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Arthur Douglas Amiotte, (Wanblí Ta Hócoka Washté or Good Eagle Center) (born 1942) is an Oglala Lakota American painter, collage artist, educator, and author.〔Lester, 14〕 == Biography == Arthur Amiotte was born on March 25, 1942 in Pine Ridge, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was given the name Warpa Tanka Kuciyela or Low Black Bird as an infant, but received his second Lakota name in 1972.〔 Amiotte's parents are Walter Douglas Amiotte and Olive Louise Mesteth. lives. His great-grandfather Standing Bear (1859–1933) was at the Battle of Little Big Horn.〔 Amiotte lived in the reservation until he was six and then visited it during summers up to the age of 15.〔(【引用サイトリンク】last=Indyke )〕 During his studies at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Arthur Amiotte attended a workshop from Oscar Howe in 1961. By this encounter, Arthur Amiotte got a concrete example of how a native artist can be a contemporary artist. Arthur Amiotte received his Bachelor’s Degree in Art and Art Education〔 and was subsequently a teacher at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School in Sioux City from 1964 to 1966. Two mentors, in particular, guided Amiotte. From 1969 to 1975, his grandmother Christina Standing Bear, a sacred bundle keeper, taught him the heritage of his great-grandfather Standing Bear (Mató Nájin), who illustrated ''Black Elk Speaks''. In the period from 1972 to 1981, Arthur Amiotte was influenced by the Lakota medicine man Pete Catches (Oglala Lakota), who introduced Amiotte to Lakota spirituality and rituals belonging to Lakota traditions.〔Bates, 96〕 He received his Masters of Interdisciplinary Studies in 1983〔 from the University of Montana-Missoula.〔 Amiotte was professor of Native American art history at Brandon University, Manitoba,〔 but in 1985, he decided to dedicate himself to art and he established his studio in Custer, South Dakota in 1986.〔 Amiotte curated exhibitions about the culture of the tribes on the Great Plains, such as at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Akta Lakota Museum in Chamberlain, South Dakota; the Buffalo Bill Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming; and the Museum of World Cultures of Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 2006. In 2004, Arthur Amiotte lectured Oscar Howe Memorial Lecture〔(Oscar Howe Memorial Lecture )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Amiotte」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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