David Bunn Martine
Born in 1960 as David Bunn Siklos in Southampton, New York, David Bunn Martine is Nde Daa’i-Chiricahua Apache and Shinnecock/Montauk through his late mother, Marjorie and Hungarian through his late father, Thomas Siklos. His maternal grandfather was Charles Martine, Jr. Charles’ brother was the late George Martine from Mescalero, NM.
David’s grandfather, Charles was a Nde Daa’i Chiricahua Apache, born at Fort Bowie, Arizona, after the final surrender of Naiche & Geronimo in 1886. Charles’s father, Chinche (Chin-Chee), was killed prior to Charles birth and he was raised by his mother, Cah-gah-ashay and step-father, Charles Martine, Sr. at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Charles was born a US prisoner of war and remained so until 1913.
David graduated from the University of Oklahoma, Norman and has an M.Ed from the University of Central Oklahoma, and attended the museum training program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. He is Curator of the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum in Southampton, NY and Chairperson of American Indian Artists Inc. (AMERINDA) in NYC. David is a painter, illustrator, muralist, sculptor, and writer. www.davidmartine.com
We appreciate the time and talent David brought to the creation of the Ndé Bikéeyá logo. His inspiration for the logo came from the deer hide paintings of Naiche and early drawings of the famed artist and sculptor, Allan Houser. The theme of the logo is the Chiricahua Ndé people coming together for ceremony in their ancestral homeland.
We are also pleased to include David’s book, Time and Memories, Histories and Stories of a Shinnecook-Apache-Hungarian Family, in our library.
