Occupation Poet Education University of Montana Role Poet | Name Nila northSun Nationality Shoshone | |
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Notable works A snake in her mouth: poems 1974–96 Literary movement Native American Renaissance Books A snake in her mouth, Love at Gunpoint: Poems Born 1951 (age 70), Schurz, Nevada, United States Similar Duane Niatum, Deborah A Miranda, Nora Naranjo Morse | ||
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nila northSun [sic] is a Native American poet and tribal historian.
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northSun's gritty, realistic poems about life both on and off the reservation have made her one of the most widely read of all Native American poets.
She is often considered an influential writer in the second wave of the Native American Renaissance.
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Background
northSun was born in 1951 in Schurz, Nevada to a Shoshone mother and a Chippewa father, Native American activist Adam Fortunate Eagle.
Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she is a graduate of the University of Montana-Missoula.
In 2000, the "Friends of the Library" group at the University of Nevada honored her with the Silver Pen Award for outstanding literary achievement. Governor Kenny Guinn appointed her to the Nevada State Arts Council that same year.
In 2004, she received the "Indigenous Heritage Award in Literature" from ATAYL, an international agency.
She lives on the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation in Fallon, Nevada and works as a grant writer for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony.