University’s ByWater Institute, and one of the leading artistic and academic residency programs in the Gulf South region.

The super-talented Mantageri illustrated one of the stories I told at the Smithsonian’s 2024 Folklife Festival, Baby Rattlesnake, check it out! AND, the one and only Lauren Hogg wrote a fantastic article about me and my craft “Storytelling, Like Language, Is Alive”: How Amy Bruton Bluemel Protects Her History. Please take a few minutes to read it.

I am glad you found me and look forward to hearing from, and working with you. Feel free to call me if you need more information.

Chumaski (Thank-you),
Amy Bluemel

“Amy Bluemel is one of the best storytellers I’ve ever heard, of any genre. She has a deep respect for her cultural heritage and a unique way of connecting to audience members of all ages through not only the content of her stories, but her wonderful intonation, gestures, timing, and overall delivery. I have read a great deal over the years about the culture of Southeastern Native Americans, but hearing oral tradition presented so delightfully by Amy really helps to contextualize the material. I would not hesitate to recommend Amy Bluemel as a storyteller to anyone planning an event because more people need to hear her!” —Bill Bomar, Ph.D., Director of Museum Studies, The University of Alabama