Description: 1 Limited edition print entitled "The Dream Catcher" by Merlin Little Thunder, signed and numbered 57/500.  Print is wrapped and has a cardboard backing.
Dimensions: 17" x 9 ½"
Contributed by:  Kathy Murray Supernaw, RDLN Graduate

Born in Oklahoma, Merlin Little Thunder spent his formative years exploring the lands of various rural areas across his beloved state. Under the guidance of Woody Crumbo, Jr., Little Thunder transferred from Southwest Oklahoma University to Bacone College in Muskogee. Bacone provided an environment strongly focused upon Native American Art. Merlin became a full~time painter in 1981. He works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pencil, pastel & prints. Merlin has made his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Donor Kathy Murray Supernaw is a graduate of RDLN, who earned her master’s degree from Antioch through our program.  At her graduation ceremony during RDLN’s Assembly in Cherokee country, she stated, "I stand before you today as the most unlikely candidate to even have graduated from high school…for a long time I didn’t think I had any intelligence or capacity for learning at all."  She nevertheless later graduated from law school at the University of Oklahoma where she was editor-in-chief of the only Indian law review in the country. After serving in Washington, D.C as an Acting Administrative Judge with the Department of the Interior and other positions, she moved back to Oklahoma and taught at the University of Tulsa law school for three years.  She also served as General Council for the Principal Chief of the Osage Nation for five years and was appointed and confirmed in 2010 as a Supreme Court Justice of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation for a six-year term.