James Welch
At a glance:
- Series: American Ethnic Writers
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Novelists, Short Story Writers, Poetry, Poets, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, American Indian History
Article abstract: James Welch's publication of several novels and a book of poetry earned him national recognition as an American Indian writer.
James Welch received his Indian bloodline from his mother, of the Gros Ventre tribe, and from his father, of the Blackfoot tribe. Although his parents had as much Irish as Indian ancestry, for the most part he grew up in Indian territory. He attended Indian high schools in Browning and Fort Belknap, Montana.
In 1965, while Welch was a student at the University of Montana, his mother, a stenographer at the...
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