Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Elizabeth Cook -Lynn ( born November 17, 1930 in Fort Thompson, South Dakota) is an indigenous North American author and professor.

Life

Cook -Lynn is a member of the tribe of the Crow Creek Sioux, where her father and grandfather long-standing members of the Tribal Council were. She studied English Language and Literature at South Dakota State College, New Mexico State University and Black Hills State College. She married, had four children and earned only after her divorce more degrees in education and psychology. From 1971 she was a professor of English and Native American Studies at Eastern Washington University before she retired in 1990. Since her retirement she published numerous non-fiction, poetry books and novels on topics related to Native Americans and is co-founder of Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies.

Had significant influence on her writing according to information their family tribal heritage, the Landschschaft the northern Great Plains and the writings of N. Scott Momaday. As the main motivation for their literary activity she calls anger and the will to open disobedience to survive the oppression and defeat.

Anger is what started me writing. Writing, for me, then, is an act of defiance born of the need to survive. I am me. I exist. I am Dakotah. I write. It is the quintessential act of optimism born of frustration. It is an act of courage, I think. And, in the end, as Simon Ortiz says, it is an act did defies oppression.

" Anger is what brought me to write. Writing is an act of open disobedience of the will to survive for me. I am me. I exist. I'm Dakotah. I write. It is a perfect act of optimism born out of frustration. It is an act of courage and, finally, as says Simon Ortiz, it is an act which defeats the oppression. "

Cook -Lynn is a critic of the Tea Party movement, which evaluates them in response to the incipient loss of a 200 -year-long exercise of power by white Europeans in the USA and it accuses racist motives.

Awards

Works

  • New Indians, Old Wars. University of Illinois Press, 2007
  • Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook - Lynn. University of Arizona, 2007
  • 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. Illinois UP, 1999 ( with Mario Gonzalez )
  • Why I can not read Wallace Stegner and other essays: a tribal voice. University of Wisconsin Press, 1996
  • Aurelia: A Crow Creek trilogy. Colorado UP, 1999
  • From the river 's edge. Arcade, 1991
  • The Power of Horses and Other Stories. Arcade, 1990
  • Then Badger Said This. Ye Galleon Press, 1983 (reprint of 1977)
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