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LaPointe has a double MFA in creative nonfiction and poetry. [3] She graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2018. [4] LaPointe is an enrolled member in the Nooksack Tribe. [5] Her great grandmother Vi taqʷšəblu Hilbert was a revered elder of the Upper Skagit Tribe, [6] who has served as an inspiration for her writing. [7]
Niatum established himself as one of the most influential promoters of Native American poetry when he served as editor of a Native American author series at Harper & Row Publishers, where he edited two influential anthologies: Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry (1975) and Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry (1988).
Native American pieces of literature come out of a rich set of oral traditions from before European contact and/or the later adoption of European writing practices. Oral traditions include not only narrative story-telling, but also the songs, chants, and poetry used for rituals and ceremonies.
Gloria Bird (born 1951) is a Native American poet, essayist, teacher and a member of the Spokane Tribe in Washington State. [1] Gloria spreads her work not only by writing for her but all Native American people. [2] In her work, Bird’s main priority is to question and diminish harmful stereotypes placed on Native American people.
Joseph Bruchac (born October 16, 1942) is an American writer and storyteller based in New York.. He writes about Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a particular focus on northeastern Native American lives and folklore.
Linda K. Hogan (née Henderson, born July 16, 1947) is an American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories. [2] She previously served as the Chickasaw Nation 's writer in residence. [ 3 ]
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82283-1. Senier, Sionhan, ed. (2014). Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-4686-7. Sigafus, Kim; Ernst, Lyle (2012-04-01). Native Writers: Voices of Power ...
Her first book of poetry, Trailing You, was awarded the 1993 Diane Decorah First Book Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, and she was the first critic to publish a book-length study of the fiction of her fellow White Earth Ojibwe writer, Gerald Vizenor.