Cheasequah
Joan Hill (December 19, 1930 – June 16, 2020), also known as Che-se-quah, was a Muscogee people, Muscogee Creek artist of Cherokee ancestry. She was one of the most awarded Native American women artists in the 20th century. Personal Joan Hill was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma on December 19, 1930, the daughter of William M. and Winnie Harris Hill."Joan (Chea-Se-Quah) Hill"
askart.com; retrieved April 30, 2011. She descended from both Muscogee Creek and Cherokee chiefs. She chose the name Cheh-se-quah, Muscogee language, Muscogee for "Redbird," for both her great-grandfather, Redbird Harris, and her maternal grandfather.Power, Susan C. ''Art of the Cherokee: Prehistory to the Present.'' Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007: pp. 190-93 Hill lived on the site of the o ...
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Muskogee, Oklahoma
Muskogee () is the thirteenth-largest city in Oklahoma and the county seat of Muskogee County. Home to Bacone College, it lies approximately southeast of Tulsa. The population of the city was 36,878 as of the 2020 census, a 6.0 percent decrease from 39,223 in 2010. History French fur traders were believed to have established a temporary village near the future Muskogee in 1806, but the first permanent European-American settlement was established in 1817 on the south bank of the Verdigris River, north of present-day Muskogee. After the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 under President Andrew Jackson, the Muscogee Creek Indians were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" forced out of the American Southeast to Indian Territory. They were accompanied by their slaves. The Indian Agency, a two-story stone building, was built here in Muskogee. It was a site for meetings among the leaders of the Five Civilized Tribes. Today it serves as a museum. At the top of what is known as A ...
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