Joan Hill (December 19, 1930 – June 16, 2020[1]), also known as Che-se-quah, was a Muscogee Creek artist of Cherokee ancestry.

[5] Hill lived on the site of the old Confederate Fort Davis, located on the south bank of the Arkansas River two and one-half miles northeast of present Muskogee, with her family.

Over 110 of her works are in permanent collections, including the Sequoyah National Research Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, the United States Department of the Interior Museums of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Washington, D.C., and the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, New York City.

National Appointments include U.S. Commissioner to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Washington D.C., by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior–2000.

Hill is known most for her stylized, acrylic paintings of historical and cultural scenes, employed a limited palette of neutrals, oranges, reds, and purples.

[8] Hill said in 1991, "Art widens the scope of the inner and outer senses and enriches life by giving us a greater awareness of the world.