Pearl YellowHawk Nation was born August 27, 1928 to Adele Azure and John Jake Yellow Hawk in Poplar, Montana.
Pearl attended United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, ND. She also studied at Fort Yates Community College and Fort Peck Community College. She was married to Lowell Nation and had nine children, Frank Nation, Fawn Yellow Hawk, Lowell Nation, April Nation, David Nation, Denise Castillo, Perry Nation, Margaret nation, Lee Abbott.
Pearl gave annually to St. Jude’s Hospital for Children and Veterans of Foreign Wars. She was a proud member of the American Legion Auxiliary Club and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Poplar, MT, and the American Indian Movement.
Pearl loved to travel, go sight-seeing, going to Pow-Wows and camping. She went on the canoe journeys in the summer in Washington with friends and family of the Puyallup Tribe. She loved cruising around with friends, looking for rummage sales. She was a caretaker, she helped raise a lot of her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Enjoyed visiting family and friends from all over.
She was survived by her sisters Vivian Lindahl, and Loretta Faye McGrath; sons Frank and Perry; daughters Fawn, April, Denise and Margaret; she had numerous nieces, nephews, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great-grandchildren.
Pearl was preceded in death by her parents Adele and John; brothers Elmer Yellow Hawk and sisters Wanda Iron Leggins Kirk, Margaret Yellow Hawk and Elma Yellowhawk; children Lowell nation, Lee Abbott, David Nation; grandchildren Amanda, Alexandria, Hokshina, James and Jisgogo.