Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

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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 Crow Creek Sioux tribe , of which her father and grandfather were long-time members of the Tribal Council. She studied English and Literature at South Dakota State College, New Mexico State University, and Black Hills State College. She married, had four children, and only after her divorce did she earn further degrees in education and psychology . From 1971 she was Professor of English and Native American Studies at Eastern Washington University before she retired in 1990 . Since her retirement, she has published numerous non-fiction books, volumes of poetry and novels on topics of the Native Americans and is co-founder of the Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies .

According to her, her family tribal heritage, the landscape of the northern Great Plains and the writings of N. Scott Momaday had a decisive influence on her writing . She cites anger and the will to survive and defeat oppression through open disobedience as the main motivation for her writing .

“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 that defies oppression. "

“Anger is what made me write. For me, writing is an act of open disobedience born of the will to survive. I'm me. I exist. I am Dakotah. I write. It is a perfect act of optimism born of frustration. It's an act of courage and, ultimately, as Simon Ortiz says, it's an act that defeats oppression. "

- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Cook-Lynn is a critic of the Tea Party movement , which she sees as a reaction to the incipient loss of 200 years of exercise of power by white Europeans in the USA and whom she accuses of racist motives.

Awards

  • 1978 National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarship from Stanford University
  • 1995 Oyate Igluwitaya from South Dakota University
  • 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas

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)
  • I remember the fallen trees: new and selected poems . Eastern Washington UP, 1998
  • Why I can't 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 (reprinted 1977)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ COOK-LYNN, ELIZABETH  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Second Edition@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bookrags.com  
  2. ^ Voices from the Gaps: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn . University of Minnesota
  3. ↑ Tea party cry ironic given history of ancestors . Rapid City Journal, Aug. 7, 2010
  4. ^ Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas
personal data
SURNAME Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and professor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Thompson , South Dakota