A Comanche from Lawton, OK, Nocona J. Burgess is the great-great grandson of Chief Quanah Parker. His father, Ronald Burgess, a former chief of the Comanche tribe, is also an artist, as are several other members of Burgess’s family. 

"I have always been around art. My great-grandmother, Daisy Tachaco, who raised my father, was an accomplished bead worker despite being blind. With all this art and all these artists around me, I had no choice but to pursue art. It was in my blood"