INOLA AHYOKA

Much to everybody’s great surprise, Inola can talk to bears.

Inola was sent to a white women’s college. She learned European culture and customs. When she got back home, her tribe had no use for her. She became an exotic dancer at Classanr’s Parisian. That’s all, she just danced. She was very good, but worried she would be “just a dancer” for the rest of her life. Then Studs showed up.

Inola hand-painted her own show bills. We found this one in her effects, pinned to the inside of her steamer trunk.

43 seconds of Can-Can


Not accepted by her own people, and only accepted elsewhere as an entertainer, Inola was completely accepted by Studs and his bears.