Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (American 1940–2025) was a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation and an influential contemporary Native American artist. Raised on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, she studied at Framingham State College (BA) and the University of New Mexico (MA), where she developed a practice rooted in both Indigenous traditions and modernist experimentation. Working across painting, collage, and printmaking, Smith combined abstraction, representation, and appropriated imagery to address environmental destruction, cultural erasure, and Indigenous sovereignty. Influenced by artists such as Picasso, Klee, and Rauschenberg, she developed a visual language that critically engages Euro-American narratives while asserting Native perspectives.