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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/ref/native
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Native
Authors on the Web
To celebrate Native American Heritage Month
AuthorsOnTheWeb.com, a website from The Book Report Network, assembled
a roundtable discussion featuring 10 acclaimed writers who have Native
American backgrounds and/or write about Native American culture.
http://www.authorsontheweb.com/features/0211-native-american/native-american.asp
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The Official Sherman
Alexie Site
Your source for all the Sherman Alexie madness
you can handle
http://www.fallsapart.com/index.html
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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/cgi/ref/native/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://members.tripod.com/~Sawols/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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Simon
Ortiz
Simon Ortiz was born in Albuquerque,
New Mexico on May 27, 1941. Ortiz attended the Bureau of Indian Affairs
school in McCartys, New Mexicothrough grade six, at which time he
transferred to St. Catherine’s Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
After high school Ortiz went to work in the Uranium mining industry
in Grants, New Mexico. That job only lasted a year. According to Marie
Schein, "Ortiz went on to college to pursue a career as a chemist,
but found instead that he was more interested in writing."
http://web.nmsu.edu/~tomlynch/swlit.ortiz.html
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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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Navajo Spaceships,
Star Mountain and Rez Memories: an online writing journal
I named my website Navajo Spaceships because I envisioned it to be
a flight into the imagination, taking us to a higher place. I am Navajo.
Please take a minute and read some of these stories. I don’t have
any professional writing experience, so I am a new born in this area.
If you want to send me a thought or some of your experiences please
Above you will see different pages on this site
http://www.geocities.com/rustywire/
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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/cgi/ref/native/browse.pl/A384
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Virginia
Sneve to Receive 1997 Living Indian Treasure Award
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve of Rapid
City, a prominent educator and writer, has been selected to receive
the eighth annual South Dakota Living Indian Treasure Award, to be
presented Saturday, Sept. 27, as part of the Northern Plains Tribal
Arts Market in Sioux Falls.
http://www.usd.edu/urelations/news/archives/1997/September/september10.html
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Voices
From the Gap
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (last name
rhymes with "navy") was born on February 21, 1933. She was
raised on the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota and is an enrolled
member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe.
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/VirginiaDrivingHawkSneve.html
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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/cgi/ref/native/browse.pl/A116
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Gerald
Vizenor
Gerald
Vizenor was born in Minneapolis. He is an enrolled member of the Minnesota
Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. Vizenor attended New York
University for one year, transferring to the University of Minnesota
where he earned his B.A. in 1960. His graduate studies include University
of Minnesota and Harvard University. His career includes work for
the Minnesota Department of Corrections, and the Minneapolis Tribune.
Vizenor's teaching career includes professorships at Lake Forest College,
Bemidji State University, University of Minnesota, University of Oklahoma,
University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California,
Santa Cruz.
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/vizenor/
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Gerald
Vizenor - Minnesota Authors Biography Project
Before
Vizenor was four years old, his father was murdered, he lived in several
foster homes, he moved back in with his mother and stepfather, he
was abandoned by his mother (although later they reconciled), and,
when he was fifteen years old, his stepfather was killed in a work
accident. His father was Anishinaabe (Chippewa), and Vizenor spent
considerable time on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota
with his father's family.
http://people.mnhs.org/authors/biog_detail.cfm?PersonID=Vize363
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