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Clara Archilta
Clara Williams Archilta (September 26, 1912–30 September 1994), was a Kiowa/Plains Apache, Apache/Tonkawa painter and beadworker from Oklahoma. A self-taught artist with no formal art training, Archilta is known for her watercolor painting and her pictorial beadwork. Personal life Clara Williams was born in Tonkawa, Oklahoma. Her parents were David Williams (Tonkawa) and Helen Tseeltsesah-Sunrise (Kiowa/Apache). Clara attended Boone School in Apache, Oklahoma, followed by two years at the U.S. Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, Chilocco Indian School, through the eighth grade. She married Ward Archilta and had six children between 1930 and 1949. Art career Her husband died in 1956, and Archilta began to paint the following year as a means to support her family. Despite a severely injured arm, she soon began to sell her work and make a name for herself. She was the first woman to exhibit a collection of paintings at the American Indian Exposition (Anadarko, Oklahoma). She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonkawa, Oklahoma
Tonkawa is a city in Kay County, Oklahoma, Kay County, Oklahoma, United States, along the Salt Fork Arkansas River. The population was 3,015 as of the 2020 United States census. History Named after the Tonkawa tribe, the city of Tonkawa was founded in March 1894 by Eli V. Blake and Wiley William Gregory. Blake and Gregory, originally from Kansas, claimed the land that would become Tonkawa in the Land Run of 1893. Prior to the land run, from 1879 to 1885, the area was known as "Fort Oakland", home to the Nez Perce people. In 1885, the remnants of the Tonkawa tribe, who had fled Indian Territory after the 1862 Tonkawa Massacre, returned to settle in the Fort Oakland area. The Blackwell and Southern Railway (later bought by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) built a line through Tonkawa, which stimulated growth of the town. In 1901, the Oklahoma Territory Legislature established the University Preparatory School (now Northern Oklahoma College) here. By statehood, the populati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
