Friday, February 19th, 1999

STREAMING version of GORDON HENRY,
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"For me storytelling is important because it has the capacity to change, or turn, the consciousness of both the storyteller and the listener." --Gordon Henry, in a North Dakota Quarterly interview Poet and novelist Gordon Henry is an enrolled member of the White Earth Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota and an associate professor of English at Michigan State University. He has a master's degree from Michigan State University and a PhD from the University of North Dakota. His poetry and fiction have been included in numerous anthologies of American Indian literature, and his first novel, The Light People, was nominated for a National Book Award in 1994 and won an American Book Award in 1995. SELECTED WORKS The Light People: A Novel. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Outside White Earth. Marvin, South Dakota: Blue Cloud Quarterly, 1986. "Arthur Boozhoo On the Nature of Magic." Native American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology. Ed. Gerald Vizenor. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1995. 235-242. "Sleeping in Rain." Earth Power Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature. Ed. Simon J. Ortiz. Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press, 1983. 93-96. CRITICAL SOURCES Blaeser, Kimberly M. "The New 'Frontier' of Native American Literature: Dis-Arming History with Tribal Humor." Native American Perspectives on Literature and History. Ed. Alan R. Velie. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. 37-50. Flys, Carmen. "An Interview with Gordon Henry, Jr." North Dakota Quarterly, 63:4 (1996): 167-79.

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