John Louis Clarke

John Louis Clarke
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John Louis Clarke (May 10, 1881 - November 20, 1970) was a Blackfoot wood carver from Montana.

Biography

His Blackfoot name was Cutapuis. He became deaf from scarlet fever in childhood in an outbreak that killed five of his brothers.[1] He attended the North Dakota School for the Deaf in Devils Lake, North Dakota; the Montana School for the Deaf and the Blind in Great Falls, Montana; and the St. John's School for the Deaf in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[2]

References

  1. ^ Michael McCoy (2007). Montana Off the Beaten Path. ISBN 0762744235. http://books.google.com/books?id=MA_jGufugckC&pg=PA25&dq=Cutapuis&ei=lJXbSq-aM6fSyQTSzc2uDg#v=onepage&q=Cutapuis&f=false. "John L. Clarke, whose Blackfeet name was Cutapuis, "The Man Who Talks Not," was a Blackfeet Indian born in Highwood in 1881. ..." 
  2. ^ "John Louis Clarke". http://www.deafpeople.com/history/history_info/clarke.html. Retrieved 2009-10-18. "Three-quarters Blackfoot Indian, John Louis Clarke was early-deafened by scarlet fever ... He attended the Montana and North Dakota schools for the deaf, and had a little formal art education. He often signed his works with his Blackfoot name, Cutapuis — 'man who talks not.'" 

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