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Four American Indian Authors from Minnesota

Four American Indian Authors from Minnesota. Presented by Heid E. Erdrich. Jim Northrup. It's impossible to write about Native life without humor—that's how people maintain sanity. --Louise Erdrich. Jim Northrup. Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe

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Four American Indian Authors from Minnesota

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  1. Four American Indian Authors from Minnesota Presented by Heid E. Erdrich

  2. Jim Northrup It's impossible to write about Native life without humor—that's how people maintain sanity.--Louise Erdrich

  3. 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 1920’s

  4. 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

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

  6. Northrup Links • Biography & Bibliography • Website

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

  8. Diane Wilson • Dakota descendant • Non-fiction author • Website • On the award-winning Spirit Car

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

  10. 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

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