Walt Pourier

Walt Pourier is an American skateboarder, artist, designer and skateboarding activist who is Oglala Lakota. He started skating growing up on Pine Ridge, and as a child moved for a period with his mother to Orange County, California, where he began hopping fences and skating pools. He returned to Pine Ridge, where he worked as an artist and eventually started his own business, Nakota Designs. He paints and designs on skateboards, canvas and other materials, and he was Artist in Residence at the Denver Art Museum in 2017. He and Jim Murphy co-founded the Stronghold Society.