Category: Events
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Native American Heritage Month: Eden Robinson
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Eden RobinsonEden 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 on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly…
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Native American Heritage Month: N. Scott Momaday
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: N. Scott MomadayN. 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 Momaday identifies as Kiowa. About a year after Momaday was…
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Native American Heritage Month: Leslie Marmon Silko
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Leslie Marmon SilkoLeslie 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 on the edge of the Laguna Pueblo reservation but was…
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National American Indian Heritage Month: an Introduction and Sherman Alexie
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Read More: National American Indian Heritage Month: an Introduction and Sherman AlexieNovember 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 of national recognition for the American Indian since the founding…
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Filipino American History Month: N.V.M. Gonzalez
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Read More: Filipino American History Month: N.V.M. GonzalezN.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 a young age. He learned to play the violin and…
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LGBT History Month: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman
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Read More: 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 Whitman. Despite very different poetic styles, the two have a few…
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LGBT and Filipino American History Month: Noel Alumit
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Read More: LGBT and Filipino American History Month: Noel AlumitNoel Alumit is a novelist, actor, and activist. He was born in Baguio City, The Philippines, and grew up in Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles. Alumit earned his BFA in Drama from the University of Southern California and is currently working toward his Masters in Divinity at the University of the West.…
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Filipino American History Month: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
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Read More: Filipino American History Month: Cecilia Manguerra BrainardAuthor and editor, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard was born and raised in the Philippines. The death of her father when she was nine prompted her to start writing, first in journals, then essays and fiction. She went to college in the Philippines, then did graduate work at UCLA. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is…
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Filipino American History Month: Jessica Hagedorn
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Read More: Filipino American History Month: Jessica HagedornI write really because I have to and if the writing also destroys some of those myths and subverts forms and makes people question the very idea of the writer, the woman, the Filipino-American, the whatever, great! ~Jessica Hagedorn Playwright, writer, poet, and multimedia performance artist Jessica Hagedorn was born…