Plains Soul

Carrie Moran McCleary is a Little Shell Chippewa Tribal member and the proud host of Plains Soul Rock Your Beads Night. She started Bead Night at the beginning of the pandemic and continued afterwards, unable to abandon the community created across geographical borders and Tribal nations. She is the owner an artist of Plains Soul a beading, fashion, and home goods company based on the Crow Reservation in south central Montana where she’s lived for the last thirty years. Her work is centered on traditional designs, a love of upcycling, and a need to juxtapose old and new, rustic and glamorous and creating work for everyday use. 

Moran McCleary has participated in Montana Fashion Week, Native Fashion in the City, and Honor Our Legacy Fashion Show. She co-produced and participated in Apsáalooke Community Market’s Native Days, Yellowstone National Park’s Tribal Marketplace, and the Crow Fair 101 fashion shows. Her work has been exhibited in Apsáalooke Women and Warriors at the Field Museum, Chicago, IL and the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, MT, The Brinton 101 at The Brinton Museum in Big Horn, WY, and When Culture Meets Fashion at the Western Heritage Center in Billings MT.