Word Craft Circle 2001 Honors (for Native lit)

[Debbie Reese <d-reese@UIUC.EDU>]

I meant to distribute this a few weeks ago. There is much here of interest
to librarians seeking literature and other materials for the Native
American collection.

Debbie Reese

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Subject: HONORS 2001 RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE.... Thank you.

October 5, 2001

Thirty-three individuals will be honored October 12th at the tenth
annual Returning The Gift Festival of Native Writers and Storytellers
to be hald in Norman, Oklahoma.

The individuals will be honored for their demonstrated commitment to
the vision of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers: to
ensure that the voices of Native writers and storytellers --past, present,
and future-- are heard throughout the world.

For more information about the honors recipients, Wordcraft Circle, and
the Returning The Gift (RTG) Festival, please visit our website:
<http://www.wordcraftcircle.org>


Honors and Awards 2001 Recipients

Wordcrafter of the Year
Kimberly Roppolo (Cherokee/Choctaw/Muscogee)

Wordcraft Circle Mentor of the Year
Allison Hedge Coke (Huron/Cherokee)

Wordcraft Circle Intern of the Year
Jay Goombi (Kiowa)

WRITER OF THE YEAR

CREATIVE
Poetry
Adrian Louis (Lovelock Paiute) for Ancient Acid Flashes Back
Prose
Fiction
Geary Hobson (Cherokee/Quapaw/Chickasaw) for
The Last of the Ofos
Non-Fiction
Shari Huhndorf (Cook Inlet Yupik) for Going Native: Indians in
The American Cultural Imagination
Children's Literature
Joy Harjo (Muscogee) for The Good Luck Cat

Cynthia Leitich Smith (Cherokee) for Rain is Not My Indian Name
Anthology Collection
John Purdy and James Ruppert for Nothing But The Truth: An
Anthology of Native American Literature
Autobiographical Essays
Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann for Here First: Autobiographical
Essays by Native American Writers

ACADEMIC
Master's Thesis
Sierra Adare (Cherokee) for "Stereotypical Indian Images in TV
Science Fiction
Doctoral Dissertation
Virginia Carney (Cherokee) for "A Testament to Tenacity: Cultural
Persistence in the Letters and Speeches of Eastern Band Cherokee
Women."
TECHNICAL
Workbook/Manual
Carolyna Smiley-Marquez (San Juan Pueblo) for Omaha Managers
Workbook
Guide
Robert M. Nelson for ASAIL Guide to Native American Studies Programs
in the United States and Canada (editor).

SPECIALTY
CD Recording
Wade Fernandez (Menominee) for Wiciwen Apis-Mahwaew in 2000
Cookbook
Gail Gottlieb Minturn (Laguna Pueblo) for In Our Grandmothers'
Kitchens: A Family Memoir and Cookbook
Journal Editing
Devon Mihesuah (Choctaw) for editing AIQ (American Indian Quarterly)
Mixed Media
Lee Maracle (Stoh:lo First Nation of British Columbia) and Sandra
LaRonde (Teme-augma Anishinabe First Nation) for My Home
As I Remember
Syndicated Column
Jim Northrup (Anishinabe) for The Fond du Lac Follies


STORYTELLER OF THE YEAR

TRADITIONAL STORIES
Gayle Ross (Cherokee)

CONTEMPORARY STORYTELLING
Tim Tingle (Choctaw)


PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR
SMALL PRESS
rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING - MariJo Moore (Cherokee), Publisher

NATIONAL PUBLISHER
Harcourt Brace - Children's Books, New York, NY - Paula Wiseman, Executive
Editor

UNIVERSITY PRESS
American Indian Lives Series, University of Nebraska Press - Gary Dunham,
Editor

OUTSIDE U.S. PUBLISHER
Kegedonce Press - Kateri-Akiwenzie Damm (Nawash First Nation), Publisher for
Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing - American Indian, Inuit, First
Nations,
Aboriginal and Maori


FOUNDATION OF THE YEAR

Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico - J. Patrick Lannan, Jr., President

SOVEREIGN INDIGENOUS NATIVE NATION OF THE YEAR

Citizen Band Potawatomi, Shawnee, Oklahoma - John A. "Rocky" Barrett, Chairman


SPECIAL HONORS

Louise Abeyta (Laguna Pueblo)

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (Rosebud Lakota)

Karen M. Strom


CONTACT: Lee Francis (Laguna Pueblo), National Director, Wordcraft Circle
Voice: (505) 352-0650 FAX: (505) 352-9509 Email: wordcraft@sockets.net





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Debbie Reese, Visiting Lecturer
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Email: d-reese@uiuc.edu
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