Michael Chiago Sr. Meet the Artist and Book Signing
Tohono Chul Park 7366 N. Paseo Del Norte, Oro Valley, AZ, United StatesMichael Chiago was born in 1943 in Kohatik Village on the Tohono O’odham reservation, roughly 65 miles west of Tucson. His early life traced a distinctly American arc: performing as an Indian fancy dancer at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, training as a barber, and then enlisting in the Marines in the late 1960s, where he completed a tour of duty in Vietnam. After returning home, he used the G.I. Bill to study Commercial Art at Maricopa Community College,...
