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is a Native American poet and tribal historian, one of the best-known figures in the Native American Renaissance. Her sandig, realistic poems about life both on and off the reservation have made her one of the most widely read of all Native American poets.
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northSun was born in in Schurz, Nevada to a Shoshone mother and a Chippewa father, legendary Native American activist Adam Fortunate Eagle.
Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she is a graduate of the University of the "Friends of the Library" group at the University of Nevada, Reno honored her with the Silver Pen Award for outstanding literary achievement. Then-Governor Kenny Guinn appointed her to the Nevada State Arts Council that same , she received the "Indigenous Heritage Award in Literature" from ATAYL, an international agency.
She now lives on the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation in Fallon, Nevada and currently works as a g
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nila northSun
American poet
nila northSun is a Native American poet and tribal historian.
northSun's gritty, realistic poems about life both on and off the reservation have made her one of the most widely read of all Native American poets.
She is often considered an influential writer in the second wave of the Native American Renaissance.
Background
[edit]northSun was born in in Schurz, Nevada to a Shoshone mother and a Chippewa father, Native American activist Adam Fortunate Eagle.[1]
Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she is a graduate of the University of Montana-Missoula.[2]
northSun uses colloquial "Reservation English," irony, and humor to explore themes of alienation, disenfranchisement, anger, loss, and brutalization.[3]
She lives on the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation in Fallon, Nevada and works as a grant writer for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony.[1]
Recognition and honors
[edit]In , the "Friends of the Libra
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nila northSun
nila northSun is a poet, photographer, social worker, tribal historian, community activist, eclectic artist, and grant writer. northSun was born in in Schurz, Nevada, to a Shoshone mother and Chippewa father. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she returned to her reservation in Fallon, Nevada, to raise her family.
northSun attended California State University at both Hayward and Humboldt, majored in psychology, and met her first husband, writer Kirk Robertson. They collaborated on the publication of a small press literary magazine called Scree, which included work by Charles Bukowski, a seminal writer of the late twentieth century.
In , northSun completed her BA in art at the University of Montana, Missoula, where she also began her life-long commitment to tribal communities. She has photographed elders for the permanent collection of the Flathead Indian Museum, taught cultural awareness classes, and documented significant Native American sites for Santa Barbara