Michael Dorris
At a glance:
- Series: American Ethnic Writers
- Categories: Education, Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Novelists, Short Story Writers, Teaching, Teachers, Native Americans, American Indians, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, American Indian History
Article abstract: Writer and educator Michael Dorris had a significant impact on Native American studies as an academic discipline and on the general public's awareness of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).
Michael Dorris's involvement with Native American affairs came quite naturally. The only child of a non-Native American mother and a Modoc father, Dorris spent childhood vacations with relatives who lived on reservations in Montana and Washington. His disdain for being called a Native American writer stemmed from these early experiences; he learned to think of...
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