Ardina Moore

Ardina Moore
Rattlesnake ribbon work design on skirt by Ardina Moore, 1995
Native name	Ma-shru-Ghe-Ta
Born	Ardina Revard 1930 (age 86–87) Texas
Alma mater	Northeastern State University
Occupation	artist, Native American clothing designer
Known for	fluent Quapaw speaker, textile artist
Notable work	Quapaw language preservation

Ardina Moore (née Revard, born 1930) is a Quapaw-Osage Native American from Miami, Oklahoma. She is a Quapaw language speaker and has developed a heritage preservation program to teach the language to younger tribal members.

She is a fashion designer and regalia-maker, who founded an Indian apparel business, Buffalo Sun, in 1983. She has received numerous awards for her fashion designs, has served in multiple leadership positions within the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, and was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame.

Ardina Revard was born in December 1930 in Texas to an Osage and Quapaw family. Her father was James Osage "Jimmie" Revard, founder of the Oklahoma Playboys, and her mother was Martha Dora Griffin, who died when Revard was about seven years old. Her maternal grandparents were Minnie and Chief Victor Griffin, the last Quapaw chief before the tribe formed a business committee. Revard grew up speaking both English and Quapaw on the farm of Chief Griffin known as "Devil’s Promenade" in northeastern Oklahoma. After finishing high school, Revard enrolled at Northeastern State University, graduating in 1957.

She began her career as a teacher, first teaching high school health and physical education. Then she taught Indian history and genealogy at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College (NEO) in Miami, Oklahoma. Between 1967 and 1978, she lived in Montana, but returned to Oklahoma with her family and discovered that the Quapaw language was endangered. She joined the Community Service Program, at NEO and began teaching evening language classes to preserve the Quapaw language, creating her own workbooks and tapes, as there are no dictionaries or textbooks on the language.

Moore, who had been making Native American fashions for her daughters to wear at powwows, Indian dances or other functions, began commercially marketing Indian apparel in 1983. The company Buffalo Sun was located in Miami, Oklahoma, where Moore lives and designs the clothing. She also cuts the patterns and then Native women sew them from their homes. The company makes inner and outer wear as well as accessories, with traditional and contemporary fashions. Some are simple designs and others feature intricate beadwork and ribbonwork elements. She has toured with her fashions throughout Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and to both coasts, participating in the Powhatan Renape Nation fashion show in Pennsylvania and Los Angeles where a fashion shows were held at the American Cultural Center and International Trade Center.