Oqwa Pi (English: Red Cloud[1] or Kachina Stick) also known as Abel Sanchez (1899–1971), was a San Ildefonso Pueblo painter, muralist, and politician.
[1] Oqwa Pi was born in 1899 in San Ildefonso Pueblo (Tewa: P'ohwhóge Owingeh) in New Mexico.
[2] He was educated at the Santa Fe Indian School, where he learned watercolor and mural paintings;[3] he studied with Dorothy Dunn.
[2] In 1931, the Exhibition of Indian Tribal Arts at the Grand Central Galleries in New York City happened, and as a result, Pi's work toured and was shown nationally including at the Museum of Modern Art.
[7] Oqwa Pi's paintings were executed in one of the two specific styles that are associated with the San Ildefonso school, a Native art movement of self-taught artists from 1900 to 1935.