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Paula Gunn Allen

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Born: October 23 1939

Died: 2828 05 20082008

Paula Gunn Allen was a Native American poet, literary critic, lesbian activist, and novelist.

Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation. Of mixed Laguna, Sioux, Scottish, and Lebanese-American descent, Allen always identified most closely with the people among whom she spent her childhood and upbringing.

Having obtained a BA and MFA from the University of Oregon, Allen gained her PhD at the University of New Mexico, where she taught and where she began her research into various tribal religions.

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Paula Gunn Allen

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Books from Paula Gunn Allen

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing

Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women

The Woman Who Owned the Shadows

Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat

Grandmothers of The Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook

Voice of the Turtle

Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting Border-Crossing Loose Cannons

Song of the Turtle: American Indian Literature 1974-1994 (Song of the Turtle)

Through the Eye of the Deer: An Anthology of Native American Women Writers

Skins and Bones

Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry

As Long As The Rivers Flow

The Serpent's Tongue: Prose, Poetry, and Art of the New Mexican Pueblos

I Was Indian (Before Being Indian Was Cool): An Anthology Of Native Literature (Volume 1)

Senza riserve. Geografie del contatto

Hozho--Walking in Beauty: Native American Stories of Inspiration, Humor, and Life

Pocahontas

Shadow Country

Rosicrucian Digest Volume 99 Number 1 2021: The Sacred Feminine