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American Indian Youth Literature Awards
The ''American Indian Library Association American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ... (AILA) awards'' are presented every two years to recognize the most outstanding contributions to children's literature by and about American Indians. The awards were established as a way to identify and honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians. Books selected to receive the award will present American Indians in the fullness of their humanity in the present and past contexts. History The first American Indian Library Association American Indian Youth Literature Awards were presented during the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color in 2006. Criteria * Authors (for illustrated books, both author AND illustrator) must be recognized by the Native community of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Indian Library Association
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Florence
Melanie Florence is a Canadian author of Cree and Scottish heritage. Writings Florence lives in Toronto, Ontario, but several of her books are informed by the experiences of her grandfather, who attended one of Canada's infamous residential schools. She writes both fiction and non-fiction for children and young adult audiences. Her books are about historical and contemporary issues affecting indigenous people. In 2016, Florence was awarded the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for her picture book, ''Missing Nimâmâ''. The book tells the story of a young, indigenous mother, a missing woman, watching from afar as her daughter grows up. The prize is one of the largest in Canadian children's literature. Works *''Jordin Tootoo: The Highs and Lows in the Journey of the First Inuit to Play in the NHL'' (Lorimer, 2011, ) *''Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools'' (Lorimer, 2015, ) *''Missing Nimâmâ'' (illustrated by Francois Thisdale, Clockwise, 2015, ) *''One Night ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dauenhauer
Richard Dauenhauer (April 10, 1942 – August 19, 2014) was an American poet, linguist, and translator who married into, and subsequently became an expert on, the Tlingit nation of southeastern Alaska. He was married to the Tlingit poet and scholar Nora Marks Dauenhauer. With his wife and Lydia T. Black, he won an American Book Award for ''Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804'' Life Dauenhauer was born in Syracuse, New York. His B.A. was from Syracuse University in Slavic Languages and his M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in German. He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a dissertation titled ''Text and Context of Tlingit Oral Tradition.'' He became a professor of literature at Alaska Methodist University in Anchorage, where he came in contact with the Tlingit people. In 1973 he married his second wife Nora, and became an honorary member of the Tlingit people.. From 1981 to 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Marks Dauenhauer
Nora Marks Keixwnéi Dauenhauer (May 8, 1927 – September 25, 2017) was a Tlingit poet, short-story writer, and Tlingit language scholar from Alaska. She won an American Book Award for ''Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804.'' Nora was Alaska State Writer Laureate from 2012 - 2014. Early life Nora Marks was born May 8, 1927, the first of 16 children of Emma Marks (1913–2006) of Yakutat, Alaska, and Willie Marks (1902–1981), a Tlingit from Hoonah, Alaska. Nora's Tlingit name at birth was Keix̱wnéi. Dauenhauer was raised in Juneau, Hoonah, on seasonal hunting and fishing sites around Icy Straits, Glacier Bay, and Cape Spencer. Dauenhauer's first language is Tlingit, following her mother in the Tlingit matrilineal system, she was a member of the Raven moiety of the Tlingit nation, of the Yakutat Lukaax̱.ádi (Sockeye Salmon) clan, and of the ''Shaka Hít'' or Canoe Prow House, from Alsek River. In 1986 she was chosen as clan co-leader Yakutat Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangeline Parsons Yazzie
Evangeline Parsons Yazzie ( 1952 – May 22, 2022) was a Navajo educator and author of the first textbook adopted by the U.S. public education system to teach the Navajo language. Life Yazzie received a Master of Arts degree in Bilingual Multicultural Education and a Doctorate in Education from Northern Arizona University (NAU) where she taught Navajo language courses for 24 years until 2014. In 2007, Yazzie co-authored a textbook for teaching the Navajo language titled ''Diné Bizaad Bínáhooʼaah: Rediscovering the Navajo Language'' along with Margaret Speas, a professor of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts. In 2008, New Mexico adopted the textbook making itself the first U.S. state to officially use any text for teaching the Navajo language in its public school system. Following her retirement in 2014, Yazzie authored several novels about a fictional family's experience of the Long Walk of the Navajo The Long Walk of the Navajo, also called the Long Walk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Charleyboy
Lisa Charleyboy is a First Nations ( Tsilhqot’in) writer, storyteller, editor, and social entrepreneur. She is the editor-in-chief of ''Urban Native Magazine'', which focuses on popular culture from an Indigenous perspective. She makes frequent appearances on radio and television, promoting her magazine and giving her opinion on current Aboriginal issues in Canada. Charleyboy has said in interviews that she considers herself a feminist and that she wants to provide positive representations of Aboriginal people in her magazine. Charleyboy has written about cultural appropriation, popular culture, and politics, and has been named one of Toronto’s Top Bloggers and one of Canada’s Top Ten Fashion Bloggers. In 2013, she was named by ''Huffington Post'' as one of three Aboriginal millennials to watch, and recommended for a Toronto DiverseCity Fellowship for 2013-2014. Early life and education Charleyboy moved from Abbotsford, British Columbia to Toronto to attend Ryerson University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Marshall III
Joseph M. Marshall III (born c. 1946, Brulé Lakota, Sicangu Oyate) son of Joseph Nelson Marshall Sr. and Hazel Lorraine Two Hawk-Marshall, is a historian, writer, teacher, craftsman, administrator, actor, and public speaker. He was a founding board member in 1971 of Sinte Gleska University, the tribal college at the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Marshall has published numerous non-fiction books based on Lakota oral history and culture. His book, ''The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn,'' won the 2008 PEN/Beyond Margins Award. Biography Joseph Marshall III was born and raised on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and is an enrolled member of the federally recognized Sicangu Oyate (Rosebud Sioux, Lakota) tribe. He was raised in a traditional Lakota household by his maternal grandparents, where his first language was Lakota. He grew up in the Horse Creek Community near White River (''Maka Izita Wakpa,'' meaning "Smoking Earth River"). He learned English as a second la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Flett
Julie Flett is a Cree- Métis author and illustrator, known for her work in children's literature centered around the life and cultures of Indigenous Canadians. Flett is best known for her illustrations in books such as ''Little You,'' and ''When We were Alone,'' as well as for her written work in books such as ''Birdsong.'' Many of Flett's books are bilingual, and written in a combination of English, Michif, and Cree, and serve as an introduction to Michif and Cree for English-speaking readers. Flett's works are critically successful and have been awarded the Governor General's Literary Award and the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. Flett is also known for her advocacy work in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighborhood with indigenous youth and other community members. Flett is also involved in efforts to preserve and share indigenous languages among English-speaking populations. Personal life Flett was born in Toronto, Ontario where she lived with her Swampy-Cree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Van Camp
Richard Van Camp (born September 8, 1971) is a Dogrib Tłı̨chǫ writer of the Dene nation from Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada."About a boy: Richard Van Camp and The Lesser Blessed" '''', November 2012. He is best known for his 1996 novel '' The Lesser Blessed'', which was adapted into a film by director in 2012. Life and wo ...
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Eric Gansworth
Eric Gansworth is a Haudenosaunee novelist, poet and visual artist. Early life Gansworth was born in 1965 and is an enrolled citizen of the Onondaga Nation; however, he grew up in the Tuscarora Nation as a descendant of one of two Onondaga women present among the Tuscarora at the foundation of the nation in the 18th century. Gansworth originally qualified in electroencephalography, considered a profession useful to his nation; however, he went on to study literature and to continue a lifelong interest in painting and drawing. Work Gansworth has written five novels, including the award-winning ''Mending Skins'' (2005) and ''Extra Indians'' (2010). In all his novels, illustrations form an integral part of the reading experience. His critically acclaimed first young adult novel, ''If I Ever Get out of Here'', deals with the friendship between two boys, one a resident of the Tuscarora Nation, the other living on the nearby Air Force base. In a starred review, ''Booklist'' stated tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomson Highway
Tomson Highway (born 6 December 1951) is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, novelist, and children's author. He is best known for his plays ''The Rez Sisters'' and ''Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing'', both of which won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award. Highway also published a novel, '' Kiss of the Fur Queen'' (1998), which is based on the events that led to his brother René Highway's death of AIDS. He wrote the libretto for the first Cree language opera, ''The Journey or Pimooteewin''. Biography Tomson Highway was born on 6 December 1951 in northwestern Manitoba to Balazee Highway and Joe Highway, a caribou hunter and champion dogsled racer. Cree is his first language and he was raised according to Cree tradition before being sent to residential school. He is related to actor/playwright Billy Merasty. When he was six, Tomson was taken from his family and sent to Guy Hill Indian Residential School. Until he was fifte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Fortunate Eagle
Adam Fortunate Eagle L.H.D. (born Adam Nordwall), hereditary member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, is a Native American activist and was the principal organizer of the 1969–1971 Occupation of Alcatraz by "Indians of All Tribes". Early life Born in the missionary section of the Red Lake Indian Reservation in 1929, Nordwall was the son of a Swedish man and an Ojibwe woman. When he was five, his father died, leaving his mother no choice but to send him and four other children away to boarding school. He attended the Pipestone Indian School in Minnesota and the Haskell Institute in Kansas, where he took advantage of the time to improve many skills that would help him later in life as well as escape the Great Depression, famine, and disease that was running rampant on reservations at the time. There he met his future wife, the Shoshone Indian Bobbie. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
