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Press Release
Nov. 8, 2004 (Photo)
SEALASKA HERITAGE AUTHOR RECEIVES AWARD FOR LITERATURE
A Tlingit writer who has co-authored several important Native books for Sealaska Heritage Institute is one of five artists nationwide to win a 2005 Community Spirit Award from the First Peoples Fund.
Nora Marks Dauenhauer of Juneau was chosen for her contributions to literature, according to the Fund, a Native organization in South Dakota founded in 1995 to honor and support the creative community-centered First People’s artists and nurture the collective spirit that allows them to sustain their people.
“I really enjoyed winning this award from a Native American organization. It means Native Americans appreciate what I wrote,” said Dauenhauer, who was nominated for the annual award by Native artist Nathan Jackson.
Dauenhauer said she is especially indebted to the tradition bearers who helped her along the way.
“They were very generous and they wanted me to work with what they knew. For this I am very grateful,” said Dauenhauer.
“I am also grateful to the editors and publishers who had faith in my work and accepted it,” said Dauenhauer, citing Andy Hope, Ron and Suzanne Scollon, Pat Soden and the University of Washington Press, Ofelia Zepeda and the Sun Tracks series editors at the University of Arizona Press, Sealaska Heritage Institute, and “the many other editors of additional journals, books and anthologies that have included my work. Thanks also to Sealaska Heritage Naa Kahidi Theatre, which commissioned and first performed my Raven plays in the United States and abroad.”
Dauenhauer’s works for the institute include Tlingit Spelling Book, Beginning Tlingit and Tlingit Phrase Book, which she co-authored and co-edited with her husband, Dick Dauenhauer. The couple also produced three volumes of Tlingit texts and translations published jointly by the institute and the University of Washington Press, Seattle. Dauenhauer’s creative writing includes The Droning Shaman (a book of poems now out of print but scheduled for reissue in a reprint series by Tlingit Readers), and Life Woven with Song, published by the University of Arizona Press.
Dauenhauer will accept
the $5,000 award on Dec. 3 during ceremonies and celebration at the
Journey Museum in Rapid City, South Dakota.
CONTACT: Nora Marks Dauenhauer, 586-4708