Richard Dauenhauer
Encyclopedia
Richard Dauenhauer is an American poet and translator who has married into, and become an expert on, the Tlingit nation of southeastern Alaska
. His wife is the Tlingit poet and scholar Nora Marks Dauenhauer
. He won an American Book Award
for Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804
, with a dissertation titled Text and Context of Tlingit Oral Tradition.
From 1981 to 1988, he was the poet laureate of Alaska.
Together the Dauenhauers are the editors of the Sealaska
Heritage Foundation's highly regarded Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature series.
He lives in Juneau.
His papers are held at University of Alaska Anchorage
.
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
. His wife is the Tlingit poet and scholar Nora Marks Dauenhauer
Nora Marks Dauenhauer
Nora Marks Dauenhauer is an American poet and short-story writer and a scholar of the language and traditions of the Tlingit aboriginal nation in Alaska, of which she is a member...
. He won an American Book Award
American Book Award
The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre...
for Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804
Life
He earned his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin–MadisonUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...
, with a dissertation titled Text and Context of Tlingit Oral Tradition.
From 1981 to 1988, he was the poet laureate of Alaska.
Together the Dauenhauers are the editors of the Sealaska
Sealaska
Sealaska Corporation is the largest of thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 in settlement of aboriginal land claims. Sealaska was incorporated in Alaska on June 16, 1972...
Heritage Foundation's highly regarded Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature series.
He lives in Juneau.
His papers are held at University of Alaska Anchorage
University of Alaska Anchorage
The University of Alaska Anchorage is the largest school of the University of Alaska System, with about 16,500 students, about 14,000 of whom attend classes at Goose Lake, its main campus in Anchorage....
.
Works
- (1982) "Two Missions to Alaska." Pacific Historian, vol. 26, pp. 29–41.
- (1990) "Education in Russian Alaska." In: Russian America: The Forgotten Frontier, ed. by Barbara Smith and Redmond J. Barnett, pp. 155–163. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society.
- (with Nora Marks Dauenhauer) (eds.) (1981) "Because We Cherish You ...": Sealaska Elders Speak to the Future. Juneau: Sealaska Heritage Foundation.
- (with Nora Marks Dauenhauer) (eds.) (1987) Haa Shuká, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives. (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 1.) Seattle: University of Washington Press.
- (with Nora Marks Dauenhauer) (eds.) (1990) Haa Tuwanáagu Yís, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory. (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 2.) Seattle: University of Washington Press.
- (with Nora Marks Dauenhauer) (eds.) (1994) Haa Kusteeyí, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories. (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 3.) Seattle: University of Washington Press.