Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is a Crow Creek
Lakota Sioux
editor, essayist, poet, novelist, and academic, whose trenchant views on Native American
politics, particularly tribal sovereignty, have caused controversy.
Cook-Lynn co-founded Wíčazo Ša Review
("Red Pencil"), an academic journal devoted to the development of Native American studies
as an academic discipline. She retired from her long academic career at Eastern Washington University
in 1993, returning to her home in Rapid City, South Dakota. She has held several visiting professorships since retirement. In 2009, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas
.
Crow Creek Reservation
The Crow Creek Indian Reservation is located in parts of Buffalo, Hughes, and Hyde counties on the east bank of the Missouri River in central South Dakota in the United States. It has a land area of 421.658 sq mi and a 2000 census population of 2,225 persons...
Lakota Sioux
Sioux
The Sioux are Native American and First Nations people in North America. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or any of the nation's many language dialects...
editor, essayist, poet, novelist, and academic, whose trenchant views on Native American
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
politics, particularly tribal sovereignty, have caused controversy.
Cook-Lynn co-founded Wíčazo Ša Review
Wicazo sa review
The Wíčazo Ša Review is a bi-annual interdisciplinary journal of Native American Studies. Dedicated to the mission of assisting Indigenous peoples across the Americas, the Wíčazo Ša Review compiles inquiries into the Indigenous past and its integral relationship to the present...
("Red Pencil"), an academic journal devoted to the development of Native American studies
Native American Studies
Native American Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas...
as an academic discipline. She retired from her long academic career at Eastern Washington University
Eastern Washington University
Eastern Washington University is an American public, coeducational university located in Cheney, Washington.Founded in 1882, the university is academically divided into four colleges: Arts and Letters; Business and Public Administration; Science, Health and Engineering; and Social & Behavioral...
in 1993, returning to her home in Rapid City, South Dakota. She has held several visiting professorships since retirement. In 2009, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas
Native Writers' Circle of the Americas
The Native Writers' Circle of the Americas is an organization of Native American writers, most notable for its literary awards, presented annually to Native American writers in three categories: First Book of Poetry, First Book of Prose, and Lifetime Achievement...
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Fiction
- Aurelia : a Crow Creek trilogy (Niwot, CO: Colorado UP, 1999)
- From the river's edge (NY: Arcade, 1991).
Poetry
- I remember the fallen trees : new and selected poems (Cheney, WA: Eastern Washington UP, 1998).
Short stories
- The power of horses and other stories (NY: Arcade, 1990).
- Seek the house of relatives (Marvin, SD: Blue Cloud Quarterly Press, 1983).
- Then Badger said this (Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1983).
Non-fiction
- Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth (Illinois UP 2001).
- Politics of Hallowed Ground : Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty (with Mario Gonzalez) (Illinois UP, 1999).
- Why I can't read Wallace Stegner and other essays : a tribal voice (Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1996).
See also
- List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
- Native American RenaissanceNative American RenaissanceThe Native American Renaissance was a term originally coined by critic Kenneth Lincoln in his 1983 book of the same title. Lincoln’s goal was to explore the explosion in production of literary works by Native Americans in the decade and a half after N. Scott Momaday had won the Pulitzer Prize in...
- Native American StudiesNative American StudiesNative American Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas...