Nora Marks Dauenhauer

Nora Marks Dauenhauer (May 8, 1927 – September 25, 2017[1]) was an American Tlingit poet, short-story writer, and Tlingit language scholar from Alaska. She won an American Book Award for Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804. She was born in Yakutat, Alaska.

Nora Dauenhauer in 2011

Dauenhauer died at her home in Juneau, Alaska on September 25, 2017 at the age of 90.[1]

References
  1. Gullufsen, Kevin (25 September 2017). "Native scholar, writer laureate Nora Dauenhauer dies at 90". Juneau Empire. Retrieved 26 September 2017.

Other websites
  • De Laguna, Frederica (1972) Under Mount St. Elias. 3 vols. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.


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