User:Bushyhair

Introduction

I was born Ronald Anderson, September, 1938 part Irish, but mostly Choctow Indian of the Leader clan. (Leader meaning chief) I came from the deep hole of the Buffalo River in the Potato Hills of the Kiamichi Mountains in Southeast Oklahoma, between Talihania and Hartshorne. I was educated in Calvin, Jones Academy and Hartshorne, Oklahoma, and then high school at Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, followed by four years in the Marine Corps. My formal art education began at Oscar Rose Junior Collage, then South Oklahoma Junior Collage in Oklahoma City, Then a BFA at the University of Oklahoma, then some graduate school at the University of New Mexico studying Indian art history, it ended at Mohave Country Club studying gold panning and geology.

The words I speak and write are a result of this formal American Collage education and the mythological education of my Indinaness, one equal in illumination as the other.

The artist road I’ve taken being no lesser than any other taken by one who chooses to try and make a difference in the world. Only some to be remembered with greater honors, others to be remembered by, “I knew him when” stories by those he touches.

I am Choctow Blue, Child of the water