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Making Medicine (O-kuh-ha-tuh)
(Cheyenne) b. circa 1844, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma; d. 1931, Watonga, Oklahoma
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Making Medicine (O-kuh-ha-tuh)
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BiographyMaking Medicine (Cheyenne name: O-kuh-ha-tuh, or "Sun Dancer") was a Cheyenne warrior who became one of the most prolific of the Native American artists at Fort Marion and first sergeant of the company of guards there. When the Fort Marion prisoners were released in the spring of 1878, Making Medicine went to New York to be educated in the Christian ministry. He took the name David Pendleton Oakerhater after the family that sponsored him (the family of Senator George Pendleton), was ordained an Episcopal deacon on 7 June 1881, and worked as a missionary among the Plains tribes for many years. From https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fao0007