12 Facts About Ardina Moore

Ardina Moore has received numerous awards for her fashion designs, has served in multiple leadership positions within the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, and was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame.

Ardina Moore Revard was born on December 1,1930, in Belton, Texas.

Ardina Moore's father was James Osage "Jimmie" Revard, founder of the band the Oklahoma Playboys, and her mother was Martha Dora Griffin, who died when Revard was about seven years old.

Ardina Moore began her teaching career, first teaching high school health and physical education.

Ardina Moore joined the Community Service Program, at NEO and began teaching evening language classes to preserve the Quapaw language, creating her own workbooks and tapes, as she had no dictionaries or textbooks on the language.

Ardina Moore, who had been making Native American fashions for her daughters to wear at powwows, Indian dances or other functions, began commercially marketing Indian apparel in 1983.

Ardina Moore cut patterns which Native women sewed from their homes.

Ardina Moore made inner and outer wear as well as accessories, with traditional and contemporary fashions.

Ardina Moore toured with her fashions throughout Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and to both coasts, participating in the Powhatan Renape Nation fashion show in Pennsylvania and Los Angeles where fashion shows were held at the American Cultural Center and International Trade Center.

From her beginning evening classes Ardina Moore expanded her program to save the Quapaw language to two series of classes, which span over an eight-week period and were held annually at the Quapaw Tribal Museum.

Ardina Moore won first place in the Santa Fe Indian Market fashion show twice, was awarded best in her division at the Eiteljorg Museum's annual Indian Market in Indianapolis, was honored by the Heard Museum of Phoenix in 2003, and was featured in an Oklahoma Educational Television Authority special in 2006.

Ardina Moore died on April 19,2022, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the age of 91.