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Nora Marks Dauenhauer

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Nora Marks Dauenhauer

ペンネーム: KeixwnéiTlingit name at birth / clan name

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1927-05-08 (Juneau, Territory of Alaska, U.S.)
死没
2017-09-25 (Juneau, Alaska, U.S.) 90歳
国籍
United States
言語
Tlingit, English
居住地歴
Juneau (primary residence) → Hoonah (seasonal residence) → Yakutat (maternal family area) → Icy Strait / Glacier Bay (seasonal hunting and fishing sites) → Cape Spencer (seasonal sites)

経歴

職業
Poet, Writer, Tlingit language scholar, Educator
活動期間
1970年〜2017年
所属
Alaska Native Language Center (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Sealaska Heritage Foundation, University of Alaska Southeast (honorary degree)
影響を受けた人物
Ancestral and clan oral traditions, Family knowledge-bearers (e.g., Frank Italio as an informant to ethnographers), Richard Dauenhauer (husband and collaborator)
影響を与えた人物
Tlingit language revitalization efforts and subsequent generations of learners, Scholars and writers of Indigenous Alaskan literature

学歴

Alaska Methodist University (now Alaska Pacific University)
Faculty (Anthropology) / Anthropology
学位: Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology)
期間: 1970s - 1976
卒業年: 1976
国: United States
Learned English after childhood, obtained GED and later completed BA in Anthropology

受賞歴

Humanist of the Year (Alaska Humanities Forum)
1980
主催: Alaska Humanities Forum
結果: 受賞
Alaska Governor's Award for the Arts (Native Alaskan Artist Award, co-recipient)
1989
主催: State of Alaska
結果: 受賞(共同)
American Book Award (Before Columbus Foundation)
1991
主催: Before Columbus Foundation
結果: 受賞
Honorary Doctor of Humanities
2001
主催: University of Alaska Southeast
結果: 授与
Community Spirit Award (First Peoples Fund)
2005
主催: First Peoples Fund
結果: 受賞
Lifetime Achievement Award (Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska)
2007
主催: Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska
結果: 受賞
American Book Award (for Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká / Russians in Tlingit America)
2008
対象作品: Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká / Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804
主催: Before Columbus Foundation / University of Washington Press (publisher)
結果: 受賞(編集者としての貢献)
Inductee, Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
2010
主催: Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
結果: 殿堂入り
Alaska State Writer Laureate
2012
部門: 2012–2014
主催: Alaska State Council on the Arts / Alaska Humanities Forum
結果: 任命

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká / Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804

2008年 History / Ethnohistory / Edited oral narratives 491ページ

An edited volume drawing on Tlingit oral accounts and historical sources to document the contact between Russians and the Tlingit around Sitka in 1802 and 1804, emphasizing local perspectives and cultural context.

colonial contactoral historycultural memory

Life Woven with Song

2000年 Poetry / Autobiographical prose

A collection of poems and prose drawing on personal memory and clan narratives, blending lyric pieces with dramatized traditional Raven stories reflecting life on the northern Pacific coast.

memoryclan narrativesnature and the sea

Beginning Tlingit

1976年 Language learning / Ethnolinguistics

An introductory textbook for learning Tlingit, created as a practical resource for language preservation and teaching in Southeast Alaska.

language preservationeducationtranscription of oral tradition

全著作

  • Beginning Tlingit (1976)
  • Life Woven with Song (2000)
  • Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká / Russians in Tlingit America (ed., 2008)
  • Haa Shuká, Our Ancestors (with Richard Dauenhauer, 1987)
  • Haa Tuwanáagu Yís, for Healing Our Spirit (with Richard Dauenhauer, 1990)
  • Haa Kusteeyí, Our Culture (with Richard Dauenhauer, 1994)

作風・主題

文体
Lyrical style incorporating oral-tradition formsConcise, dense expression reflecting the rhythms and symbolism of traditional storytelling
頻出モチーフ
sea and landRavenclan and ancestral narrativeslanguage and memory

評価・遺産

Nora Marks Dauenhauer made major contributions to the documentation and teaching of the Tlingit language and oral culture. As a poet, editor, and scholar she preserved regional history and memory and received wide recognition, including serving as Alaska State Writer Laureate.

記念館・博物館

  • Sealaska Heritage Institute Juneau, Alaska, U.S.

資料所蔵先

  • Sealaska Heritage Institute Archives
  • University of Alaska Southeast / Juneau libraries and archives

引用

  • Tlingit is not as simple as people think; I find it to be one of the hardest languages I have encountered.
    出典: Interview (KTOO) (2015年)

豆知識

  • Born the first of 16 children.
  • Tlingit name at birth: Keix̱wnéi (clan name).
  • Given the title Naa Tláa (Clan Mother) in 2010 as ceremonial clan leader.
  • Collaborated extensively with her husband Richard Dauenhauer on research and publications.