nevaquaya

＂Doc liked to put beautiful things in his artwork, such as the flute, because it represented music being played to someone’s sweetheart,＂ Doc Tate Nevaquaya’s wife Charlotte said. ＂He would say, ’We are not savages. We love, too.’ That was the side that he wanted people to see, that Indian People had a way of courting that was beautiful.＂ This biography celebrates the life and accomplishments of master Comanche artist and flute player DOC TATE NEVAQUAYA (1932-1996), Knowledge Keeper of the traditional arts of the Numunu (Comanche) Nation.