Irvin Morris

Irvin Morris (born 1958) is a Navajo Nation author from the Tobaahi clan.^[1] He has taught at Cornell University, the State University of New York, the University of Arizona, and Dine College. He received his MFA at Cornell University, and a PhD in American Indian Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo.^[1] His work, From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story (1997) is a blend of Navajo creation narrative, history, fictionalized memoir, and Navajo stories.^[2][3] The title is taken from the Navajo creation story about the last of five existing worlds, our own, which is called the glittering world.

Works

• The Blood Stone. From Neon Powwow, edited by Anna Lee Walters, Northland Press, 1993.
• Squatters. From Neon Powwow, edited by Anna Lee Walters, Northland Press, 1993.

• Morris, Irvin. From the Glittering World : a Navajo story. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. ISBN 080612895X

References

• Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", Collection Building Vol. 17, 1, 1998, p. 4