The Poets
last update: 10 Jan 98
The Poets
last update: 10 Jan 98
A note: Not all the bios
are from the same publication as the poem we have chosen. We've tried to
use the best bio
we could find, though some are quite old. In all cases the bios are either
in the poet's words, or from a publication where it would
have needed to be approved. If we could not find a bio, we have left it
blank, rather than write our own.
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The Red Man's Haven |
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Ruby's Welfare |
(Navajo) Esther Belin has a BA from the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently living in Oakland. |
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I walk in the History of my People |
(Menominee) Chrystos [was] born in 1946 and raised in San Francisco. A political activist and speaker, as well as an artist and writer, she is self educated. Her tireless momentum is directed at better understanding how issues of colonialism, genocide, class, and gender affect the lives of women and Native people. |
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Dear John Wayne |
(Chippewa) Louise Erdrich was born in Little Falls,
Minnesota in 1954, the eldest of seven children. Her father and mother
both taught at the Wahpeton (ND) Indian Boarding School, where she attended
primary and secondary school before matriculating to Dartmouth College
in 1972 as one of the first group of women admitted to that institution...She
is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. -bio from LOVE MEDICINE, 1984 |
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Writing a TV Documentary |
(Coeur d'Alene) Janet Campbell Hale was born in Plummer, Idaho. She atttended the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she won First Prize in the Vincent Price Poetry Competition in 1963 ... She went on to attend City College of San Francisco and the University of California at Berkely where she obtained her B.A. in 1972 ... She is married and the mother of two children. |
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Lakota Warrior |
(Oglala[Sioux]) Arthur J Harvey was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He is ... 28 years old [in 1993]. What brought him to the Southwest was the landscape and a desire to become a voice of Native American people through his writing. This is his first published work. |
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Responses |
(Huron/Tsalagi[Cherokee])A A Hedge Coke is Huron/Tsalagi/French Canadian/Portuguese. She has been previously published in several small press magazines. She lives in Santa Fe. |
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The Living Exhibit Under the Museum's Portal |
(Pueblo) Nora Naranjo-Morse says of the time that she first picked up a lump of clay: "I'll never forget that...I just started feeling it, and I knew that was the time." ... In addition to having taught the techniques of Santa Clara Pueblo pottery throughout the American West, Denmark and Germany [she] has exhibited her work in galleries all around the country and has published her poetry... |
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Leftovers |
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Acoma |
(Yuki) poet, journalist, editor, publisher. Born at Round Valley Reservation in Northern California in 1947. Founder and publisher of A Press...Was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. Lives in Santa Fe, but currently studying in Chicago. |
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The Significance of a Veteran's Day |
(Acoma Pueblo) poet, short story writer, teacher, born at Acoma Pueblo in 1941, lives in Kentfield, California. |
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Three Thousand Dollar Death Song |
(Hopi/Miwok) I was born in 1948. Author of seven poetry books. Editor
of American Indian Quarterly. I live in Leftovers, California (El Sobrante),
with a magician and a middle aged cat. - bio from A GATHERING OF SPIRIT, 1984 |
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