Front Cover: Roy Boney, Cherokee Blues, 16” x 20” mixed media on illustration board, 2016. Used with permission of the artist.Roy Boney Jr. ᎧᏂᎦ ᎪᎳᎭ is an artist and writer and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. His work focuses on the intersection of Cherokee language and culture with pop culture. Boney has contributed artwork and articles to publications on Indigenous art, language, and history for the Gilcrease Museum, Oxford University Press, the University of Oklahoma Press, Marvel Comics, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Oklahoma Today, Indian Country Today, Native Peoples, and First American Art Magazine. He holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Oklahoma State University and an MA in Studio Art from the University of Arkansas–Little Rock, where he was a research fellow at the Sequoyah Research Center. He has also served adjunct instructor of Multimedia Design and Cherokee Language Technology at Northeastern State University. Roy Boney Jr. currently is the Cherokee Language Program Manager for the Cherokee Nation Language Department and 2022–23 Sequoyah Fellow at Northeastern State University. About Cherokee Blues My grandfather Tunney Henson was a gifted guitar player, so I grew up with an affinity for guitar music. I am drawn to the singer-songwriter alone on stage with a guitar telling stories. This is image is an homage to all the stories in music I heard growing up. The Cherokee blues man is surrounded by some Cherokee Little People who are participating in some troubadour revelry.