nila northSun

nila northSun
nila northSun
Born 1951
Schurz, Nevada, U.S.A.
Occupation Poet
Literary movement Native American Renaissance
Notable work(s) A snake in her mouth: poems 1974-96

nila northSun [sic] is a Native American poet and tribal historian, one of the best-known figures in the Native American Renaissance. Her 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.

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Background

northSun was born in 1951 in Schurz, Nevada to a Shoshone mother and a Chippewa father, legendary 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] In 2000 the "Friends of the Library" group at the University of Nevada honored her with the Silver Pen Award for outstanding literary achievement.[3] Then-Governor Kenny Guinn appointed her to the Nevada State Arts Council that same year.[2] In 2004, she received the "Indigenous Heritage Award in Literature" from ATAYL, an international agency.[2]

She now lives on the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation in Fallon, Nevada and currently works as a grantswriter for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony.[1]

Bibliography

Poetry

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

Non-fiction

  • After the Drying Up of the Water, a tribal history of the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone, 1980

See also

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Notes

  1. ^ a b R.L. Crow: nila northSun, R.L. Crow Publications, 2004
  2. ^ a b c Thomas Meyers: brief biography of nila northSun, The Online Nevada Encyclopedia, February 13, 2008
  3. ^ Silver Pen Award recipient

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