St. Patrick's Mission School
Five of the artists attended the St. Patrick's Mission School in Anadarko, serving Kiowa, Comanche and Apache children. Operating from 1872 to 1996, the school, also known as the Anadarko Boarding School, was the longest lived of the seven schools for Native American children in Oklahoma operated by St. Patrick's Mission. There the Kiowa Six received formal art instruction from a Choctaw nun, Sister Mary Olivia Taylor (1872–1931).
Monroe Tsatoke did not attend St. Patrick's and did not receive formal art training until the Kiowa agency field matron, Susan Peters, took an interest in the young Kiowa artists and formed an art club. Ms. Peters arranged for Mrs. Willie Blaze Lane of Chickasha, Oklahoma to give them painting lessons.
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