Returning the Gift 2015: Native America’s Indigenous Storytelling and Literary Festival

Alex Jacobs
12/30/15
You can take The Road Back to Sweetgrass or The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving and probably meet up with Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend and a lot of other interesting characters along the...

Exclusive: Joy Harjo Speaks on Winning Poetry's Most Prestigious Award

Alex Jacobs
9/11/15
Muscogee (Creek) poet Joy Harjo is the first ever Native to win the prestigious Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, which bestows the honor annually “to recog...

Understand Our Culture, or Lose It: Innu Poet Natasha Kanapé Fontaine on Language

Dominique Godrèche
7/5/15
Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, a young Innu poet from Baie-Comeau, lives in Montreal as does her mentor, Josephine Bacon...

Preserving Innu Language Through Verse: A Chat With Poet Josephine Bacon

Dominique Godrèche
7/5/15
Josephine Bacon, a well-known Innu poet originally from Pessamit, Quebec, nowadays makes her home in Montreal...

A Martyr’s Crown: For My Grandmother During Domestic Violence Month (Poem)

Richard Walker
10/15/14
Richard Walker, Mexican/Yaqui, is a newspaper editor in Kitsap County, Washington, and a correspondent for Indian Country Today Media Network...

Muscogee (Creek) Poet Jennifer Foerster on PEN Awards Shortlist

ICTMN Staff
6/22/14
Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma citizen Jennifer Elise Foerster is on the shortlist for one of the world’s most prestigious prizes in literature...

Poetry Inaugurates New Imprint From Chickasaw Nation, White Dog Press

Chickasaw Nation
5/4/14
Dynamic Chickasaw citizen Margie Testerman’s Footprints Still Whispering in the Wind marks the initial publication for the Chickasaw’s White Dog Press...

Ojibwe Author Brings Indian Country to Hungary

Konnie LeMay
2/7/14
Columnist, poet, playwright and humorist Jim Northrup, Fond du Lac Ojibwe, will take on the role as an ambassador for Indian country next week during a speaking tour sponsored by t...

Native Writers and Audiences Come Together at Indigenous Reading Series

Christina Rose
12/28/13
Bill Wetzel, Blackfeet, is trying to do something he doesn’t think has been done before...

Taking Back the Beaches: Restoration, a Poem for Heritage Month

Richard Walker
11/30/13
Richard Walker, Mexican/Yaqui, is a journalist living on the Kitsap Peninsula of Washington state...

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