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James Phillip Welch Jr. (November 18, 1940 – August 4, 2003), who grew up within the Blackfeet and A'aninin cultures of his parents, was a Native American novelist and poet, considered a founding author of the Native American Renaissance.
- Author, educator
- Lois Monk (m. 1968)
18 de ago. de 2003 · "Ser considerado el mejor escritor indio estadounidense de Montana es un elogio cuanto menos ambiguo", reconocía James Welch, que murió a los 62 años el pasado 6 de agosto en Missoula, Montana...
James Welch was a prominent author of novels and poetry featuring the American West. He was born in Browning, Montana, and he attended school on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations. He studied with Richard Hugo at the University of Montana.
4 de ago. de 2003 · James Welch was a Blackfeet author who wrote several novels considered part of the Native American Renaissance literary movement. He is best known for his novel "Fools Crow" (1986). His works explore the experiences of Native Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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- August 4, 2003
- January 1, 1940
James Welch, whose books have been published in nine languages, drew his material from his Native American heritage, and his work is most powerful whenever he maintains that focus.
…the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, James Welch’s Winter in the Blood (1974) and Fools Crow (1986), Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony (1977), and Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1984), The Beet Queen (1986), and The Antelope Wife (1998) were powerful and ambiguous explorations of Native American history and identity.
A principal writer in the Native American Renaissance, Welch was born on the Blackfeet Reservation where he spent the early part of his life. His father James Sr., Blackfeet, was a rancher, welder, hospital administrator and, later, a farmer on the Fort Belknap Reservation.
