Jeannette Armstrong
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Jeannette Armstrong, 1948 - Jeannette Armstrong is an Okanagan Indian who was born in 1948 on the Penticton Indian Reserve in British Columbia. She is considered to be the first Native American woman novelist, and is also a writer, teacher, artist, sculptor and activist. She received a traditional mehr anzeigen education from Okanagan elders and her family and in 1978, she obtained a BFA from the University of Victoria in 1978. Armstrong writes poetry, fiction, essays and children's literature. In 1986 Armstrong became the director of the En'owkin Centre in Penticton. She is also the first director of the En'owkin International School of Writing in Penticton, a creative-writing school organized by and for Native people which grants diplomas through the University of Victoria. She also teaches creative writing and performance. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Gatherings, Volume VII - Standing Ground: Strength and Solidarity Amidst Dissolving Boundaries (1996) 6 Exemplare
We Get Our Living Like Milk from the Land 1 Exemplar
Enwhisteetkwa Walk in Water 1 Exemplar
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Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America (1997) — Mitwirkender — 165 Exemplare
All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Native Prose (1990) — Mitwirkender — 59 Exemplare
Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on Writing (Sun Tracks) (1997) — Mitwirkender — 44 Exemplare
The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women (1993) — Mitwirkender — 29 Exemplare
Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival (Sun Tracks, Vol 29) (1994) — Mitwirkender — 22 Exemplare
We Get Our Living Like Milk from the Land: History of Okanagan Nation (1993) — Herausgeber — 8 Exemplare
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- Andere Namen
- Armstrong, Jeannette Christine (birth name)
- Geburtstag
- 1948
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Okanagan Nation
Canada - Wohnorte
- Penticton Indian Reserve, British Columbia, Canada
- Ausbildung
- University of Victoria (1978)
Okanagan College (Fine Arts) - Berufe
- author
teacher
artist
activist
judge - Beziehungen
- Mourning Dove (great aunt)
- Organisationen
- En’owkin Centre (Executive Director)
Center for Ecoliteracy (Consultant)
World Institute for Humanities at Salado (Consultant)
Omega Institute (Consultant)
First Nations Court of Justice
Centre for Creative Change (Consultant) (Zeige alle 7)
Continental Coordinating Commission of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations (International Observer) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Honory Doctorate in Letters, St. Thomas University, 2000
Mungo Martin Award (1974)
Helen Pitt Memorial Award (1978)
Buffett Award for Aboriginal Leadership (2003)
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