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Native American/First Nations Woman Writer of the Week
NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER
Continuing on our trek through what remains of March, I offer you another Indigenous woman writer, Nora Marks Keixwnéi Dauenhauer (1927-2017), a Tlingit writer from Juneau, Alaska. Born in Juneau, Dauenhauer grew up there as well as in Hoonah, Alaska with a father who was a fisherman and carver, and a mother who was a beader. Dauenhauer lived at times with her parents on a fishing boat and in seasonal camps. Being a member of the Tlingit tribe, her first language was Łingít, and she did not learn English until she was eight.
Following her mother in the Tlingit matrilineal system, she was a member of the Raven moiety of the Tlingit nation, of the Yakutat Lukaax̱.ádi (Sockeye Salmon) clan, of the Shaka Hít or Canoe Prow House, from Alsek River. She was chosen as clan co-leader of Lukaax̱.ádi (Sockeye Salmon) in 1986 and as trustee of the Raven House and other clan property. She was then given the title Naa Tláa (Clan Mother) in 2010, becoming the ceremonial leader of the clan.
Dauenhauer earned a BA in anthropology from Alaska Methodist University in Anchorage. In the early 1970s, she married poet and Tlingit scholar Richard Dauenhauer and together they made significant contributions to preserve the Tlingit oral traditions in their Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature book series. Nora Dauenhauer became a Tlingit language researcher for the Native Language Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks from 1972-1973, and then became the principal researcher in language and cultural studies at the Sealaska Heritage Foundation in Juneau from 1983-1997.
On the subject of preserving the Tlingit oral tradition and its importance, Dauenhaur said:
People are now beginning to take action for language and cultural survival, and my work is to help provide inspiration and tools for this through my writing.
Dauenhauer had several accomplishments, including being named the 1980 Humanist of the Year by the Alaska Humanities Forum. Together, the Dauenhauers were awarded the Alaska Governor’s Award for the Arts, two American Book Awards, and a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. In 2005, Nora Dauenhauer was the recipient of the Community Spirit Award from the First People’s Fund.
As a poet, Nora Dauenhauer published two collections, one of which we hold in Special Collections, Life Woven With Song, published by the University of Arizona Press in 2000 (the other is The Droning Shaman, Black Current Press, 1989). This book recreates the oral tradition of the Tlingit people through written language in a variety of literary forms, and records memories of Dauenhauer’s heritage from old relatives and Tlingit elders, to trolling for salmon and preparing food in the dryfish camps and making a living by working in canneries.
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Like people
emerging from a steambath,
bending over,
steaming from their heads
and shoulders,
the ring of the mountains
from the Chilkat Range
to the Juneau ice field
as if in steambath towels
of snow flurries;
at their feet
are foaming white caps of sea
like water thrown on rocks
steaming from the heat.
Nora Marks Dauenhauer
from Life Woven with Song, 2000
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Grandmother Eliza | Nora Marks Dauenhauer
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–Tlingit poet
My grandmother Eliza
was the family surgeon.
Her scalpel made from a pocketknife
she kept in a couple of pinches of snoose.
She saved my life by puncturing
my festering neck twice with her knife.
She saved my brother’s life twice
when his arm turned bad.
The second time she saved him
was when his shoulder turned bad.
She always made sure
she didn’t cut an artery.
She would feel…
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Writer and scholar Nora Marks Dauenhauer was born in 1927 in Juneau, Alaska. Dauenhauer made numerous contributions to the study and preservation of the Tlingit language, an indigenous language. Her body of work includes poetry, essays, fiction, and plays. In 2008, she won the American Book Award for Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804. In 2012, Dauenhauer became the first Alaska native to be appointed Alaska State Writer Laureate.
Nora Marks Dauenhauer died in 2017 at the age of 90.
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National Poetry Month Number 20 - Nora Marks Dauenhauer - Amelia’s First Ski Run
You can listen to the podcast version of today’s article on Spotify, ITunes, Anchor, Breaker, or Google Podcasts. Click Here to access links. (https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis) Look for the podcast titled National Poetry Month at the Other Pages.
Welcome to National Poetry Month at The Other Pages. My name is Steve Spanoudis and I curate the series each year, with help and contributions from Bob Blair, Kashiana Singh, and (Nelson) Howard Miller. I’m coming to you from Coral Springs, Florida, on the eastern edge of the Everglades.
Occasional poetry consists mainly of poems written to remember or commemorate special events. Battles, coronations, state funerals, the dedication of a building. But poets write many occasional poems at a more personal level - on the birth of a child, for example. I always thought one of the masters of simple, domestic occasional pieces of light verse was Christopher Morley. There is a large collection of his works at theotherpages.org.
Today’s poem, however, is very specific. The viewpoint, I think, is a grandmother, relishing the amazing skills of her granddaughter. You might simply consider it a descriptive poem, but from the Grandmother’s viewpoint, as the title words suggest, it was a memorable occasion.
That title is Amelia’s First Ski Run, and yes we’re out of season, but the sense of pride, the use of sounds, and the elegant simplicity of the short poem caught my eye and ear.
First the poet: Nora Marks Dauenhauer (1927-2017) grew up as a member of the Tlinget tribe in Alaska. Her father was a fisherman, and the family lived in seasonal camps, and sometimes aboard a fishing boat. Imagine how much change she saw in those ninety years. She earned a degree in Anthropology, and became a poet, author, and scholar of her native Tlinget language. She went on to become the Alaska State Writer Laureate.
By the way, current U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo is also a Nora Dauenhauer fan. You can listen to her reading How to Make Good Baked Salmon from the River on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bX2x2Rf7tI). If you listen, besides Harjo’s joy at reading the description, what comes across is Dauenhauer’s own joy in remembering traditional ways and relishing traditional foods, and her honest acknowledgement that, inevitably, living in a city apartment may require a few compromises on traditional recipes and cooking techniques.
But for today, I chose a shorter poem, one that gets across that first idea, that joy and pride, without compromise. Dauenhauer was born near Juneau, and the poem’s heading indicates it was written at Eaglecrest, a nearby public ski run. Sourdough is one of the highest runs on the mountain.
She starts out:
Amelia, space-age girl
at top of Sourdough
makes her run with Eagle Grandpa Dick,
Raven girl, balancing on space,
gliding on air
in Tlingit colors:
And later:
Once in a while
I could even see space
between her legs and skis.
You can hear the pride in that voice - pride in her granddaughter - this is, after all, only her first downhill run - and pride in her native heritage. She’s bird-like: raven hair / gliding on air. Colors are a big part of that tribal expression, and the fact that, even though she’s a “space-age girl,” she’s tied to nature:
black pants, turquoise jacket,
yellow shoulder patches,
black hair like feathers
clinging to her head,
face the color of red cedar.
Once again, the feathers give the impression she’s flying, birdlike, wearing the black, yellow, and turquoise Tlinget colors. She use the words swishing and shooshing at the end of the poem, onomatopoeic words as she imagines what the far-away sounds must be, as Amelia and her grandfather disappear from sight around the mountain.
The full text is online at the Poetry Foundation, (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53445/amelias-first-ski-run) along with additional biographical notes.
Once again this is Steve Spanoudis for theotherpages.org.
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Like people
emerging from a steambath,
bending over,
steaming from their heads
and shoulders,
the ring of the mountains
from the Chilkat Range
to the Juneau ice field
as if in steambath towels
of snow flurries;
at their feet
are foaming white caps of sea
like water thrown on rocks
steaming from the heat.
nora marks dauenhauer, the storm
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at their feet
are foaming white caps of sea
like water thrown on rocks
steaming from the heat.
— excerpt from the storm, nora marks dauenhauer
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2021 Podcasts, Part 2
A reminder that all of the articles from this year’s poetry series are available as a podcast. Search on “Steve Spanoudis” to find all the episodes on iTunes, Anchor, Breaker, Spotify, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic and PocketCast. If you like the articles, please share.
Here are direct links to individual episodes on Anchor.fm:
12. Laila Chatti - Deluge - article by Kashiana Singh
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-12-Leila-Chatti-eun4c5
13. Tina Cane - Some Kinds of Fire
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-01---Tina-Cane--Anna-Akhmatova-euriuc
14. Richard Blanco - La Florida Room
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-14---Richard-Blanco-eutlfj
15. Michael Hamburger - Grape and Nut Letter - article by Nelson Howard Miller
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-15-Michael-Hamburger-euv861
16. Ted Kooser - In the Basement of the Goodwill Store
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-16---Ted-Kooser-ev0jd3
17. Keorapetse William Kgositsile - Anguish Longer Than Sorrow
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-17-Keorapetse-William-Kgositsile-ev40s
18. Melissa Balmain - Love Poem
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-18-Melissa-Balmain-ev653a
19. Kazim Ali - The Voice of Sheila Chandra - article by Kashiana Singh
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-19-The-gleaming-work-of-Kazim-Ali---The-Voice-of-Sheila-Chandra-ev7kld
20. Nora Dauenhauer - Amelia’s FIrst Ski Run
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-20-Nora-Marks-Dauenhauer-ev8fum
21. Vona Groarke - Still Life in Marble
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-21-Vona-Groarke-evaoi4
The full text of all articles is available at The Other Pages mirrors
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30 Essays on The Best Words in the Best Order, 2021 Edition
We did it. Thirty articles in just over 30 days, on many different aspects of poetry, from themes and contrasts to structure, meter, and rhyme, to metaphors and patterns, to breaking things down and building them back up, from expansive views to introspection. I hope you had a chance to enjoy at least some of the articles. If you didn’t, just a reminder that all 30 are archived on https://facebook.com/theotherpages and https://theotherpages.tumblr.com. I will comment that more of you may be Facebook users, but Tumbler is way better at indexing and presenting than Facebook. The Other Pages is also beautifully presented on Tumblr.
Sincere thanks to Kashiana Singh and Nelson Howard Miller for their help. We were without the services of Bob and Robin this year. Nelson actually did his articles while recovering from Covid, and Kashiana while moving across the country and participating in her amazing stream of other events.
The podcasts were a new experience for me, though Kashiana had done it before. They are archived on https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis.
For the record, while tallies continue, we will probably finish up with over 12,000 reads this year, and over 1,200 reactions and comments on Facebook. The most read article featured Maria Nazos and a poem about domestic abuse. Second place was a poem by Ladan Osman on a child’s perspective of racial disparities. Third place was Kashiana’s commentary on Laila Chatti.
This year’s pieces also focused more heavily on contemporary poets. This was educational and highly enjoyable for me, including the opportunity to listen to, meet, talk with, and even get to know some of the poets featured. Please note that the “other” Kashiana, Kashiana Sharma, does not exist. She is one of the virtual residents of The Republic of Dreams.
Yes, we’ll probably do this again next year (“Yay! We’re being renewed for another season!”), but I think I’ll need to draft some additional editorial help.If you’d like to volunteer, let me know.
A catalog of this year’s episodes is included below. If you’ve liked any of this, please SHARE on your favorite social media platform.
--Steve Spanoudis.
1. Denise Levertov - The Room
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-01---Denise-Levertov-etm13r
2. Molly Peacock - The Flaw
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-02---Molly-Peacock-ettvmq
3. Terence Degnan - the yes no
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-03-Terence-Degnan-eu2bvk
4. Vassar Miller - Without Ceremony - article by Nelson Howard Miller
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-03-Vassar-Miller-eu49ut
5. Ladan Osman - The Key
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-05-Ladan-Osman-eu5vmv
6. Pat Mora - Curandera
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-06-Pat-Mora-eu65og
7. Maria Nazos - Waitress in a Small Town Seaside Tavern
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-07-Maria-Nazos-eubgl1
8. Hayden Carruth - The Ravine - article by Nelson Howard Miller
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-08-Hayden-Carruth-eublto
9. Eaven Borland - Becoming Anne Bradstreet
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-09-Eavan-Borland-eucpuc
10. Tishani Doshi - The Day We Went to the Sea
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-10-Tishani-Doshi-eul1fc
11. Yolanda Wisher - sonnet w/ cooking lexicon
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-11-Yolanda-Wisher-eun0hl
12. Laila Chatti - Deluge - article by Kashiana Singh
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-12-Leila-Chatti-eun4c5
13. Tina Cane - Some Kinds of Fire
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-01---Tina-Cane--Anna-Akhmatova-euriuc
14. Richard Blanco - La Florida Room
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-14---Richard-Blanco-eutlfj
15. Michael Hamburger - Grape and Nut Letter - article by Nelson Howard Miller
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-15-Michael-Hamburger-euv861
16. Ted Kooser - In the Basement of the Goodwill Store
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-16---Ted-Kooser-ev0jd3
17. Keorapetse William Kgositsile - Anguish Longer Than Sorrow
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-17-Keorapetse-William-Kgositsile-ev40s
18. Melissa Balmain - Love Poem
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-18-Melissa-Balmain-ev653a
19. Kazim Ali - The Voice of Sheila Chandra - article by Kashiana Singh
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-19-The-gleaming-work-of-Kazim-Ali---The-Voice-of-Sheila-Chandra-ev7kld
20. Nora Dauenhauer - Amelia’s FIrst Ski Run
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-20-Nora-Marks-Dauenhauer-ev8fum
21. Vona Groarke - Still Life in Marble
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-21-Vona-Groarke-evaoi4
22. Kashiana Sharma (f) - The View from Above
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-22-Kashiana-Sharma-fictional-evek5o
23. Fred Marchant - This is What the Mind Does
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-23-Fred-Marchant-evism2
24. Michael Torres - Because My Brother Knows Why They Call Them “County Blues,” but Won’t Tell Me Why
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-24-Michael-Torres-evlgs6
25. Khaled Mattawa - Bedtime Reading for the Unborn Child
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-25-Khaled-Mattawa-evn34c
26. Rita Dove - Dusting
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-26---Rita-Dove-evpoaa
27. Rainer Maria Rilke - Go to the limits of your longing - article by Kashiana Singh
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/20201-NPM-27---JoJo-Rabbit-and-Rainer-Maria-Rilke-e100ihe
28. Naomi Shihab Nye - You are Your Own State Department
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-28-Naomi-Shihab-Nye-e104bk7
29. Yonatan Berg - Unity
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-29-Yonatan-Berg-e106cpl
30. Jane Hirshfield - Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight
https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-30-Jane-Hirshfield-e106jed
The full text of all articles is available at The Other Pages mirrors
on Facebook: https://facebook.com/theotherpages
And Tumblr: https://theotherpages.tumblr.com
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#national poetry month#napowrimo#2021#the other pages#theotherpages.org#Nelson Howard Miller#Kashiana Singh#steve spanoudis
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Liked on YouTube: Cleansing St. Paul (Ḵeixwnéi Nora Marks Dauenhauer) https://youtu.be/X-p1d4gY86Q
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Liked on YouTube: Salmon Egg Puller (Ḵeixwnéi Nora Marks Dauenhauer) https://youtu.be/KihVtHkUvrk
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Liked on YouTube: Museum (Ḵeixwnéi Nora Marks Dauenhauer) https://youtu.be/ezhNnYMh1L4
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