14 Notable alumni of
Bacone College
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Bacone College is 2697th in the world, 944th in North America, and 892nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from Bacone College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Joe Medicine Crow
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- historianwriterauthoranthropologistnon-fiction writer
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Joseph Medicine Crow was a Native American writer, historian and war chief of the Crow Tribe. His writings on Native American history and reservation culture are considered seminal works, but he is best known for his writings and lectures concerning the Battle of the Little Bighorn of 1876.
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Patrick J. Hurley
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- politiciandiplomat
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Patrick Jay Hurley was an American politician and diplomat. He was the United States Secretary of War from 1929 to 1933, but is best remembered for being Ambassador to China in 1945, during which he was instrumental in getting Joseph Stilwell recalled from China and replaced with the more diplomatic General Albert Coady Wedemeyer. A man of humble origins, Hurley's lack of what was considered to be a proper ambassadorial demeanor and mode of social interaction made professional diplomats scornful of him. He came to share pre-eminent army strategist Wedemeyer's view that the Chinese Communists could be defeated and America ought to commit to doing so even if it meant backing the Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek to the hilt. Frustrated, Hurley resigned as Ambassador to China in 1945, publicised his concerns about high-ranking members of the State Department, and alleged they believed that the Chinese Communists were not totalitarians and that America's priority was to avoid allying with a losing side in the civil war.
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Tim Hill
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- baseball player
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Timothy Hill is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Kansas City Royals and San Diego Padres.
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Acee Blue Eagle
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- painter
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Acee Blue Eagle was a Native American artist, educator, dancer, and Native American flute player, who directed the art program at Bacone College. His birth name was Alexander C. McIntosh, he also went by Chebon Ahbulah (Laughing Boy), and Lumhee Holot-Tee (Blue Eagle), and was an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
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Alexander Posey
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- journalistpoliticianpoet
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Alexander Lawrence Posey was an American poet, humorist, journalist, and politician in the Creek Nation. He founded the Eufaula Indian Journal in 1901, the first Native American daily newspaper. For several years he published editorial letters known as the Fus Fixico Letters, written by a fictional figure who commented pointedly about Muscogee Nation, Indian Territory, and United States politics during the period of the dissolution of tribal governments and communal lands. He served as secretary to the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention and drafted much of the constitution for its proposed Native American state, but Congress rejected the proposal. Posey died young, drowned while trying to cross the flooding North Canadian River in Oklahoma.
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Jack C. Montgomery
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- military personnel
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Jack Cleveland Montgomery was a United States Army officer, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
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Enoch Kelly Haney
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- painterChristian ministerpolitician
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Enoch Kelly Haney was an American politician and internationally recognized Seminole/Muscogee artist from Oklahoma, He served as principal chief of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma from 2005 until 2009 and previously served as a member of both houses of the Oklahoma Legislature. He created a bronze statue that sits atop the Oklahoma State Capitol, called The Guardian. Another statue he created is located at the Chickasaw Nation headquarters in Ada, Oklahoma.
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Willard Stone
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- wood carver
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Willard Stone was an American artist best known for his wood sculptures carved in a flowing Art Deco style.
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Joan Hill
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- painter
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Joan Hill, also known as Che-se-quah, was a Muscogee Creek artist of Cherokee ancestry. She was one of the most awarded Native American women artists in the 20th century.
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Virginia Stroud
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- painter
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Virginia Alice Stroud is a Cherokee-Muscogee Creek painter from Oklahoma. She is an enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians.
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Franklin Gritts
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- painter
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Franklin Gritts, also known as Oau Nah Jusah, or "They Have Returned", was a Keetoowah Cherokee artist best known for his contributions to the "Golden Era" of Native American art, both as a teacher and an artist.
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Ruthe Blalock Jones
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- painterteacher
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Ruthe Blalock Jones is a Delaware-Shawnee-Peoria painter and printmaker from Oklahoma.
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Sharron Ahtone Harjo
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- painter
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Marcelle Sharron Ahtone Harjo is a Kiowa painter from Oklahoma. Her Kiowa name, Sain-Tah-Oodie, translates to "Killed With a Blunted Arrow." In the 1960s and 1970s, she and sister Virginia Stroud were instrumental in the revival of ledger art, a Plains Indian narrative pictorial style on paper or muslin.
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Louis Oliver
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- poet
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Louis Oliver, also known as Little Coon or Wotkoce Okisce, was a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and an American poet. His poetry combines themes of Muscogee oral history with an examination of intellectualism in the context of the Muscogee Nation.
