Author, poet, free thinker; Mark Matthews is part maverick, part mystic. As a boy growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation, he lived through the 1973 standoff between AIM and FBI. It was at this time he earned the nickname "Wasaka" (Wah-SHOCK-Ah) which is Lakota Sioux for "tuffy." Soon Wasaka discovered his talent as an artist and all his work is signed with his Indian name. After the family moved to Alaska, he would go on to illustrate the Foxfire magazine for the Nanwalek High School, a remote "bush" village on the tip of Kenai Peninsula. Wasaka (OzarkPro) now resides in the beautiful artist community of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. You may see him sporting a steampunk hat in the local coffee shop if he isn't kayaking down the Buffalo River.