Meet the Staff

Whether greeting museum visitors or working behind the scenes in collections, the ONM staff is a core group of dedicated individuals who work together to ensure that the exhibitions and collections practices resonate with the needs, values, and interests of the people.   

MARLA REDCORN-MILLER (Osage/Kiowa/Caddo) | Osage Nation Museum Director   

Marla Redcorn-Miller is the director of the Osage Nation Museum, Pawhuska, Oklahoma.  She is from the Pawhuska District and is the daughter of Jim RedCorn and Joby Henry Redcorn.  Her interest in art and the museum field stems from the influence of her father, who was a prominent Osage artist, and her mother’s people from the Redstone Kiowa community. This upbringing led Marla to focus on and prioritize Indigenous knowledge systems as the primary source for understanding and interpreting Indigenous cultures. Marla cooks for her family’s camp during the Inlonshka and does ribbonwork for family members.

Throughout Marla’s career, she has held positions in museums with significant Native North American art collections including:  the deputy director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico; education curator for the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in developing interpretive programming on Indigenous arts and culture-related subjects. In her work, she endeavors to apply tribal community-based knowledge systems as a foundation for understanding indigenous arts and culture. Marla has a B.A. in art history from Dartmouth College and an M.Phil. in art history from Columbia University. She is a Ford Fellow and has served on the boards of the Native American Arts Studies Association, the Santa Fe Children’s Museum, and Osage County Tourism Board. Marla and her daughter Lanora live in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.

JULIANNA RED CORN COTE | Guest Service Representative, Osage Nation Museum

Julianna Red Corn Cote comes from the Pawhuska District and is a member of the Golden Eagle Clan, also known as the Gentle Sky People. She has been involved with the InLonShka, the ceremonial dances of the Osage Nation, for her entire life. She helps with cooking and dressing her Red Corn family for the dances, important aspects of Osage culture which require much preparation and cultural knowledge.

In 1990, Julianna attended The Institute of the American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she studied 3-Dimensional Design, learning to fingerweave and make ribbon shirts. Since graduating, she has shown her artwork at multiple museums, including Gilcrease Museum and the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa. Julianna offers her artistic skills to the productions of the WahZhaZhe Ballet, creating stage props and occasionally assisting with wardrobe. She also sits on the Osage Ballet Auxiliary, the fundraising committee for the ballet. Currently, she is working towards her Bachelors in Business with an Entrepreneurial add-on.

Recently joining the Osage Nation Museum as a Guest Service Representative, Julianna interacts with the public as a cultural educator, guiding visitors through glimpses of our past via artifacts and into our future by sharing how Osages live today. She engages visitors with fingerweaving demonstrations, highlighting that traditional Osage customs and artforms exist in the contemporary, and points to the culture as a key way of understanding how the Osage people have persevered in the face of historical traumas.