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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Will Sampson, David Pendleton Oakerhater, Ernest Spybuck, Pop Chalee, Franklin Gritts, Anita Endrezze, Fritz Scholder, Oren Lyons, James Schoppert, Fred Kabotie, R. C. Gorman, George Morrison, W. Richard West, Sr., Oscar Howe, James Auchiah, Harrison Begay, Woody Crumbo, Pablita Velarde, Harry Fonseca, Lois Smoky, Carl Sweezy, Fred Beaver, Louis W. Ballard, Monroe Tsatoke, Quincy Tahoma, Sally Larsen, Acee Blue Eagle, Jack Hokeah, T. C. Cannon, Spencer Asah, Blackbear Bosin, Paladine Roye, Jerome Tiger, Michael Kabotie, Sanford Plummer, Ruthe Blalock Jones, Silver Horn, Moses Stranger Horse, Charles Loloma, Frank Day, Patrick DesJarlait, Albert Lee Ferris, Wayne Cooper, Talmadge Davis, Julian Martinez, Johnny Tiger, Jr., Cecil Dick, Helen Hardin, Archie Blackowl, Albert Harjo. Excerpt: David Pendleton Oakerhater (b. ca. 1847, d. August 31, 1931), also known as O-kuh-ha-tuh and Making Medicine, was a Cheyenne Indian warrior and spiritual leader, who became an artist and Episcopal deacon. Imprisoned in 1875 after the Indian Wars at Fort Marion (now Castillo de San Marcos), Florida, Oakerhater became one of the founding figures of modern Native American art. Later he was ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and worked as a missionary in Oklahoma. In 1985, the Episcopal Church named him the first Native American Anglican saint. Born in the 1840s in the Indian Territory (later the U.S. state of Oklahoma) to Sleeping Wolf (father), and Wah Nach (mother), Oakerhater was the second of three boys. His childhood name was Noksowist ("Bear Going Straight"), and he was raised as a traditional Cheyenne. His older brother was Little Medicine, and his younger brother was Wolf Tongue. Oakerhater is believed by some to have been the youngest man to complete the sun dance ritual (his Cheyenne na...
