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Native American Heritage Month: Wendy Rose
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Wendy RoseWendy Rose was born in 1948 in Oakland, California, growing up in the white community of San Francisco. While Rose is part Hopi and Miwok, she grew up far from the traditions of her Native American identity. This lack of engagement with her Native American ancestry has influenced her poetry,…
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Camille Dungy Awarded NEA Creative Writing Fellowship
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Read More: Camille Dungy Awarded NEA Creative Writing FellowshipEnglish Professor Camille Dungy has been awarded a prestigious $25,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA has a long history of providing funding for the creation and translation of some of the world’s best literature. The fellowships are highly competitive, with awards split between Creative Writing…
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Native American Heritage Month: Qwo-Li Driskill and Transgender Days of Remembrance
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Qwo-Li Driskill and Transgender Days of RemembranceToday at Colorado State is Transgender Day of Remembrance. The Pride Resource Center will host a reception at 5:30 pm with the event beginning at 6:00 pm. This event will be a time for “honoring, recognition, and remembrance.” In light of this vigil and Native American Heritage Month, it’s important…
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Native American Heritage Month: Paula Gunn Allen
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Paula Gunn AllenPaula Gunn Allen grew up in the 1940s in Cubero, New Mexico, right outside the Laguna Pueblo reservation. Despite mixed heritage (Lebanese-American, Laguna, Sioux, and Scottish), Allen identified most closely with the Laguna Pueblo culture which she grew up in. Allen initially left college to get married, but after two…
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Native American Heritage Month: David Treuer
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: David TreuerProfessor. Writer. Critic. Academic. David Treuer was born in 1970 and is a member of the Ojibwe tribe, people who live mainly in Canada and the northern United States. They are one of the largest groups of indigenous people north of the Rio Grande. Treuer’s father Robert, a Holocaust survivor,…
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Native American Heritage Month: Janet Campbell Hale
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Janet Campbell HaleIf 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. ~The Jailing of Cecelia Capture, Janet Campbell Hale Born in…
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Native American Heritage Month: Louise Erdrich
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Louise ErdrichLouis 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 Indian Affairs. Erdich’s Native American identity comes from her mother’s…
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Native American Heritage Month: James Welch
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Read More: 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 to come. ~James Welch As an undergraduate at Oregon State…