Diane Glancy is a teacher, poet, author and playwright. She was born in 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri, to a Cherokee father and an English/German mother. Early in her life, she chose to identify as a Cherokee Native American, accepting the consequences […]
Charles Eastman, born Hakadah in 1858, was a Santee Dakota author, national lecturer, and activist for Native American rights. Eastman was born on a Santee Dakota reservation near Redwood Falls, Minnesota where he grew up under the care of his […]
Winona LaDuke is an environmentalist, economist, and writer. Her father was from the Ojibwe White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, and her mother of Jewish European ancestry from the Bronx, New York. LaDuke was born in Los Angeles, California, but raised mostly […]
Wendy 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 […]
Today 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 […]
Professor. 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
~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 […]