Ardina Moore
| Ardina Moore | |
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Rattlesnake ribbon work design
on skirt by Ardina Moore, 1995 |
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| Native name | Ma-shru-Ghe-Ta |
| Born | Ardina Revard 1930 (age 93–94) Texas |
| Alma mater | Northeastern State University |
| Occupation | artist, Native American clothing designer |
| Known for | fluent Quapaw speaker, textile artist |
| Notable work | Quapaw language preservation |
Ardina Moore (née Revard, born 1930) is a Quapaw-Osage Native American from Miami, Oklahoma. She is a Quapaw language speaker and has developed a heritage preservation program to teach the language to younger tribal members.[1]
She is a fashion designer and regalia-maker, who founded an Indian apparel business, Buffalo Sun, in 1983.[2] She has received numerous awards for her fashion designs, has served in multiple leadership positions within the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, and was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame.
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Early life
Ardina Revard was born in December 1930 in Texas to an Osage and Quapaw family.[1] [2] [3] Her father was James Osage "Jimmie" Revard, founder of the Oklahoma Playboys,[2][4] and her mother was Martha Dora Griffin, who died when Revard was about seven years old.[5] [6] Her maternal grandparents were Minnie and Chief Victor Griffin, the last Quapaw chief before the tribe formed a business committee.[2][7][8][9][10] Revard grew up speaking both English and Quapaw on the farm of Chief Griffin known as "Devil’s Promenade" in northeastern Oklahoma.[1] After finishing high school, Revard enrolled at Northeastern State University, graduating in 1957.[2]
Early career
She began her career as a teacher, first teaching high school health and physical education. Then she taught Indian history and genealogy at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College (NEO) in Miami, Oklahoma. Between 1967 and 1978, she lived in Montana, but returned to Oklahoma with her family and discovered that the Quapaw language was endangered.[1] She joined the Community Service Program, at NEO and began teaching evening language classes to preserve the Quapaw language,[3] creating her own workbooks and tapes, as there are no dictionaries or textbooks on the language.[11]
Artistic career
Moore, who had been making Native American fashions for her daughters to wear at powwows, Indian dances or other functions,[10] began commercially marketing Indian apparel in 1983. The company Buffalo Sun was located in Miami, Oklahoma, where Moore lives and designs the clothing. She also cuts the patterns and then Native women sew them from their homes.[12] The company makes inner and outer wear as well as accessories, with traditional and contemporary fashions. Some are simple designs and others feature intricate beadwork and ribbonwork elements.[13] She has toured with her fashions throughout Oklahoma,[10] Arkansas,[1] Missouri,[13] and to both coasts, participating in the Powhatan Renape Nation fashion show in Pennsylvania[12] and Los Angeles where a fashion shows were held at the American Cultural Center and International Trade Center.[10]
Language and cultural preservation efforts
From her beginning evening classes Moore has now expanded her program to save the Quapaw language to two series of classes, which span over an eight-week period and are held annually at the Quapaw Tribal Museum.[1] The tribe also holds an annual Youth Language Camp, as well as conferences with the Dhegiha Language Conference to preserve and teach the Quapaw language and its closely related tongues, Osage and Omaha.[14] In addition to her efforts to save the Quapaw language, Moore has served as the tribe's powwow committee secretary/treasurer,[15] tribal historian,[16] chair of the tribe's Cultural Committee,[17] and as an elected member of the Tribal Business Committee.[2]
Awards and honors
Moore has received many awards and honors over her career. She won first place in the Santa Fe Indian Market fashion show twice, was awarded best in her division at the Eiteljorg Museum's annual Indian Market in Indianapolis, was honored by the Heard Museum of Phoenix in 2003, and was featured in an Oklahoma Educational Television Authority special in 2006.[2] In 2011, she was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame.[17]
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