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Brittany Aldredge Professor Lima THEA 298 6 April 2016 Native American Plays & Playwrights Annette Arkeketa: member of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma. She is also the director of film studies at Comanche Nation College. → Pahdopony: See How Deep the Water Is → Ghost Dance → Hokti Hanay Geiogamah: employs humor, realism, and idiomatic language to subvert negative stereotypes about Native Americans and to address the alienation felt by Indians in contemporary American society. He has taught at Colorado College, the University of Washington and the University of California at Los Angeles, and is one of the founders of the American Indian Theater Ensemble. → Body Indian → Coon Cons Coyote → Foghorn → 49 Diane Glancy: father is Cherokee. Glancy is an English professor and began teaching in 1989 at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, teaching Native American literature and creative writing courses. → The Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance → War Cries: A Collection of Plays → American Gypsy: Six Native American Plays → Cargo → The Collector of a Three-Cornered Stamp → The Conversion of Inversion → The Distant Cry of Betelgeuse → Man Red → Words of my Roaring Linda Hogan: a Chickasaw novelist, essayist, and environmentalist. Hogan’s poetry deals with issues such as the environment and eco-feminism, the relocation of Native Americans, and historical narratives, including oral histories. → Calling Myself Home → Book of Medicines → Rounding the Human Corners

LeAnne Howe: member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She has taught American Indian studies and English at the University of Minnesota and the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. → Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story → Shell Shaker Jim Northup: is an Anishinaabe newspaper columnist, poet, performer and political commentator from the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation in Minnesota. Northrup often tells stories through the perspective of his immediate family, most of whom like himself live a traditional Anishinaabe lifestyle, and uses a folksy style to make points about United States-Native American interactions. → Walking the Rez Road → Rez Road Follies → Anishinaabe Syndicated, A View From the Rez → Shinnob Jep Lynn Riggs: was an American author, poet and playwright born on a farm near Claremore, Oklahoma. He later moved to New York where he worked as a proofreader and clerked for Macy's department store and the American Express Company. → Big Lake → Sump'n Like Wings → A Lantern to See By → Rancor → Roadside → Green Grow the Lilacs → The Cherokee Night E. Donald Two-Rivers: was an Ojibwa performer, poet, playwright, and short story author. He was also the Founding Artistic Director of the Red Path Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois. → Chili Corn → Coyote Sits In Judgement → Forked Tongues → I Aint Tonto → No Honors Today → Old Indian Trick → Peeking Out Of Ameriks Museums → Pow-Wow Posse → Red Requiem - A Political Intrigue On City Streets → Shattered Dream

→ Sunka Cheslie (The Urban Pile) → Survivors Medicine → Whats Buzzin Cousin? → Winter Summit William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.: is an Assiniboine Playwright, Director, Poet, Actor, Writer, and Educator from the Fort Peck Indian reservation located in northeastern Montana. He is presently an adjunct faculty member in the English Department at the University of Maine and a Faculty Affiliate of the Creative Writing Department at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana. → The Bodyguards → The Council → Falling Distance → Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers → Rez Politics Summary There are a variety of Native American playwrights originating from different reservations. Jim Northup is an Anishinaabe newspaper columnist, poet, performer and political commentator from the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation in Minnesota. He tells stories from the perspective of his immediate family who live the traditional Anishinaabe lifestyle. Northup mainly discusses United States and Native American interactions in his literature. E. Donald Two-Rivers is another notable playwright. He is also an established poet, performer, and short story author. Two-Rivers is also the Founding Artistic Director of the Red Path Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois. Annette Arkeketa’s play Hokti is known for its depictions of the roles of Indian women. She challenges actors to play multiple roles while bringing awareness to female struggles. Other notable Native American playwrights and dramatists include, William S. Yellow Robe Jr., Lynn Riggs, LeAnne Howe, Linda Hogan, Diane Glancy and Hanay Geiogamah....