Native American Artist, Anglican Church Saint. Son of Wah Nach and Sleeping Wolf, he was imprisoned in 1875 for his role as one of the last Native American militants in Indian Territory. Although the militants surrendered at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, a group including Oakerhater, was transferred to St Augustine, Florida for imprisonment at Fort Marion. During the three years before they were released, the prisoners were taught English and attempts were made to assimilate them into white culture. They made souvenirs to sell to tourists, including artwork called ledger art. Oakerhater's art today is very valuable and considered sophisticated in terms of content and composition. He was a prolific artist who signed his artwork "Making Medicine" or with a glyph of a dancer in a sun dance. When he was released from prison in Florida, he moved to Paris Hill, New York where he was sponsored by the daughter of Francis Scott Key, Alice Pendleton and her husband, Ohio Senator George Pendleton, to work as a church sexton at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. In July 1881, he was ordained a deacon and soon moved to Oklahoma to recruit students for Carlisle, the first Federal school for Indian children. He subsequently worked as an Episcopal missionary in Oklahoma at newly established Indian missions and schools in Bridgeport and Fay, Oklahoma. Almost 100 years later, in 1985, he was named by the Episcopal Church as the first Native American Anglican saint. He has been honored by a feast in 1986 at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC; by the dedication of a large stained glass window depicting him at St. George Church of Dayton, Ohio; by dedication of a chapel in St. Paul's Cathedral in Oklahoma City; and by the dedication in 2007 of the Oakerhater Episcopal Center near Fay, Oklahoma.