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Papers by Gordon Henry

Research paper thumbnail of The Light People

Research paper thumbnail of A Selection of Unpublished Poetry

Gordon Henry is an enrolled member of the White Earth Anishinaabe Nation in Minnesota. Dr. Henry ... more Gordon Henry is an enrolled member of the White Earth Anishinaabe Nation in Minnesota. Dr. Henry is also a Professor in the English Department at Michigan State University, where he teaches American Indian Literature, Creative Writing and the Creative Process, in Integrative Arts and Humanities. He serves as Senior Editor of the American Indian Studies Series (and the series sub-imprint Mukwa Enewed) at Michigan State University Press. Under his editorship the AISS has published research and creative work by an array of scholars, working in a variety of disciplines, related to the larger field of American Indian Studies.

Research paper thumbnail of Jazz Tune for a Hiawatha Woman

Research paper thumbnail of Afterlives of Indigenous Archives

Statement of Theme/Figuration/ the Curatorium American Indian people and cultures have circled an... more Statement of Theme/Figuration/ the Curatorium American Indian people and cultures have circled and circulated, and continue to circle and circulate, through, in and around acts of curates, curators, curation, and the lesser and greater installations of American curatoriums by engaging, disengaging, avoiding, resisting, and redressing the people, places, proj ects, contexts, jurisdictions, and critical interventions involved in the development of the Great American Indian curatorium, whether curated by Natives or nonNatives, or by some combination of both. Curatoriums rely on legal, social, cultural, and po liti cal orga nizational pro cesses of se lection, collection, ordering, exclusion, removal, relocation, production, and interpretation, along with structured event development, to recontextualize Native culture, peoples, places, and repre sen tations, as filtered through human/technical adaptations. (Let me say that current engagements with and extensions of the digital human arc...

Research paper thumbnail of Song for a brother's cross

Research paper thumbnail of Anishinaabeskinuk: Writing Over Skins, Writing Over Imagi (natives)

Wasafiri, 2017

SUMMER IN THE SPRING-A PALIMPSEST, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 'N'gah Auttisokae' In memory of the work o... more SUMMER IN THE SPRING-A PALIMPSEST, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 'N'gah Auttisokae' In memory of the work of Basil Johnston: For the Good People, the good works, the good life of our respected and beloved Anishinaubae writer and teacher. And in memory of Jim Northrup, Anishinaabe, poet, journalist, fiction writer, a word warrior, still even as the earth holds his body now 'Such are many songs of today-the dream songs of forgotten men.' Frances Densmore, Songs of the Chippewa 'It may be that in all of our writing, reading, drawing, painting, filming, singing, storying, renderings of lives, we are trying to cure ourselves, cure ourselves from all that we don't understand about what we decided on, as what went on back there, in what can we only call an irreconcilable past.'

Research paper thumbnail of Stories through theories/theories through stories: North American Indian writing, storytelling, and critique

Choice Reviews Online, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The light people: a novel

Choice Reviews Online, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of The eagleheart narratives: contexts, process, representation, and ceremony in making texts

Stories Through Theories Theories Through Stories North American Indian Writing Storytelling and Critique 2009 Isbn 9780870138416 Pags 291 306, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Song for a brother's cross

En Clave De Frontera Homenaje Al Profesor Urbano Vinuela Angulo 2007 Isbn 978 84 8317 681 8 Pags 27 28, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Cultural relationships in American-Indian literature: the power of world in the works of four american indian novelists

I Jornadas De Estudios Ingleses 1995 Isbn 84 88942 31 1 Pags 111 129, 1995

Research paper thumbnail of The Eagleheart narratives: contexts, process, representation and ceremony in making texts

En Clave De Frontera Homenaje Al Profesor Urbano Vinuela Angulo 2007 Isbn 978 84 8317 681 8 Pags 45 56, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Allegories of engagement: stories/theories-a few remarks

Stories Through Theories Theories Through Stories North American Indian Writing Storytelling and Critique 2009 Isbn 9780870138416 Pags 1 24, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of The Light People

World Literature Today, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of From Letters to the Dead and Distant: Dear Marie, and: Dear Sonny, and: The Mute Scribe Recalls the Talking Circle

Research paper thumbnail of The Light People

Research paper thumbnail of A Selection of Unpublished Poetry

Gordon Henry is an enrolled member of the White Earth Anishinaabe Nation in Minnesota. Dr. Henry ... more Gordon Henry is an enrolled member of the White Earth Anishinaabe Nation in Minnesota. Dr. Henry is also a Professor in the English Department at Michigan State University, where he teaches American Indian Literature, Creative Writing and the Creative Process, in Integrative Arts and Humanities. He serves as Senior Editor of the American Indian Studies Series (and the series sub-imprint Mukwa Enewed) at Michigan State University Press. Under his editorship the AISS has published research and creative work by an array of scholars, working in a variety of disciplines, related to the larger field of American Indian Studies.

Research paper thumbnail of Jazz Tune for a Hiawatha Woman

Research paper thumbnail of Afterlives of Indigenous Archives

Statement of Theme/Figuration/ the Curatorium American Indian people and cultures have circled an... more Statement of Theme/Figuration/ the Curatorium American Indian people and cultures have circled and circulated, and continue to circle and circulate, through, in and around acts of curates, curators, curation, and the lesser and greater installations of American curatoriums by engaging, disengaging, avoiding, resisting, and redressing the people, places, proj ects, contexts, jurisdictions, and critical interventions involved in the development of the Great American Indian curatorium, whether curated by Natives or nonNatives, or by some combination of both. Curatoriums rely on legal, social, cultural, and po liti cal orga nizational pro cesses of se lection, collection, ordering, exclusion, removal, relocation, production, and interpretation, along with structured event development, to recontextualize Native culture, peoples, places, and repre sen tations, as filtered through human/technical adaptations. (Let me say that current engagements with and extensions of the digital human arc...

Research paper thumbnail of Song for a brother's cross

Research paper thumbnail of Anishinaabeskinuk: Writing Over Skins, Writing Over Imagi (natives)

Wasafiri, 2017

SUMMER IN THE SPRING-A PALIMPSEST, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 'N'gah Auttisokae' In memory of the work o... more SUMMER IN THE SPRING-A PALIMPSEST, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 'N'gah Auttisokae' In memory of the work of Basil Johnston: For the Good People, the good works, the good life of our respected and beloved Anishinaubae writer and teacher. And in memory of Jim Northrup, Anishinaabe, poet, journalist, fiction writer, a word warrior, still even as the earth holds his body now 'Such are many songs of today-the dream songs of forgotten men.' Frances Densmore, Songs of the Chippewa 'It may be that in all of our writing, reading, drawing, painting, filming, singing, storying, renderings of lives, we are trying to cure ourselves, cure ourselves from all that we don't understand about what we decided on, as what went on back there, in what can we only call an irreconcilable past.'

Research paper thumbnail of Stories through theories/theories through stories: North American Indian writing, storytelling, and critique

Choice Reviews Online, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The light people: a novel

Choice Reviews Online, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of The eagleheart narratives: contexts, process, representation, and ceremony in making texts

Stories Through Theories Theories Through Stories North American Indian Writing Storytelling and Critique 2009 Isbn 9780870138416 Pags 291 306, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Song for a brother's cross

En Clave De Frontera Homenaje Al Profesor Urbano Vinuela Angulo 2007 Isbn 978 84 8317 681 8 Pags 27 28, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Cultural relationships in American-Indian literature: the power of world in the works of four american indian novelists

I Jornadas De Estudios Ingleses 1995 Isbn 84 88942 31 1 Pags 111 129, 1995

Research paper thumbnail of The Eagleheart narratives: contexts, process, representation and ceremony in making texts

En Clave De Frontera Homenaje Al Profesor Urbano Vinuela Angulo 2007 Isbn 978 84 8317 681 8 Pags 45 56, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Allegories of engagement: stories/theories-a few remarks

Stories Through Theories Theories Through Stories North American Indian Writing Storytelling and Critique 2009 Isbn 9780870138416 Pags 1 24, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of The Light People

World Literature Today, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of From Letters to the Dead and Distant: Dear Marie, and: Dear Sonny, and: The Mute Scribe Recalls the Talking Circle