Chesley Goseyun Wilson (July 31, 1932 – October 4, 2021)[1] was a maker and performer of the Apache fiddle, singer, dancer, medicine man, silversmith, former model, and actor.

[3] Chesley Goseyun Wilson was born on July 31, 1932, in the town of Bylas on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona.

[4] Because his father's work often required him to be on remote parts of the reservation, the pre-teen Wilson was raised by his grandfather and uncles, who were prominent musicians, singers, religious and medicine leaders of the Apache people.

After his discharge in 1955, he participated in a US government program for Native Americans where he trained as a silversmith and then worked for over twenty years in the San Francisco region and in Carson City, Nevada.

[4] Wilson was a model for several years, working with Western artists Howard Terpning, Logan Maxwell Hagege and photographer Ray Manley.