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Nora Marks Dauenhauer

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Nora Dauenhauer in 2011

Nora Marks Dauenhauer (May 8, 1927 – September 25, 2017[1]) was an American Tlingit poet, short-story writer, and Tlingit language scholar from Alaska. She won an American Book Award for Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804. She was born in Yakutat, Alaska.

Dauenhauer died at her home in Juneau, Alaska on September 25, 2017 at the age of 90.[1]

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Gullufsen, Kevin (25 September 2017). "Native scholar, writer laureate Nora Dauenhauer dies at 90". Juneau Empire. Retrieved 26 September 2017.

Other websites

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  • De Laguna, Frederica (1972) Under Mount St. Elias. 3 vols. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.