Tag: Native American Heritage Month
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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…