Inductees V-Z

Adam Charles Walker, a Master Artist of the Oklahoma State Arts Council, helped preserve the tribal art of making stickball sticks, bows, arrows, and tortoise shell shakers.

Margaret Roach Wheeler is an award-winning weaver, fiber expert and textile artist. She served as the artist-in-residence at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York. Wheeler exhibited works at the Museum of Art and Design and the Institute of American Indian Arts, among others. She won numerous awards including the President’s Award at Red Earth Festival and textile awards at the 2009 Southeastern Art Show and Market. Wheeler is the owner of Mahota Handwovens, where she designs contemporary fashions and traditional Native American regalia.

Mrs. Willmond is co-author of Chickasaw: An Analytical Dictionary, published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1994. This analytical dictionary is one of the resources used in language classes taught by the Chickasaw Nation.

Chickasaw artist Daniel Worcester was born to D.D. and Dorothy Worcester in Ardmore, Oklahoma in 1955. As a child, he lived on his grandparent’s (original enrollees) original allotment north of Pontotoc. His time spent there gave him a life long desire and connection to the land and his Chickasaw heritage. As an adult, Worcester began to experiment with different art forms and found that he had a talent and interest with functional art in metal.