 | This biographical article is written like a résumé .(July 2019) |
Cheryl Savageau (born April 14, 1950) is an American writer and poet who self-identifies as being of Abenaki descent.
| This biographical article is written like a résumé .(July 2019) |
Cheryl Savageau (born April 14, 1950) is an American writer and poet who self-identifies as being of Abenaki descent.
Savageau is of self-identified Abenaki and French descent. [1] She claims that her father, Paul Savageau is of French and Abenaki descent, and that her mother, Cecile Meunier Savageau, [2] is French-Canadian.
Savageau was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, but grew up in a small island neighborhood on Lake Quinsigamond in Shrewsbury. She refers to this lake and her childhood growing up along the shore in her children's book Muskrat Will Be Swimming. She graduated from Clark University with a Bachelor of Science degree with focus on English and Philosophy.
It was in college that she really discovered her passion for writing and the connection it gave her to readers. Poetry and storytelling became Savageau's outlet for sharing stories about her ancestors and her Native culture. [3]
She was a founding member of Oak and Stone Storytellers, a storytelling group that told stories in concert to adults as well as to children in schools and libraries. [4] [ failed verification ]
During her career, Savageau has won numerous awards for her work. Her children's book, Muskrat Will Be Swimming, was a Smithsonian Notable Book (1996) award winner, won the Skipping Stones Award for children's Environmental Books (1997), and the Best Children's Book Award (1997), from Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. [5] For her work mentoring young and beginning writers, she was awarded Mentor of the Year from Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers (1998). [6] [ failed verification ]
Savageau has also won various fellowships for poetry including the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. [7]
Her writing focuses on retelling Abenaki stories, including the stories of women and the working class. [8] Also a visual artist, she has exhibited her quilts, [9] paintings and other works. [10] [11]
Out of the Crazywoods. University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln). 2020. ISBN 9781496219039.
Muskrat Will Be Swimming . Rising Moon. 1996. ISBN 9780873586047.
Luci Tapahonso is a Navajo poet and a lecturer in Native American Studies. She is the first poet laureate of the Navajo Nation, succeeded by Laura Tohe.
Linda K. Hogan is an American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories. She previously served as the Chickasaw Nation's writer in residence. Hogan is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms. Harjo is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late 20th century. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts, completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976, and earned an MFA degree at the University of Iowa in its creative writing program.
Joseph Bruchac is an American writer and storyteller based in New York.
Jack Ridl is an American poet, and was a professor of English at Hope College.
Anita Endrezze is an American poet, writer, and artist based in Washington.
Native American literature is literature, both oral and written, produced by Native Americans in what is now the United States, from pre-Columbian times through to today. Famous authors include N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, Joy Harjo, Sherman Alexie, D'Arcy McNickle, James Welch, Charles Eastman, Mourning Dove, Zitkala-Sa, John Rollin Ridge, Lynn Riggs, Hanay Geiogamah, William Apess, Samson Occom, Gerald Vizenor, Stephen Graham Jones, et al. Importantly, it is not "a" literature, but a set of literatures, since every tribe has its own cultural traditions. Since the 1960s, it has also become a significant field of literary studies, with academic journals, departments, and conferences devoted to the subject.
Carol Willette Bachofner is an American poet of Abenaki descent. She currently resides in Rockland, Maine. She is the co-founder and editor of the online literary journal, Pulse, established in 1997. She has also published several collections of her own poetry, including Native Moons, Native Days, as well as Drink from Your Own Wells: a guide to richer writing.
Suzanne S. Rancourt is a poet and veteran of both the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army as well being an Abenaki and Huron descendant. She was born and raised in west central Maine. She has written a collection of poetry called Billboard in the Clouds, which won the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas First Book Award in 2001, and some of her other work also appears in The Journal of Military Experience, Volume II. Her work has also been published in the literary journals Callaloo and The Cimarron Review, as well as many other anthologies.
Mihku Paul is a First Nations poet, visual artist, storyteller, and activist. She was born into the Maliseet Nation and she is a member of Kingsclear First Nation in New Brunswick, Canada. Mihku Paul currently resides in Portland, Maine where she teaches creative writing at the Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England.
Alice Azure is an American poet and writer. She is a member of the St. Louis Poetry Center.
Paulla Dove Jennings is a Narragansett storyteller, educator, and children's book author.
Zara Cisco Brough, also called Princess White Flower, served as the Chief of the Nipmuc Nation, a state-recognized tribe in Massachusetts, from 1962 until 1987. She is best known for her work to preserve Nipmuc heritage.
Jesse Bowman Bruchac is an author and language teacher from the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, a state-recognized tribe in Vermont. He has dedicated much of his life to studying the Abenaki language and preserving the Abenaki culture. He created the first Abenaki language website.
Shirley Bear was a Wolastoqiyik artist, traditional herbalist, poet, and activist from Tobique First Nation, part of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
ssipsis was a Penobscot poet, social worker, visual artist, writer, editor and storyteller. Much of her work was focused on and inspired by the advancement of Indigenous people.
Wowaus, also known as James Printer, was an early Nipmuc writer who helped create the first Indian Bibles in the Massachusett language, which were used by English colonists in the cultural assimilation of Native Americans.
"The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp" is widely anthologized short poem by Martín Espada.
Elizabeth Mary Sadoques Mason was one of the first Native American Registered Nurses known in United States. Though not much is known about her career, Elizabeth finished nursing school in New York in 1919 and worked as a nurse to artist Abbot Handerson Thayer.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)Savageau's newest book, Mother/Land, appeared in 2006 in Salt Publishing's Earthworks series, edited by Janet McAdams; this will put her even more visibly in the company of such esteemed poets as Carter Revard, Diane Glancy, and Heid Erdrich.
{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
