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Don Secondine is a member of
the Delaware Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, born January 27, 1952 in Nowata,
Oklahoma. His interest in Delaware
history and culture was cultivated by his grandparents and his father at an
early age. He studied painting and drawing
under the noted Cheyenne artist Dr. Richard West at Haskell Indian Junior
College. Received his Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree at Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas in 1976. He
has received numerous awards and recognition for his work. In 1971, he won a
Purchase Award at University of Oregon Indian Art Show for a painting entitled
“Peyote Mystic”. A Painting Honor Mention at the Philbrook Indian Art Museum,
also in 1971. A purchase award at the National Indian Art Competition, Central
Washington State University in 1973. Outstanding Sophomore Painting Award at
Haskell Indian Junior College, Lawrence Kansas. He received the Helen Hoover
Award at the University of Kansas in 1975. A Painting Honor Mention at Kansas
Indian Art Show in 1984. Purchase Award at the Lawrence Kansas Indian Art
Festival and Art Market with a pewter inlaid love flute, which is in the
permanent collection of the Museum of Anthropology at Kansas University of
Lawrence Kansas. Winner of the White
Buffalo Award at Red Cloud Indian Art Show with an oil painting entitled ”My
Brother, We are Both Hunted” for the best representation and depiction of the
buffalo in a historic-cultural setting of show in 1991. Certificate of Award by
the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1994 for his
contribution to the preservation of Native American music. Received the
prestigious Sagamore of the Wabash Award in 2004 for his contribution to the
education of the school children of Indiana in Native American culture and history. Don's
work as an artist is also in demand for wall murals, most recently, he
completed two wall murals for dioramas at the Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve in
Louisville, Kentucky. He painted a frieze in the Natural History Museum, Kansas
University, Lawrence, Kansas. He has also painted murals for Haskell Indian
Junior College, Lawrence Kansas and Ottawa University, Ottawa Kansas. His
work has been featured in shows and permanent collections across the country.
In 1973, Don had showings at the University of Idaho, the University of Nevada,
the University of Montana, and Oregon State University. He participated in the
Native American Invitational at the University of Kansas, Lawrence in 1974,and
Native American Week at Wichita State University in 1977. A one man show,
"Native Anachronisms", at the Mid-America All-Indian Center, Wichita
Kansas, in 1981. His art was also featured at the Indian Territory Gallery Art
Show, Sapulpa Oklahoma, in 1982. Don's
work is in the permanent collections of former Governor Robert Docking, Kansas,
former Senator James Pearson, Kansas, Dr Michael Shinkle, Peoria Illinois, and
the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior Department, Washington DC. The Woolaroc
Museum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and the Southern Plains Museum in Anadarko,
Oklahoma have paintings by Secondine in their permanent collections. One of Don's Delaware Indian love flutes
with pewter inlay, an oil painting "The Yengwees are Coming", and
also some of his silverwork are in the permanent collection of The Minnetrista
Multi-Cultural Museum at Muncie, Indiana. The oil painting,
"Courtship" is in the permanent collection of Prophetstown Museum at
Lafayette, Indiana. Don made a model of the old Delaware Indian Big House
Ceremonial Lodge for the Red Earth Museum's permanent collection in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma. One each of Don's big Delaware women's brooches is in the new
Delaware Indian exhibit at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western
Art in Indianapolis and The National Museum of the American Indian in
Washington D.C. Most recently, Don was contracted to make the silverwork for
the display copy of the Francis Slocum (Makoniqua) wearing blanket for the
Wabash Co. Historical Society Museum, Wabash, Indiana. Don
has lectured and demonstrated his artwork at Folk Life Festivals, Museums,
State Monument Parks, Universities and schools such as the Indian Art Workshop
in Washington, D.C. at the Interior Dept., Cincinnati Museum of Natural
History, Cahokia Mounds at St. Louis, Flint Ridge Memorial State Park at Newark,
Ohio, Schoenbrunn Village at New Philadelphia, Ohio, City Folk Folk Life
Festival in Dayton, Ohio and the Frontier Folk Life Festival under the Arches
at St. Louis, Missouri. He
was chosen as a Content Consultant for 4th grade Ohio History
textbook, published by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 1997. Native consultant for HBO movie “Standing in the Light” for Dear
America, 1998. Starred in Legends of
the Old Northwest, documentaries aired on the History Channel, Gary Foreman
Productions. Interviewed by Randall Wilkins for his documentary entitled “The
Moravian Massacre”, 1996. Featured as
a storyteller and flutemaker in Tom Law’s Pangea Productions documentary titled
“The Great Hopewell Road”, 1997.Featured in North American Indian Jewelry and
Adornment by Lois Sherr Dubin, copyright 1999, Harry Abrams, Inc. Don has served as Native Consultant for the Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana and is employed as an artist and craftsman at Sauder Village, Archbold, Ohio; a living history museum.
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