Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Author of Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice

About the Author

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn of the Crow Creek Sioux Nation is a writer, poet, and professor emerita of Native American studies at Eastern Washington University. Among her many honors is the Oyate Igluwitaya award given by Native university students in South Dakota to those who "aid in the ability of The show more People to see clearly in the company of each other." show less

Works by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth (2001) 51 copies

The Power of Horses and Other Stories (1990) 40 copies

New Indians, Old Wars (2007) 27 copies, 1 review

Aurelia: A Crow Creek Trilogy (1999) 21 copies

From the River's Edge (1991) 18 copies

In Defense of Loose Translations: An Indian Life in an Academic World (2018) 16 copies

A Separate Country: Postcoloniality and American Indian Nations (2011) 14 copies

Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Sun Tracks) (2007) 13 copies, 1 review

That Guy Wolf Dancing: A Novella (2014) 12 copies

Then Badger Said This (1983) 7 copies

I Remember the Fallen Trees: New and Selected Poems (1998) 6 copies

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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) — Contributor — 372 copies, 4 reviews

Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women (1989) — Contributor — 360 copies

Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories (1991) — Contributor — 217 copies, 2 reviews

Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America (1997) — Contributor — 182 copies, 1 review

A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women (1984) — Contributor — 165 copies

Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry (1988) — Contributor — 153 copies

The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979) — Contributor — 77 copies

I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers (1987) — Contributor — 61 copies, 1 review

Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature (2000) — Contributor — 54 copies, 2 reviews

Earth Power Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature (1983) — Contributor — 37 copies, 1 review

Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival (Sun Tracks) (1994) — Contributor — 25 copies

Voices Under One Sky: Contemporary Native Literature (1994) — Contributor — 23 copies, 1 review

Sinister Wisdom 22/23: A Gathering of Spirit: North American Indian Women's Issue (1983) — Contributor — 20 copies

Wounds Beneath the Flesh: Fifteen Native American Poets (1983) — Contributor — 18 copies

Stories for a Winter's Night (2000) — Contributor — 10 copies

The Literary Horse: Great Modern Stories About Horses (1995) — Contributor — 10 copies

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Birthdate: 1930
Gender: female
Occupations: essayist
poet
Awards and honors: Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers Circle of The Americas (2009)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Fort Thompson, South Dakota, USA
Places of residence: Rapid City, South Dakota, USA
Associated Place (for map): South Dakota, USA

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New Indians, Old Wars by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Addresses the ongoing issue of Native American relations. Argues that the American West should be fundamentally understood as stolen and that Native American studies should be considered and pursued as its own discipline.

Jul 9, 2018

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Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn