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Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nunez
Rincon Band Luiseño, 1888-1972
Person TypeIndividual
Kha'p'oo Owinge (Santa Clara Pueblo), 1904-2001
BiographyLuiseño artist and activist Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez was born on southern California’s Rincon Indian Reservation in 1888. She was immediately adopted and taken to New York City, where she grew up in the home of a prominent physician and his sister. During her lifetime, Wa Wa Chaw was a lecturer, an entertainer, and an activist for Indian and feminist causes. She was also a prolific artist and many of her drawings and original writings are now in the collection of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum