Keats Begay

Keats Begay (May 17, 1923 – January 5, 1987) was a Navajo American painter who lived in Chinle, Arizona and was active in the late 1930s. Begay has exhibited his work across the country, including at the National Gallery of Art, the Southwest Museum of the American Indian and the Museum of New Mexico.

Begay studied at the Santa Fe Indian School.

Begay was a long-distance runner, earning a state championship. Begay compared his experience on the Bataan Death March as comparable to the Long Walk of the Navajo in 1864, in which Navajo were forcibly moved to a reservation.