Four American Indian Authors from Minnesota

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Four American Indian Authors from Minnesota

• Presented by
• Heid E. Erdrich

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Jim Northrup

• It's impossible to write about Native life
  without humorthat's how people maintain
  sanity.--Louise Erdrich

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Jim Northrup

• Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe
• Poet, syndicated columnist, dramatist, performer
  and storyteller
• Grandfather (Joe Northrup) wrote and published
  stories and a novel titled Wawina in the late
  1920s

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Works by Jim Northrup

• Walking the Rez Road
• Rez Road Foliies
• Stories Poems in
• Touchwood anthology (New Rivers Press)
• Stories Migrating Home (Loon Feather Press)
• --see full bibliography

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Documentary on Northrup

• DVD Jim Northrup, With Reservations
• (available via library loan or order on-line)
• http//thecie.org/order/

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Northrup Links

• Biography Bibliography
• Website

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Kimberly Blaeser

• White Earth Ojibwe
• Poet, literary critic.editor and essayist
• Biography Bibliography
• Voices from the Gaps page

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Diane Wilson

• Dakota descendant
• Non-fiction author
• Website
• On the award-winning Spirit Car

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Gordon Henry

• White Earth Ojibwe
• Fiction author, poet, editor, scholar
• Internet Public Library
• The Light People, a novel-in-forms

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Other Minnesota Authors

• Dakota
• Susan Power (novelist)
• Steve Pacheco (poet included in Shedding Skins
  anthology)
• Ojibwe
• Winona LaDuke (novel and essays)
• Marcie Rendon (poetry and plays)
• David Treuer (novels)
• Gerald Vizenor (all genres)
• AUTHOR PROFILES ON NATIVE WIKI