Nora marks dauenhauer biography

Nora Marks Keixwnéi Dauenhauer (May 8, 1927 – September 25, 2017) was a Tlingit poet, short-story writer, and Tlingit language scholar from Alaska.
Nora Marks Dauenhauer was born in Juneau, Alaska, and grew up in Juneau and Hoona; her father was a fisherman and carver, her mother a beader.
Born in Juneau, Alaska, Nora was raised among master carvers, weavers, and beaders who lived a subsistence lifestyle.

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Nora Marks Dauenhauer (Keixwnéi)

Nora Marks Dauenhauer (Ḵeixwnéi) was a Tlingit Clan Mother of the Raven moiety, Lukaax̱.ádi clan, and of the Shaka Hít or Canoe Prow House, from Alsek River, an author, and a culture-bearer whose scholarship documents and shares Tlingit culture and language through oral literature, poetry, theology, folklore, and oral traditions. Born in Juneau, Alaska, as the first child to Emma and Willie Marks, she and her 15 siblings spoke Tlingit as a first language, and traveled between Juneau, Hoonah, and seasonal subsistence hunting and fishing sites. She later learned English at the age of eight, dropping out of school by the sixth grade. She married her first husband, Antonio Bambao Floren, at age 18 and earned her GED as she taught Tlingit at the Juneau-Douglas High School, while her four children went through high school.

Ḵeixwnéi began the Tlingit oratory project in the early 1960s by transcribing and translating speeches given at potlatch, an important ceremonial gathering in Northwest Coastal indigenous communities. By 1972, Tlingit e

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Nora Marks Dauenhauer

Nora Marks Keixwnéi Dauenhauer (Juneau, 8 de maio de 1927 – Juneau, 25 de setembro de 2017) foi uma poetisa Tlingit, contista e acadêmica da língua Tlingit do Alasca. Ela ganhou um American Book Award pela obra Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804. Nora foi laureada de escritora estadual do Alasca de 2012 a 2014.

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Nora Marks nasceu em 8 de maio de 1927, sendo a primeira dos dezesseis filhos de Emma Marks (1913–2006) de Yakutat, Alasca, e Willie Marks (1902–1981), pertencente do povo indígena Tlingit em Hoonah, Alasca. O nome de Nora ao nascer era Keix̱wnéi (para a étnia Tlingit).^[1] Dauenhauer foi criada em Juneau, Hoonah, em locais sazonais de caça e pesca ao redor de Icy Straits, Baía dos Glaciares e Cabo Spencer. A primeira língua de Dauenhauer é Tlingit pois, seguindo sua mãe, no sistema matrilinear Tlingit, ela era um membro da metade Raven da nação Tlingit, do clã Yakutat Lukaax̱.ádi (Salmão Sockeye),^[1] e do Shaka Hít ou Canoe Prow House, do Rio Alsek. Em 1986, el

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Tlingit author, poet, scholar, and culture bearer Nora Ḵeixwnéi Marks Dauenhauer (1927-2017) belonged to the Lukaax.ádi (Raven Sockeye) clan from Shaka. Hít (Canoe Prow House) on the Alsek River.

Born in Juneau, Alaska, Nora was raised among master carvers, weavers, and beaders who lived a subsistence lifestyle. She left school at a young age to help support her family, and later returned to obtain her GED. She went on to earn a bachelor's in Anthropology from Alaska Methodist University in Anchorage. She was later awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Alaska Southeast, where she was a professor. Her other awards included: Humanist of the Year (1980), Alaska Governor's Award for the Arts (1989), Community Spirit Award (2005), Lifetime Achievement Award (2007), American Book Award (1991 and 2008), Alaska Women's Hall of Fame Inductee (2010), Indigenous Leadership Award (2011), and Alaska State Writer Laureate (2012).

Nora’s first language was Łingít. As a fluent speaker, she and her husband, Richard, made significant contributions to preserving Tlingit oral tradit