Laux is the author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990), What We Carry (1994), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Smoke (2000). She is also co-author, with Kim Addonizio, of The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton, 1997).
Native American activist and dancer
Innovative Jazz Age vocalist
The last known living member of the Beothuk people, indigenous inhabitants of Newfoundland, Canada.
Ida Blackeagle was a Cultural Demonstrator at the Nez Perce National Historical Park who was instrumental to the revitalization of Nimíipuu cornhusk weaving in the mid-twentieth century.
Native American author
Rep. Sharice Davids is the first openly LGBTQ Native American woman to serve in the US Congress.
Native American rights activist and environmentalist
American fiber artist
Shenandoah D. Ellis-Ulmer served in the US Air Force for 21 years beginning in 1994 and attained the rank of master sergeant.