Richard Dauenhauer

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Richard Dauenhauer is an American poet and translator who has married into, and become an expert on, the Tlingit nation of southeastern Alaska. His wife is the Tlingit poet and scholar Nora Marks Dauenhauer.

He earned his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a dissertation titled Text and Context of Tlingit Oral Tradition.

He is a former poet laureate of Alaska.

Together the Dauenhauers are the editors of the Sealaska Heritage Foundation's highly regarded Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature series.

[edit] Works

• (1982) "Two Missions to Alaska." Pacific Historian, vol. 26, pp. 29-41.

• (1990) "Education in Russian Alaska." In: Russian America: The Forgotten Frontier, ed. by Barbara Smith and Redmond J. Barnett, pp. 155-163. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society.

• (with Nora Marks Dauenhauer) (eds.) (1981) "Because We Cherish You ...": Sealaska Elders Speak to the Future. Juneau: Sealaska Heritage Foundation.

• (with Nora Marks Dauenhauer) (eds.) (1987) Haa Shuká, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives. (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 1.) Seattle: University of Washington Press.

• (with Nora Marks Dauenhauer) (eds.) (1990) Haa Tuwanáagu Yís, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory. (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 2.) Seattle: University of Washington Press.

• (with Nora Marks Dauenhauer) (eds.) (1994) Haa Kusteeyí, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories. (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 3.) Seattle: University of Washington Press.