Nora Marks Dauenhauer

Nora Marks Dauenhauer or Keixwenei (* 1927 in Syracuse, New York ) is an American author and writes poetry and short stories in English and Tlingit.

Nora Marks Dauenhauer is the daughter of Emma and Willie Marks, a member of the tribe of the Tlingit from the area of ​​Juneau in Alaska. Due to the care usual when the Tlingit inheritance through the female line it belongs to the branch of the Tlingit Raven. In 1976 she graduated from the Methodist University of Alaska. She is a member of Shax'saanikee. Together with her husband Richard Danne Hauer, a poet and translator, she is Koeditor of the Sealaska Heritage Foundation highly regarded series Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature.

Works

• Beginning Tlingit. 1976
• With Richard Dauenhauer ( ed.): " Because We Cherish You ... ": Sealaska Elders Speak to the Future. Sealaska Heritage Foundation, Juneau 1981
• Egg Boat. In: Simon J. Ortiz (ed.): Earth Power Coming. Short Fiction in Native American Literature. Navajo Community College Press, Tsaile 1983, pp. 155-161
• Context and display in Northwest Coast Art in New Scholar. Volume 10, 1986, pp. 419-432
• With Richard Dauenhauer (ed.): Haa Shuka, Our Ancestors speak. Tlingit Oral Narratives ( Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature =, Volume 1). University of Washington Press, Seattle 1987
• The droning shaman. 1988
• With Richard Dauenhauer (ed.): Haa Tuwanáagu Yi, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory ( Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, Volume 2 ) University of Washington Press, Seattle 1990
• The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804, from the Tlingit, Russian, and Other Points of View. In: Richard Pierce (ed.): Russia in North America. Limestone Press, Kingston, Ontario, 1990, pp. 6-24
• With Richard Dauenhauer (ed.): Haa Kusteeyí, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories ( Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature =, Volume 3 ). University of Washington Press, Seattle 1994
• Life Woven with Song. 2000