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Dick West Signed Poster

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Dick West Signed Poster
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Dick West Signed Poster, National Congress of American Indians, 46th Annual Convention, 1989. West inscribed the poster, ''For the attorneys and staff of Gover, Stetson, Williams & West, P.C.--good friends of mine because they have been friends to my son and to Indian people''. Cheyenne Indian artist and educator (Cheyenne name Wah-pah-nah-yah) Walter Richard ''Dick'' West was born in a tipi near Darlington Agency, Oklahoma, on September 8, 1912, to Lightfoot West and Rena Flying Coyote. Dick West attended Concho Indian Boarding School and graduated from high school at Haskell Institute, at Lawrence, Kansas, in 1935. He attended Bacone College from 1936 to 1938 and then acquired bachelor's and master's degrees in fine arts in 1941 and 1950, respectively, from the University of Oklahoma. He subsequently studied mural techniques with Olaf Nordmark in Phoenix, Arizona. Measures 14x20.