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Native American
Authors
This website provides information on Native North American authors with
bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and
links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal
websites.
http://www.ipl.org/div/special/
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Elizabeth
Cook-Lynn
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn was born in 1930 in
Fort Thompson, South Dakota, and raised on the reservation. She received
her doctorate from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1977-78, and
is a retired professor from Eastern Washington University, where she
founded Wicazo Sa Review, a Native literary journal. She identifies
her family's literary and political background, her Dakota heritage,
the northern plains landscape, Kiowa novelist N. Scott Momaday's writings
as her greatest influences.
http://ipl.si.umich.edu/cgi/ref/native/browse.pl/A27
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Suzette Haden
Elgin's Page
Suzette Haden Elgin was born in Missouri in 1936. All sorts of things
happened, and in the late 60s she found herself widowed, re-married,
mother of five, and a graduate student in the Linguistics Department
of the University of California San Diego.
http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/
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Louise
Erdrich
Louise Erdrich was born in 1954, in Little Falls,
Minnesota and grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota where her parents worked
for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She received an M.A. degree from the
John Hopkins University in 1979. Erdrich's fiction and poetry, draws
on her Chippewa heritage to examine complex familial and sexual relationships
among full and mixed blood Native Americans as they struggle with questions
of identity in white European American culture. She is a novelist, poet,
short story writer, essayist and a critic.
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A30
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Joy
Harjo
Joy Harjo's poems explore some of the reasons
Indians drink and why many are trapped in a vicious cycle of alcoholism.
She tries to resolve polarities to bring this world into balance. She
learned most of her Indian identity from her great aunt. Harjo was born
1951, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She completed a MFA (Creative Writing) at
the University of Iowa in 1978. She taught at the Institute of American
Indian Arts, Arizona State University, University of Colorado, and the
University of New Mexico. Harjo plays tenor saxophone and has performed
with Poetic Justice, a band in Denver.
http://www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/home/gfloren/harjo.htm
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An
Interview with L.Frank Manriquez
Everyone has a voice or two in their head.
Cartoonist and artist L. Frank has many and they are the barbed, capricious
voices of long-buried Native ancestors. A descendent of the Tongva and
Ajachmem people of southern California, Frank listens intently to these
voices, and forms their insistent messages into creations that demand
a variety of materials. In her hands, soapstone becomes an exquisite
bowl, Native grasses weave themselves into a basket, and an intrepid
Coyote finds himself formed from an ink pen and deposited on crisp,
white paper surrounded by backwards text.
http://www.winds.uthscsa.edu/2000/Winter/w00_books.html
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L.Frank
Manriquez Gallery
http://sawols.tripod.com/l.frank/gallery.html
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N.Scott
Momaday
This site houses a listing of works by
this important NA author
http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/Bookstore/Momaday.htm
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MariJo Moore
MariJo Moore, author/artist/poet/journalist,
is of Cherokee, Irish and Dutch ancestry. Her writings and collages
take integral meaning as they stem from dreams, ancestral memories,
and the many voices of Spirit.
http://www.marijomoore.com/
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Peace Party
Peace Party takes you back to the comic
books of the old days, where the story had as much weight as the drawings.
They went hand in hand as they took the reader through the struggles
the superheroes were going through without the cursing, sex and violence
which is mainstream in today's society.
http://www.bluecorncomics.com/
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Native
American Children's Books, Smith-Leitich…
These on-line resources should be useful
to anyone with an interest in books by or about Native people. Please
let me know if you have any suggestions. This page is also an introduction
to the other Native American children's book pages on this site. They
contain original content and bibliographies with related curriculum
resources.
http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/index1.htm
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Jim
Northrup
Jim Northrup writes a monthly newspaper column, the Fond Du Lac Follies
which is published in The Circle, The Native American Press, and the
News From Indian Country. In his writings, he describes life on the
reservation with candor and wry humor.
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/northrup/
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Greg
Sarris
Greg Sarris is Professor of English at the
University of California, Los Angeles, and has written about the lives
and stories of Native people in the Southwest and West. He is also an
elected chief of the Coast Miwok Nation.
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A384
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Luci
Tapahonso
Luci Tapahonso was born in Shiprock, New Mexico
where she grew up on a farm within the Navajo culture. Tapahonso received
her B.A. and M.A in 1980 and 1983 respectively from the University of
New Mexico. She has taught as assistant professor of English at University
of New Mexico and the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Tapahonso has
served on the Board of Directors at the Phoenix Indian Center, was a
member of the New Mexico Arts Commission Literature Panel, steering
committee of Returning the Gift Writers Festival, Kansas Arts Commission
Literature Panel, Phoenix Arts Commission, Telluride Institute Writers
Forum Advisory Board, and commissioner of Kansas Arts Commission. She
is a memeber of the Modern Language Association, Poets and Writers,
Inc., Association of American Indian and Alaska Native Professors, and
New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities.
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A116
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