Tommy Wayne Cannon was an important Native American artist of the 20th century. He was popularly known as T. C. Cannon. He was an enrolled member of the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma and had Caddo and French ancestry.
Self Portrait in the Studio, 1975, oil painting, 72 × 52 in., private collection
Kiowa or Cáuigú IPA: [kɔ́j-gʷú]) people are a Native American tribe and an Indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries, and eventually into the Southern Plains by the early 19th century. In 1867, the Kiowa were moved to a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma.
Three Kiowa men in 1898
J.T. Goombi, former Kiowa tribal chairman and first vice-president of the National Congress of American Indians
Ledger drawing of mounted Kiowa hunters hunting pronghorn antelope with bows and lance, c.1875–1877.
Kiowa hunting elk on horseback, c. 1875–1877