Oklahoma Artist Dana Tiger Honored with "Lois Smokey Award"

Oklahoma artist Dana Tiger reports that: 

Last friday I was honored with the "Lois Smokey Award." She was one of the original Kiowa Five who studied at OU in the 1920's credited with the starting of traditional Indian art movement in Oklahoma. She was forced out because she was a woman and replaced.

Read about Lois Smokey here. This site notes of Smokey that "Because she was the first Indian woman in Oklahoma to step outside of the accepted role of women to paint subjects heretofore exclusive to Plains Indian men, she served as a model to later generations of Indian women artists who wished to do the same." Dana Tiger is also quite an inspiration to the many women who know or read about her extraordinary life.