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<br><br><blockquote><hr>Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 17:38:15 -0700<br>From: mohawk6nations@yahoo.com<br>Subject: Fwd: FW: Death of Paula Gunn Allen<br>To: kauanui@hotmail.com<br><br><blockquote class="EC_replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">________________________________<br><br>From: SAIL Discussion Group on behalf of Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown<br>Sent: Fri 5/30/2008 3:55 PM<br>To: ASAIL-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU<br>Subject: Death of Paula Gunn Allen<br><br><br><br>Dear Colleagues:<br><br>Paula Gunn Allen died on 29 May at 10:43 p.m. Her daughter, Laura Lee<br>Brown, just called to let me know. She will be buried in Fort Bragg,<br>California. Those who wish to memorialize her are encouraged to make<br>donations in her memory to the Lannan Foundation; last year, it gave her<br>two-year fellowship.<br><br>Paula was a very dear friend for over thirty years. She called a couple<br>of weeks ago to tell me she had been diagnosed with ter!
minal lung cancer<br>and had four to six months to live. After we talked about her illness,<br>she joked about the election. She laughed at the irony of the fact that<br>she would not live to
see the first person of color, Barak Obama, elected<br>president. "Just my luck," she said. When I spoke to her last week, she<br>was very weak and unable to get out of bed.<br><br>When the family sends me an obituary, I will forward it.<br><br>It is thirty-one years since she directed the MLA-NEH Summer Seminar on<br>Contemporary Native American Literature, held in Flagstaff in 1977. She<br>edited the volume that came out of that seminar: STUDIES IN AMERICAN<br>INDIAN LITERATURE: CRITICAL ESSAYS AND COURSE DESIGNS (1983), the first<br>book on teaching this literature. Her SACRED HOOP: RECOVERING THE FEMININE<br>IN AMERICAN INDIAN TRADITIONS (1986)influenced many scholars. A very<br>talented creative writer, Paula published several volumes of poetry and a<br>novel, THE WOMAN WHO OWNED THE SHADOWS (1983). She also edited<br>collections of Native American literature. Her most recent book was<br>POCAHONTAS: MEDICINE WOMAN, SPY, ENTREPRENEUR, DIPLOMAT
(2003).<br><br>Sadly,<br><br>LaVonne<br><br><br><br><br>--<br>A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff<br>Professor Emerita of English<br>University of Illinois at Chicago<br>Home Address: 300 Forest Avenue<br>Oak Park, IL 60302-2012<br>Phone: 708-848-9292 FAX: 708-848-9308<br></blockquote><br><br><br>Lisa Mitten<br>http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html
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