CURRICULUM VITAE
LEANNE HOWE
Associate Professor
University of Illinois
American Indian Studies Program
English, MFA Program
Native American House
1206 W. Nevada
Urbana, Illinois 61801
217-265-9870
Websites for Howe:
Native Storytellers
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/LAHowe
University of Minnesota, Voices from the Gap
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/howe_leanne.html
Grassroots Community Arts
http://communityarts.net/
2004 Prix Medici Award
http://www.prix-litteraires.net/medicis_selection-2004-1.php
Co-Fiction editor Ninth Letter 2006
http://www.ninthletter.com/
EDUCATION:
Advanced degree:
MFA in Creative Writing, January 2000
Vermont College of Norwich University
Montpelier, Vermont
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Fall Winter 2005:
Essay. “The Bases Are Loaded: American Indian and American Studies” co-authored by
Carter Meland, Joseph Bauerkemper, LeAnne Howe, Heidi Stark. American
Studies Journal. [Stark and Bauerkemper are two of my students at Minnesota
who are PhD candidates in American Studies.] Special Issue: Indigenous Peoples
of the United States. Vol. 46:3/4 (Fall-Winter 2005), #1. Editors, Norman
Yetman, David M. Katzman, Bernard Alan Hirsh.
Fall 2005:
Essay. “Tribalography: The Story of America.” First Nations of North America,
Politics and Representation, VU Uitgeverij/VU University Press, Editor, Hans
Bak. Volume 54 in the series European Contributions to American Studies.
October 2005:
History. “Betsy Love and the Married Women’s Property Act.” Mississippi History Now,
is an Online History Journal, sponsored by the Mississippi Historical Society,
Editor, Peggy Jeanes.
April 2005:
Poetry. Evidence of Red. Salt Publishing, Cambridge UK
Honors: 2006 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry, Oklahoma Libraries Association and
the Oklahoma Center for the Book.
Fall 2004:
Novel. Équinoxes Rouges. Roucher, Collection Nuage Rouge, Paris France.
Honors: 2004 Prix Medici Award Finalist
Spring 2002:
C.N-F. “Choctalking on Other Realities” appears in Sister Nations: Native American Women
Writers on Community, Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul, MN, Heid Erdrich,
Laura Tohe, Eds.
Fall 2001:
Novel. Shell Shaker. Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA
Honors: American Book Award 2002, Before Columbus Foundation and
finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award 2003
Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year, Fiction 2002
FORTHCOMING Fall 2006
Novel. Miko Kings. Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA
CRITICISM AND ESSAYS:
Spring 2004:
Essay. “Indians in the Act: Native Theater Past and Present.” Craig Howe, Harvey
Markowitz, Dean Rader and LeAnne Howe. SAIL: Studies in American Indian
Literatures 16.1
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“The Story of America: A Tribalography” appears in the following:
Fall 2001: Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies, Routledge
Press, Nancy Shoemaker, Editor. My chapter argues that narratives, whether
classified as mythological, scientific, historical or fictional, share the power to
create truths to live by and through which members of specific cultural groups
see the world. Pgs 29-48.
Fall 2005:
First Nations of North America, Politics and Representation, VU
Uitgeverij/VU University Press, Editor, Hans Bak. Volume 54 in the series
European Contributions to American Studies.
PUBLICATIONS –1978-2000
Anthologies (Short Fiction)
“An American In New York” a short story, appears in the following:
Spr. 00
July 1999
1995
1996
1994
1990
1989
New York Fiction Fremdsprachentexte edited by Dietrich Klose, published by
Phillip Reclam Jun. Verlag GMBH, Ditzingen, Germany.
What’s Fun Gotta Do With It, edited by Belle Klem Thomsen and Jacob Eichler,
Copenhagen Business School Press, Denmark. (The anthology includes: Tom
Wolfe, Arthur Miller, Ferlinghetti, Stephen King, Terry McMillian, Malcolm X,
Amy Tan, Mark Twain, Nora Ephron, Dorothy Parker.)
“Un'americana a New York” in Figlie Di Pocohontas racconti e poesie delle
indiane d'America, Giunti Gruppo Editorial, Firenze Italy, a cura di Cinzia
Biagiotti e Laura Coltelli.
The Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women, Boston, Beacon
Press, edited by Wendy Martin
Global Cultures: A Transnational Short Fiction Reader Wesleyan University
Press, edited by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl.
Spider Woman's Granddaughters, Ballantine Press edition. Edited by Paula Gunn
Allen.
Spider Woman's Granddaughters, Beacon Press, Edited by Paula Gunn Allen.
Anthologies (Short Fiction) continued
Spr. 00
1997
1995
“Blood Sacrifice,” and “A Story for Ohoyo Shatanni” appear in Through The Eye
Of The Deer, Aunt Lute Books, edited by Carolyn Dunn Anderson and Carol
Comfort. “Blood Sacrifice” is chapter two of my novel, Shell Shakers.
“Indians Never Say Good-bye” in Reinventing the Enemy's Language, W.W.
Norton, edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird
“Moccasins Don't Have High Heels” appears in Native American Literature,
HarperCollinsCollegePublishers, edited by Gerald Vizenor.
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1994
1992
1991
1991
“A Story for Ohoyo Shatanni” in Returning the Gift, An Anthology, The
University of Arizona Press, edited by Joseph Bruchac.
“Danse de l'amour, Danse de mort” in Earth Song, Sky Spirit: An Anthology of
Native American Writers, Doubleday & Co., edited by Clifford Trafzer (winner of
the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award.)
“Dance of the Dead” in Looking Glass, Uni. of Calif.'s Publications in American
Indian Studies, edited by Clifford Trafzer.
“Moccasins Don't Have High Heels” and “The Red Wars” both appear in
American Indian Literature, Revised Edition University of Oklahoma Press,
edited by Alan Velie.
Anthologies (Theater)
May 1999
“Indian Radio Days,” a three-act play in Seventh Generation:
An Anthology of Native American Plays published by TCG,
Theatre Communications Group, Inc., edited by Mimi D'Aponte.
Anthologies (Essays)
Spring 00
1993
“My Mothers, My Uncles, Myself” appears in Here First: Autobiographical
Essays by Native American Writers, Original Modern Library, a Random House
imprint, edited by Brian Swann, Arnold Krupat.
“The Indian Researcher As An Interpreter of History” essay, and the poem, “Hashi
Mi Mali” both appear in Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North
American Peoples, Vol. IV, Theytus Books, Penticton, British Columbia.
Literary Journals (Short Fiction)
“Choctalking on Other Realities” appears in the following:
2002
1999
1997
Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community, Minnesota
Historical Society Press, St. Paul, MN edited by Heid Erdrich and Laura Tohe
Grinnell Magazine, Vol. 31, # 2, Winter, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA.
Cimarron Review, #121, October, Oklahoma State University, edited by Michael
Wilson
Literary Journals (Short Fiction) continued:
2003
1996
1994
1991
“Mistakes Were Made” appears in the literary magazine Speakeasy, Vol. 1 #5
published by The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN
“Shell Shakers” appears in Story, published by F & W Publications, Volume 44.3,
edited by Lois Rosenthal.
“The Chaos of Angels” in Callaloo, Native American Literature, Volume 17, #1
Native Heritage Issue, Johns Hopkins University Press.
“The Bone Picker” in Fiction International #20 edited by Clifford Trafzer.
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Literary Journals (Poetry)
1993
1993
1990
1978
“Evidence of Red” in Nebraska English Journal,
Vol. #38.2, edited by Carter Revard.
“Hashi Mi Mali” in Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American
Peoples, Vol. IV, Theytus Books, Penticton, British Columbia.
“Choctaw Mortuary Practices” in SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures,
Vol. #2.2 University of Richmond.
“Children” in The Chariton Review,
Vol. #4.2, edited by Jim Barnes.
Essays (Theater Journal)
Nov. 1999
“Tribalography: The Power of Native Stories” in the Journal of Drama and
Theatre, University of Kansas.
Essays (Legal Journal)
1992
“The Sewage of Foreigners” co-authored with Ms. Scott Morrison appears in
Federal Bar News and Journal, Vol. 39, No. 6 (July).
Encyclopedia
1997
Encyclopedia of North American Indians, Marshall Cavendish Reference Books,
Tarrytown, New York; included in the Contemporary Choctaw Literature section
of an 11-volume set. Edited by Don Birchfield.
Chapbooks (Out of print)
1987
1985
A Stand Up Reader, Into View Press, Arlington, Texas, a collection of short
fiction.
Coyote Stories, Wowapi Press, Dallas, Texas, a collection of poetry, and short
fiction.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Aug. 15-2005
Associate Professor, American Indian Studies, English
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Aug. 03-May 05
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of American Indian
Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
June 2003
Loft Fiction Mentor for the Loft Literary Center, in Creative Prose and
Poetry, Minneapolis, MN
Jan 03.-May 03
Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence, Hollins University, Roanoke,
VA. Graduate fiction workshop.
Fall 2002
Visiting Professor, University of Cincinnati, Women’s Studies
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Spring 2002
Spring 2001
Aug. 97 - Aug. 00
Mar 97 - June 97
Feb. 97 - Mar 97
Sept. 96 - Nov. 96
1992, 94, 95
Cincinnati, Ohio, graduate seminar
Visiting Lecturer, ASAP program, University of Cincinnati. Short
course titled, Native American Women’s Literature
Visiting Professor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
Fiction workshop.
Assistant Professor, American Studies Department
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA.
Developed three new courses:
Native American Literature and Culture
Writing Native America
Red and Black: Studies in American Indian and African American
Visiting Professor, American Studies, Carleton College, Northfield,
MN.
Developed theater course: Theater For Social Change and
Development
Native American Literature course
Visiting Lecturer, American Studies Department
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA.
Visiting Faculty, American Studies, English, Theater Departments
Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
Developed introductory course: Native American Literature
Created interdisciplinary Faculty seminar
Lecturer, Anthropology Department, Law School, and American
Indian and Native Studies Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
Introductory Course.
CURRICULA DEVELOPMENT

 Time Travel and Space Exploration: An American Indian
Approach to Reading (and writing on) American Indian fiction and
poetry.
Department of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota
(undergraduates)
 Theater for the Mind: Turning Texts and theories into Drama(s):
Department of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota.
(graduate seminar).
 Crafting Time and Space: An American Indian Approach to
Writing the Short Story. Hollins University (graduate fiction
workshop) 
 American Indian Guides, Saviors, Lawmakers. University of
Cincinnati ,Women’s Studies. (graduate seminar)
 Native Literature and Culture. English, Grinnell College, Wake
Forest University
 Writing Native America. American Studies, Grinnell College
 Theater For Social Change and Development. Drama and
American Studies, Carleton College
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 American Indian Literature, Poetry and Theater: A Genre that
Circles
Itself. English and Drama, Carleton College
 Red and Black: Studies in American Indians and African
Americans. American Studies and English, Grinnell College
GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
Nov. 05
John and Renee Grisham Writer in Residence Fellowship.
Oxford MS.
June ‘05
ITVS San Francisco. Development grant to begin production
on a 90-minute documentary film – working title Playing
Pastime. Co-producer.
March ’04
Regents’ Lecturer, University of California, Riverside, CA
Nov. 03
Distinguished Lecturer, Kenyon College, Ohio
Nov. 02
Native American Writer-in-Residence fellowship, Southeast Missouri
State University, Cape Girardeau, MO
May 02
Before Columbus Foundation, American Book Award, NYC,
2002, Fiction
Aug 28, -Sept. 00
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Writer-in-Residence Fellowship,
Sweet Briar, VA
July 00
Master Artist, Project Hoop Writer-in-Residence, Sinte Gleska
University, Rosebud Sioux Reservation, Mission, SD
July 1999
Africana Studies Summer Seminar Grant, Grinnell, College, Grinnell,
IA
Aug. 1998
Teaching and Faculty Travel Grant, Grinnell, College to support
Romania Teaching and Research trip.
July 1996
D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, Research
Grant, part of Indian Voices in the Academy, The Newberry Library,
Chicago, Illinois, investigating Karpinski Map Collection, Byington
papers
June 1996
Ragdale Writers Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois
Dec. 1995
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Writer-In-Residence, New Smyrna, FL
Oct. - Nov. 1995
The MacDowell Colony, Writer-In-Residence, Peterborough, NH
June - July 1995
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College
Teachers. Ethnohistory of American Indians - University of
Oklahoma, director Professor Gary Anderson, with Jacki Thompson
Rand
Nov. 1993
Smithsonian Institution - Native American Internship. Investigated
nineteenth century primary documents left by missionaries on the
morphological changes in the Choctaw language
Oct. 1993
Iowa Arts Council Grant, Artist-in-Residence. Rewrote, produced and
directed Indian Radio Days, a theatrical play in Cedar Rapids, IA, that
was both theatrically staged at CSPS Theater, and broadcast to all
American Public Radio stations, Midwest, on Columbus Day, 1993.
Oct. 1993
National Association of Foreign Student Advisers (NAFSA) grant for
video documentary at University of Iowa.
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Feb. 1993
June 1991
Japan from the Okayama Buraku Liberation Research Institute, in
conjunction with Hosei University faculty in Tokyo. One month-long
grant to read and lecture from my fiction and non-fiction. This
program was part of the United Nations resolution proclaiming 1993
“International Year For The World’s Indigenous People.”
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for
Historical Research on Ethnohistory of Southeastern Indians University of Kentucky. Directed by Professors Theda Perdue and
Michael Green.
THEATER
2000
1995
1995
1993
1987
Indian Radio Days, co-authored by Howe and Roxy Gordon. Directed by
Cameron Ulrich, performed at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South
Dakota with a thirteen-member cast.
Indian Radio Days, co-authored by Howe and Roxy Gordon. Directed by Howe.
Performed by the WagonBurner Theatre Troop with Howe at the National
Museum of the American Indian, NYC, NY, in August 1995.
Indian Radio Days, produced in February 1995, as part of a new play series at the
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California. Theater invited Howe to Los
Angeles as consultant on the production.
Indian Radio Days, directed, rewritten by Howe for radio. Staged at CSPS Theater
in Cedar Rapids, IA. Also broadcast on American Public Radio stations,
throughout the Midwest, and up-linked via satellite to Alaska Public Radio
stations, on Columbus Day, 1993.
Big PowWow, co-authored by Howe and Roxy Gordon. Staged and produced by
Sojourner Truth Theater in Fort Worth, Texas. Six weeks run. Sojourner Truth
Theater is an African-American theater company in Texas. This was the first
collaboration between American Indians and African-Americans of this kind in
Texas.
MUSIC
1992
Hawk in Hand - Recorded readings with music of my short fiction and poetry.
Original music recorded and produced by Jarryd Lowder.
FILMS: WRITING, DIRECTING, PRODUCING
2006
Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire. 90-minute documentary for PBS.
Screenwriter and On-Camera Narrator on the Eastern Band of the
Cherokee Indians shot on location in Cherokee, North Carolina. Set to air
nationally, November 2006. A four-year project completion.
2005
Playing Pastime: American Indians, Softball, and the Politics of Survival.
A documentary about fifty years of fast-pitched Indian Softball set in
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Oklahoma. James M. Fortier, Producer/Director (Métis-Ojibway) and
Howe, producer/Writer. Began production, Sept.2004. Ongoing.
1994
Creator, producer Life in the USA, as Told To My Video Camera. An verité
film project centered on foreign students' adjustment to life at USA
universities. Nominated by the NAFSA Association of International
Educators, for 20-year Anniversary award for excellence in cross-cultural
education.
1993
Producer, writer, director Handfuls of Earth. Three three-part mini-series on
the challenges facing indigenous students studying at the UI. Broadcast on
University of Iowa Television serving 100,000 viewers.
1993
Producer, Writer, Director. A Look at Minorities in Education in Iowa. Film
Short. Iowa Public Television. Part of a “Racism Project in Iowa” series. Aired
February 18, 1993.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
Howe, But NOT Like Tonto a collection of travel short stories set in the Middle East. Memoir.
Big PowWow, a play co-authored by LeAnne Howe and Roxy Gordon produced in 1987 by
Sojourner Truth Theater will appear in a new anthology of Native American
Women’s plays, University of Michigan, edited by Rebecca Howard and Shirley
Huston-Findley. Expected February 2007.
“Blind Bread and the Business of Theorymaking: By Embarrassed Grief as Told by
LeAnne Howe.” The essay is for REASONING TOGETHER: NATIVE
CRITICS IN DIALOGUE an anthology on Native literary criticism. Editors:
Native Critics Collective. Manuscript at Press; University of Oklahoma Press.
Expected Spring 2008.
Seeing Red: American Indians in the Cinema. The volume is a compilation of movie reviews and
essays written by tribal and non-Indian historians, anthropologists, and authors on
movies whose plots involve Indians in significant ways. Edited by LeAnne Howe
and Harvey Markowitz.
PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES, READINGS
May 24, ’06 Reading: National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC
May 22, ’06 Reading: Washington and Lee University, Virginia
April 20, ’06 Reading: The University of Georgia, Athens
March 11, 06 Reading; The AWP, Austin, Texas
Nov. 7, ’06 Reading: Illini Bookstore. Champaign, Illinois
Nov. 11, ’05 Paper Presentation: Creative Non-fiction Conference,
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Oct. 27-29’05 Reading and lectures. Oklahoma Arts Council, Quartz Mt. Oklahoma
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Sept 25-26, 05 South Dakota Festival of the Book, Deadwood, SD
July 25, 2005 Reading, BookWoman, Austin, Texas
May 3, 05
Lecture presentation, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
May 1, 05
Reading, Native Winds, Honolulu, Hawaii
April 29,05 Reading, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
April 24, 05 Reading, St. Thomas University, St. Paul MN
April, 7, 05 Reading, Native American Lit. Symposium, Mystic Lake Casino, MN
April’05
Reading Birchbark Books, Minneapolis, MN
April ’05
Reading Anoka School District, K-12 Teachers Anoka Minnesota
Feb. 23, 05
Reading, Cedar Rapids Public Library, Cedar Rapids, IA
Jan 9-16,’05 Readings, film lecture, Bilbao Spain
Nov. 19, 04 Readings, lecture, East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma
Nov. 13, 04 Paper Presentation, American Studies Assoc. Atlanta, Georgia
“Speaking of Mounds in the Southeast Oral Tradition.”
Oct. 28 04
Panel Presentation, American Society for Ethnohistory, Chicago, Illinois
“Got Corn?”
Sept.’04
Reading, Washington and Lee University, Lexington VA.
July 31, ’04 Theatre performance and reading, Undermain Theater, Dallas, Texas
April 15’04 Reading and panel participant, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
April 14 ’04 Native American Literature Symposium, Mystic Lake Casino, MN
Mar 9-19’04 Regents Distinguished Lecturer at University of California, Riverside,
Riverside, CA.
Feb. 19 04
Reading, University Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Urbana, Ill.
Feb. 13, ‘ 04 Reading, Syracuse University and Onondaga Nation School. Conducted
writing workshop for beginning Native writers.
Nov. 25, 03 Reading, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.
Nov., 3, 03
Week-long Reading and lectures, Kenyon College, Ohio.
Oct. 13, 03
Reading and lecture Michigan State University, Michigan.
August 7, 03 Reading and lecture, Native Religious Studies, Jace Weaver, conference
organizer, Claremont College, CA
July 28, 03
Reading and lecture, NEH Summer Seminar, Evergreen College, Olympia,
WA, Gail Trembley Director
April 30, 03 Reading and lecture Dartmouth University, Hanover, MA
April 17-18 03 Reading, class visits SUNY/Potsdam University, Potsdam New York
April 9-10 03 Reading, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
April 4-5, 03 Reading &Keynote Speaker, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara CA, American Indian Family Day Conference
March 28, 03 Lecture, Radical History Conference, Minneapolis, MN
March 20, 03 Film Panel Presentation, Native American Literature Symposium, Mystic Lake
Casino, MN
March 15, 03 Reading, Hollins University, Literary Festival, Roanoke VA
Feb 19, 03
Reading, Yale University, New Haven Connecticut
Feb.10, 03
Reading, class visits, Evergreen College, Washington
Nov. 21, ‘02 Reading, class visits University of Las Vegas, Nevada
Nov. 15, ‘02, Reading, Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC
Oct. 27, 02
Week-long Writer’s Residency at South East Missouri State, Cape Girardeau, MO
Oct. 15-19
Paper presentation, American Society of Ethnohistory, Quebec City, Canada
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Sept. 23-25
July 30, 02
July 20,02
May 30, 02
May 11, 02
May 10, 02
May 8, 02
May 7, 02
May 6, 02
May 4, 02
April 30
April 29
April 15,
April 12-14
April 11
April 8
April 4
April 3
March 19-22
March 7
Mar.1, 02
Feb. 11 ’02
Feb. 6 -9 ’02
Feb. 5, ’02
Jan. 6, ’02
Dec. 11 ‘01
Dec. 1, ‘01
Nov. 30 ‘01
Nov. 28, ‘01
Nov. 19,‘01
Nov. 19,‘01
Nov. 15,‘01
Nov. 15,‘01
Nov. 14 ’01
Nov.1 ‘01
Oct. 01
Oct.’01
Oct. 01
Oct. ’01
Aug. ‘01
June ‘01
April ‘01
Reading and lectures University of Montana, Missoula MT
Reading, Oak Dale Writers Retreat, Brookings, SD
Theatre performance and reading, Undermain Theater, Dallas, Texas
Reading Netherlands American Studies Association, Roosevelt Study Center,
Middleburg, The Netherlands
Reading Inca Gardens, San Jose, CA
Reading and book signing party Women’s Building, San Francisco, CA
Reading, DQ University, Davis CA
lecture, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
reading, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Black Oak Books, San Francisco, CA
Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Reading Book Woman bookstore, Austin, Texas
Reading, and lecture, Winona State University, Winona, MN
Theater performance, reading, Native American Literature Symposium, Mystic
Lake Casino, MN
Reading, Bear Crossing Como Pavilion, St. Paul, MN., St. Paul MN
Reading and lecture, Mankato State University, Mankato, MN
Amazon Bookstore, Minneapolis, MN
Reading and lecture, University of Madison, Wisconsin
Fiction workshop, reading, NECC, Norfolk, Nebraska, and Wayne State, NE
Reading, Women and Children First Bookstore, Chicago, Ill.
Reading and book signing, Reynolda House, Winston-Salem, NC
Reading and book signing, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA
Lectures, book signing, Uni. of Iowa, Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA
Reading and book signing, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa.
Reading and book signing, Paperbacks Plus, bookstore, Dallas, TX
Reading and book signing, Mercantile Library, Cincinnati, OH
Teaching and lecture session, Birch Bark Books, Minneapolis, MN
Reading, Native Words Series, Bear Crossing, Como Pavilion, St. Paul, MN.
Reading, book signing, class visits, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Lecture, book signing, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA,
Reading, book signing, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA,
Lecture, book signing, class visit, San Francisco State University, SF. CA,
Reading, book signing, class visits, Uni. of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Reading and book signing, Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
Reading and book signing, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH
Reading, book signing, class visits, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Reading, book signing, class visits, Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
Lecture, reading for EPA Agency, Seattle, WA.
Reading, book signing, and lecture, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH.
Reading, Bumpershoots Arts Festival, Seattle, WA.
Reading, National Women Studies Association: Minneapolis, MN.
Guest lecturer. Oklahoma City Community College, Division of Arts and
Humanities, Oklahoma City, OK. Lecture Topic: “Indians: Our Love Hate
Relationship with Dances With Wolves.”
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March ‘01
March ’01
Jan .’ 01
Nov. ‘00
Oct.’ 00
Oct. ‘00
Sept. ‘00
Sept. ‘00
April 2000
Feb. 2000
Feb.2000
Nov. 1999
Nov. 1999
Oct. 1999
April 1999
Mar.1999
Nov.1998
Sept. 1998
Aug. 1998
June 1998
May 1998
April 1998
Reading and panel at Yale University’s (RE) Presenting Native American
Cultures, hosted by The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Reading at Hollins University, VA.
Reading at Wake Forest University’s Anthropology Museum, Winston-Salem,
NC.
From Nov. 28 - Dec. 3, 00: Panel Chair, “Indians in the Act: Native Theater Past
and Present” American Literature Association, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and
presenting paper, “Circling the Wagons: Confessions of a Native American
Theatre Troop.”
Reading and lecture at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, in
conjunction with the opening of my play, Indian Radio Days.
Reading at Sinte Gleska University, Rosebud Sioux Reservation, Mission SD.
Lecture at the “Mentor Series Dialogue” in collaboration with Susan Power
9/28/00 at The Loft, Minneapolis, MN.
Reading at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia.
Book signing and reading with Native women authors whose work appears in:
Through the Eye of The Deer, Noun Program, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA.
Fiction reading at Wake Forest, NC.
Fiction reading at the Native American Writing Festival, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC.
Fiction reading, Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, OK.
Panel Chair, “American Indian Literature: The Other History,” American
Literature Association , Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and presented paper by the same
title.
Fiction reading at South Central, MLA, Memphis TN
Fiction reading and lecture at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
from Shell Shaker.
Panel moderator Native American Women’s Playwrights Festival, Miami
University, Oxford, OH.
Panel chair “American Indian Literature: The Other History” and paper
presentation annual conference American Society for Ethnohistory, Minneapolis,
MN.
Presented paper, “Two Million American Indian Tricksters: On destroying
paradigms and creating new textual spaces. . . Indians, what will we think of
next!” at “Crossing Borders: American Indians and Encounters with Diversity”
conference at the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian Research at The
Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill.
Invited lecturer for the department of Anthropology.
Presented a series of lectures for a two-week summer seminar for the Center for
Complexity Studies of Bucharest, Romania. This session was held at Resita in the
mountains of western Romania, title of the seminar was “Cultural Communication
and the Understanding of Otherness.”
Presented lecture at The Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill on the history of Choctaw
Sacred sites in Mississippi.
Invited to lecture on Choctaw history for the OK Choctaws Association, an
organization of Choctaws living in Oklahoma City and surrounding area.
Fiction reading at Texas Lutheran College, Seguin TX.
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April 1998
Nov. 1997
Nov. 1997
Nov. 1997
Oct. 1997
Aug. 1997
Aug. 1997
June 1997
April 1997
April 1997
Feb. 1997
Feb. 1997
Feb. 1997
Nov. 1996
Nov. 1996
Oct. 1996
Oct. 1996
July 1996
April 1996
Feb. 1996
Feb. 1996
Dec. 1995
Nov. 1995
Oct. 1995
May 1994
Mar. 1993
July 1993
Oct. 1993
Presented lecture on Sacred Spaces and gave fiction reading at The Newberry
Library in Chicago. Ill.
Fiction reading Wartburg College, Waverly, IA.
Fiction reading and lecture, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Fiction reading Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO.
Lecture Presentation, Northeastern State University Returning the Gift conference,
Tahlequah, OK.
Fiction reading and lecture for Austin Museum of Art, at Jaune Quick-To-See art
exhibition with Gail Trembley, Austin, TX.
History lecture at OK Choctaws, a monthly meeting of Choctaws living in
Oklahoma City, OK, and surrounding area.
Lecture and reading on Choctaw Star Stories at The Newberry Library, Chicago,
Ill.
Fiction reading and lecture for Minnesota College in the Schools, Literature
Program, at the University of Minnesota. (500 High school seniors)
Reading and lectures, University of Wisconsin at Eau-Claire. WI.
Lecture and reading: “Remembering Our Future, A Symposium”
sponsored by the University of Oklahoma, Native American Studies department,
and The Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities
Reading and lectures at NW Missouri State University, Maryville, MO.
Lecture and fiction reading, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA. (American Studies)
Lecture and reading, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, (English)
Presented paper at the 1996 annual conference of the American Society for
Ethnohistory, Portland, Oregon. “Matrilineal to Patrilineal in Choctaw Culture”
Fiction Reading and Lecture, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC,
(Women’s Studies)
Fiction reading and Lecture, Davidson College, Davidson NC, (Sociology/
Anthropology and English)
Presented research on Choctaw women for the Indian Voices in the Academy
Fellowship at The Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill.
Convocation speaker at Carleton College, Northfield, MN “American Indians and
the Need for Religious Tolerance”
Lecture and fiction reading, Barat College, Lake Forest, Ill.
Lecture, and fiction reading Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA.
Fiction reading with author Shelby Hearon, Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL.
Reading MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH.
Fiction reading and lecture, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Ill.
Reading and lecture at American Center for Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan
Presented paper, “For Love or Money: A Case Study of Betsy Love, A Chickasaw
woman who helped create the Women’s Property Act of 1829” University of
Iowa, Women in Development Conference, Iowa City, IA.
Reading and panel workshop on writing the novel, Returning the Gift conference,
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
Presented lecture “Choctaw Women and Land Tenure”
UN Day Speaker for Johnson Country United Nations Association, Iowa City, IA.
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Feb. 1993
Nov. 1992
July 1992
Japan from the Okayama Buraku Liberation Research Institute, in conjunction
with Hosei University faculty in Tokyo. One month-long grant to read and lecture
from my fiction and non-fiction.
Reading at Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI (English)
Reading and invited author, Returning the Gift conference, University of
Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
MEMBERSHIPS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Member
ASAIL Association of Studies in American Indian Literature
Member
Clan Mothers Board for NALS (Native American Literature
Symposium) held yearly at Mystic Lake Casino, MN
Member
AWP, Associated Writing Programs
Member
American Studies Association
Member
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, of the Native American Women’s
Playwrights Association.
Member
Association of American Indian and Alaska Professors
Member
American Society for Ethnohistory.
Member
Choctaw Code Talkers Association, Chickasha, OK.
Member
Wordcraft Circle, Native Writer Mentoring Program
Member
Native Writers Circle Of The Americas, an organization of North and
South American indigenous writers, including the Artic. Formerly part
of Returning the Gift.
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