James Welch (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
James Phillip Welch was born in Browning, Montana, the administrative center of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, and attended school on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations as a boy. His father, James, Sr., a member of the Blackfeet, was a rancher, welder, and hospital administrator for the Indian Health Service. His mother, Rosella O’Bryan Welch, a member of the Gros Ventre tribe, worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Welch attended the University of Minnesota and Northern Montana College before completing a bachelor of arts degree at the...
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