Paula Gunn Allen
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Paula Gunn Allen (October 24, 1939 – May 29, 2008) was an American poet, literary critic, activist,[1] professor, and novelist. Of mixed-race European-American, Arab-American, and Native American descent, she identified with her mother's people, the Laguna Pueblo.[2] Gunn Allen wrote numerous essays, stories and poetry with Native American and feminist themes, and two biographies of Native American women. She edited four collections of Native American traditional stories and contemporary writing.
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Born | Paula Marie Francis October 24, 1939 Cubero, New Mexico |
Died | May 29, 2008(2008-05-29) (aged 68) Fort Bragg, California |
Occupation | Poet, novelist |
Nationality | Laguna Pueblo |
Alma mater | University of Oregon, University of New Mexico |
Literary movement | Native American Renaissance |
In addition to her poetry and fiction, in 1986 she published the book, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions,[3][4] in which she posited that Europeans had de-emphasized the role of women in their accounts of Native American cultures because of their own biases, as they were from patriarchal societies.[3]