Art has been a heritage I learned from my Chickasaw grandfather, who was a Chickasaw story teller.  He would often paint beautiful pictures in my mind as he taught me about love and caring, enkindling nature as the basis for love.  My art is my passage into my history and my culture.  I paint to revive the stories he told me and give a continuation of my culture to my children and my grandchildren.  With each story he told me, I try to retell it in my images of the horse, the buffalo, the white dog, the eagle, and the turtle. It is a time for me to bring honor to all the Chickasaw people by creating art that is more than something just seen; art is color depicted from my heart and visually displayed on canvas to honor our forefathers! It is my legacy and my continuum in being the best Native American I can be.n My two books are about my Chickasaw family and their struggles in Indian Territory in the 1800's until Oklahoma statehood.