Richard Dauenhauer
Richard Dauenhauer (born 1942 Syracuse, New York) 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 won an American Book Award for Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804
Life
He earned his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a dissertation titled Text and Context of Tlingit Oral Tradition.[1]
From 1981 to 1988, he was the poet laureate of Alaska.[2]
Together the Dauenhauers are the editors of the Sealaska Heritage Foundation's highly regarded Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature series.
He lives in Juneau. His papers are held at University of Alaska Anchorage.[3]
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.
- Nora Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Lydia T. Black, ed. (2008). Russians in Tlingit America. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-98601-2.
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