The Pawnee elder and one-time cartoonist Brummet Echohawk passed away on February 13 of natural causes. Echohawk was an actor, author, painter, and cartoonist. He appeared as an artist on local television kids show, and for a time worked as both a newspaper illustrator and provided a comic, "Little Chief," to the Tulsa World. Echohawk's comics work appeared in a Frye Museum (Seattle) exhibit in 2001. He was 83 years old.