Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Novelists, Short Story Writers, Poetry, Poets, Teaching, Teachers, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, American Indian History, Women's history
Article abstract: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is an author, poet, scholar, educator, and journal editor.
Born Elizabeth Irving, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn grew up on the Crow Creek Reservation in South Dakota, a scenic landscape of grasslands, rolling hills, and bluffs near the eastern shore of the Missouri River. She comes from a distinguished Dakota Indian family that includes linguists, writers, and tribal political leaders.
The federal government's past policies of forceful assimilation of Native Americans separated many tribal people from their cultural roots....
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