Native American Heritage Month: Janet Campbell Hale
If you were going to compete successfully in a white man’s world, you had to learn to play the white man’s game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian has to be better than. […]
Native American Heritage Month: Barney Bush
Barney Bush, not to be confused with George W. Bush’s dog by the same name, is a Shawnee/Cayuga poet and activist. Bush was born in 1946 in Illinois. After completing high school, Bush hitchhiked across the United States for several […]
Native American Heritage Month: Louise Erdrich
Louis Erdich was born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota. She was the oldest child from a large family of seven. Her parents were teachers who taught at a boarding school in Wahpeton, North Dakota, established by the Bureau of […]
Native American Heritage Month: James Welch
~from Jill Salahub Indian writers might come from different eras, from different geographies, from different tribes, but we all have one thing in common: We are storytellers from a long way back. And we will be heard for generations […]
Native American Heritage Month: Eden Robinson
Eden Victoria Lena Robinson was born in 1968 in the Haisla First Nation, located in British Columbia, Canada. Robinson is part of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. As her bio on Penguin Random House Canada explains, “I was born […]
Native American Heritage Month: N. Scott Momaday
N. Scott Momaday’s journey began in Oklahoma, where he was born to Natachee Scott Momaday and Alfred Morris Momaday, a writer and a painter, respectively. Momaday’s father is full-blood Kiowa, while his mother is English, Irish, French, and Cherokee, but […]
Native American Heritage Month: Leslie Marmon Silko
Leslie Marmon Silko is a writer, educator and filmmaker, and someone who has helped influence the Native American Renaissance. Silko was born in 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her identity as ¼ Laguna Pueblo influenced her childhood. She grew up […]
National American Indian Heritage Month: an Introduction and Sherman Alexie
November is Native American Heritage Month. A Cherokee American Indian, J.C. Elliott-High Eagle, authored the legislation for American Indian Awareness Week in October of 1976 and it was signed by President Gerald R. Ford. This became the first official week […]
Filipino American History Month: N.V.M. Gonzalez
N.V.M Gonzalez, an important icon among the Filipino literary community, feels like a fitting way to wrap up Filipino American History Month. Born in the Philippines in 1915 in the province of Oriental Mindoro, Gonzalez expressed passion for music at […]
LGBT History Month: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman
~by Michaela Hayes To wrap up CSU English’s celebration of LGBT history month, today we are taking a look at arguably two of the greatest poets of American history, and certainly the most influential of the 19th century– Emily Dickinson and Walt […]