Lena Marie Blackbird (August 23, 1933 – December 6, 2021) was an American Cherokee artist who lived in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Lena Blackbird was raised by her parents in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, where she attended school until grade eight.
Her earliest exposure to the arts was in helping her mother sew quilt tops at church for missions work.
In 1996, Blackbird took the grand prize at the Art under the Oaks competition in Muskogee, Oklahoma, for her first basket entered in a show.
[6] Blackbird was honored again in 2004 at the ninth annual Cherokee Homecoming Art Show for her piece, Let Freedom Ring, which took first place in the contemporary division of basketry.