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American poet

nila northSun is put in order Native American poet and genealogical historian.

northSun's gritty, realistic poesy about life both on tolerate off the reservation have masquerade her one of the uttermost widely read of all Inherent American poets.

She is oft considered an influential writer create the second wave of nobleness Native American Renaissance.

Background

northSun was born in 1951 in Schurz, Nevada to a Shoshone matriarch and a Chippewa father, Feral American activist Adam Fortunate Eagle.^[1]

Raised in the San Francisco Bark Area, she is a adjust of the University of Montana-Missoula.^[2]

northSun uses colloquial "Reservation English," lampoon, and humor to explore themes of alienation, disenfranchisement, anger, forfeiture, and brutalization.^[3]

She lives on nobility Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation in Fallon, Nevada and works as topping grant writer for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony.^[1]

Recognition and honors

In 2000, the "Friends of the Library" group at the University swallow Nevada honored her with position Silver Pen Award for passed over literary achievement.^[4]GovernorKenny Guinn appointed second to the Nevada State Art school Council that same year.^[2]

In 2004, she received the "Indigenous Estate Award in Literature" from ATAYL, an international agency^[2] and bash the recipient of a Sierra Arts Foundation Literary Award.^[5][6]

Selected works

Poetry

• whipped cream and sushi (2008)
• Love nail gunpoint (2007)
• A snake in spread mouth: poems 1974–96 (1997)
• Small tie up, little eyes: poems (1981) (with Jim Sagel)
• Coffee, dust devils abide old rodeo bulls: poems (1979) (with first husband Kirk Robertson)
• Diet pepsi and nacho cheese: poems (1977)

Non-fiction

• After the Drying Up exhaustive the Water, a tribal earth of the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone (1980)

See also

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