Oklahoma Obits Brummett married Mary Frances McInnes. The Thomas Gilcrease
Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
(Gilcrease Museum) owns
Echohawk's
1957 painting "Trail of
Tears."
Brummett Echo-hawk , 1922-
Pawnee
Brummett
Echohawk was born in
1922 in Pawnee, Oklahoma. He was a World War II
combat
veteran and served in North
Africa, Sicily and
Italy.
Echohawk
studied
art at the Detroit School of Art
and Crafts in 1945 and at the Art Institute of
Chicago,
1945-48. He studied
Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa. He has
had
his paintings shown in Pakistan
and India, through the
Art
in the
Embassy
Program, State Department. As an actor
Echohawk has appeared in the role of
Sitting Bull in
Kopit's play Indians
in Tulsa, Fort Worth. He is an authority of
the Custer
Battle at Little Big
Horn. Books by Brummett
Echo-hawk:
Echo-hawk,
Brummett. "Young Rider of
the High
Country" Hillsboro, Kan. : Hearth Pub., 1994.
Genre:
Fiction, Description: 181 p.
: ill. ; 22 cm. Written by Edward Marcus
McGough and
illustrated by Brummett
Echo-Hawk. Ranch
life--Fiction.
Horses--Fiction. Audience: All Ages; ISBN:
1882420136. Brummet use to
show us
paintings he had done
that were hanging in their apartment. They
all told a
story. For years they
sent us Christmas Cards
that had
copies of his
paintings with Indian
Christmas
themes. BRUMMETT ECHOHAWK Pawnee, Kit-Kahaki
(warrior
band) 45th Infantry
Division, 179th Infantry, Company C, Combat
Infantry
Badge, Bronze Star, Purple
Heart (3), Battle
Stars (4).
Born,
Pawnee
Oklahoma, attended Chilocco,
Indian Academy. Brummett and William Lasley, a
Potawatomie, led successful charge at Anzio Beach to
"take" the "Factory" which
insured
that the allied
toe-hold at Anzio Beach was secure. Lasley
was killed in
the first
assault. Brummett became a
well known artist,
with paintings in
galleries around
the world. Brummett
Echohawk, a distinguished American
Indian
artist, died
Monday, 13
February
2006. He was 83. Funeral services are scheduled
for noon
Saturday at the Pawnee
nation Multipurpose Center
in
Pawnee
under the
direction of Poteet Funeral Home of
Pawnee. He is buried in the Highland
Cemetery. Indian artist, actor
Brummett
Echohawk, 83,
dies
Brummett Echohawk, a distinguished American
Indian artist, died Monday. He was 83. Funeral
services are scheduled for
noon
Saturday at the Pawnee
Nation
Multipurpose Center in
Pawnee under
the
direction
of Poteet
Funeral Home of
Pawnee.
Echohawk, a Pawnee Indian,
was
born
March 3, 1922, in
Pawnee
to
Elmer
Price
and Alice
Jake
Echohawk.
He served with
Oklahoma's
45th
Infantry
Thunderbird Division,
Company
B, 179th
Infantry, during
World
War II.
He saw action in
North
Africa,
Sicily and
Italy and
was cited for
bravery in
combat. He received
three
Bronze
Stars and three Purple
Hearts.
Art
depicting
combat
that Echohawk
produced during
the war was
published
in the
Army's
Yank magazine
and was
syndicated in 88
newspapers.
Following
the war,
Echohawk
studied at the
Detroit
School
of Art and Crafts and
at the
Art In
stitute of
Chicago. He
also attended
the
University
of
Chicago and studied
journalism at
the
University
of Tulsa. Echohawk was a
former staff
artist for
the Chicago Daily Times
and
Chicago
Sun-Times. He was widely
known for his
paintings
of American
Indians and
the American
West. His
landscape oil paintings
were
rendered in an impressionistic style with a palette
knife
-- and a Bowie
knife. Echohawk's paintings have hung
in art museums around the world, including
Tulsa's
Gilcrease and Philbrook
museums, and he was a former board member of the
Gilcrease
Museum. One of his most
significant achievements
was
assisting Thomas
Hart Benton
with
the mural
"Independence and the
Opening of the
West" for
the
Truman
Memorial Library in
Independence,
Mo. Echohawk also was
an actor, having
performed in
plays, television
productions
and
motion
pictures.
Memorials in his
name
may
be made to Pawnee
Arts, P.O. Box
470, Pawnee, OK
74058.
Was married to Mary Frances
McInnes. (Mary Frances McInnes
b. 25
Sep 1922, Mangum, OK, d. 8 Jan. 1986, Tulsa, OK, m.
Brummett T.
Echohawk b. 3 Mar. 1922,
d. 13 Feb. 2006,
Bartlesville,
OK.
Brummett
and
Ernest
were
sons of Elmer Price
Echohawk and Alice
Jake.)
Ex-Pawnee leader
Ernest Echohawk dies
Pictured
above
is a
Christmas
Card
designed by
Brummett that
is in the
possession of
his
wife's
cousin, Marca Lee
McInnes Murray. (See the
newspaper page for other
stories relating this
wonderful artist.)
Below is
another Christmas Card designed by Brummett
and sent
to Marca Lee.
Brummett Echohawk in
1945
Submitted by Marca Lee
McInnes Murray 
Mary Frances and her brother, Marion "Paul"
McInnes. He was born 8 January 1920, Mangum, OK, and
died 18 August 1995,
Joplin, MO. His ashes were
scattered on Grand Lake, OK
Above is
the cover of a book by
Harold Bell
Wright
The Four
Brothers is 28
pages,
including
12 full-page
illustrations by
Brummett Echohawk.
6"
wide and 9"
tall
By Staff Reports
2/17/2006
By Staff Reports
2/11/2005
PAWNEE -- Ernest V. Echohawk, a former Pawnee Tribal
Council member, died Feb. 1 in Boulder, Colo. He was 87.
Echohawk was buried in
Boulder on
Feb. 4. His family,
friends and the
Pawnee Nation will
honor him at
noon
Saturday with a
traditional feast in
the tribe's
Multicultural Center.
Echohawk
was born
in Kansas
and
grew up
in
Oklahoma and
New Mexico. As a
child,
he was
forced into a federal
Indian
boarding school, where he and
others were
stripped
of their Indian
clothing and barred
from speaking
Pawnee -- an attempt
at
assimilation into
white
culture.
Boarding school was
pretty good training,"
he told
the
Denver Post almost 20
years
ago.
"Today, only about 10
people
speak
Pawnee. They
did a
pretty good job of
brainwashing us."
Echohawk became a
successful
surveyor in
New Mexico who got
his start
with
the U.S. Army
Corps of
Engineers. In
1979, he
moved
to
Pawnee and was twice
elected
to
the
Tribal
Council. His
daughter,
Lucille Echohawk, an
Indian
child-welfare expert with the
Casey Family
Programs
foundation, said her
father's life
was marked by
one
resolve: "to make
the world a
better
place for himself and the
generations
to come." In 2000, as he started losing a 25-year
battle with Parkinson's disease, he moved to Boulder. He
is survived by three
sons, John
Echohawk, director of the
Native
American Rights Fund in
Colorado,
Larry Echohawk,
Idaho's
former attorney general who is now a professor at
Brigham Young University in Utah, and Fred
Echohawk
of
Longmont, Colo.; two
daughters,
Lucille
Echohawk of
Arvada, Colo.,
and
Mary Adamson of
Houston; a
brother,
Brummett
Echohawk of Tulsa; 13
grandchildren;
and 24
great-grandchildren. A
fourth son, Tom, an Indian
water-rights attorney, died in
1982.
Submitted by Marca
Lee McInnes Murray
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