Yvonne is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and of Seminole and Mvskoke descent.
Yvonne Tiger is an Indigenous art historian and Associate Professor at MacEwan University. She holds degrees from Smith College and the University of Oklahoma and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Lethbridge. Her research explores Cherokee pottery as a place-based art form and emphasizes Indigenous methodologies and refusal. She has held fellowships at the Peabody-Essex Museum and the Canadian Museum of History, and was recently published in Five: Limited Edition for Paris Photo 2024.