Laura Tohe

Laura Tohe (born 1952) is a Native American author and poet.[1] She is poet laureate of the Navajo Nation for 2015–2019,[2] and is a professor emerita of English at Arizona State University.[3]

Tohe was born in Fort Defiance, Arizona, the daughter of a Navajo code talker.[2] She earned a B.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1975, an M.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1985, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 1993. She has been affiliated with Arizona State University since 1994.[4]

Books

Tohe's books include:

  • Making Friends with Water (Nosila Press, 1986)
  • No Parole Today (West End Press, 1999)[5]
  • Tséyi' / Deep in the Rock: Reflections on Canyon de Chelly (with photographer Stephen E. Strom, University of Arizona Press, 2005)[6]
  • Code Talker Stories (Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2012)[7]

References

  1. ↑ McClinton-Temple, Jennifer; Velie, Alan (2010), "Tohe, Laura", Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature, Infobase Publishing, pp. 361–362, ISBN 9781438120874
  2. 1 2 White, Kaila (December 23, 2015), "Navajo Nation poet laureate Laura Tohe", Amazing Arizonans, The Arizona Republic
  3. ↑ Laura Tohe, Arizona State University, retrieved 2018-07-05
  4. ↑ Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2018-07-05
  5. ↑ Webster, Anthony K. (June 2010), "Imagining Navajo in the Boarding School: Laura Tohe's No Parole Today and the Intimacy of Language Ideologies", Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 20 (1): 39–62, doi:10.1111/j.1548-1395.2010.01047.x
  6. ↑ Orr, Delilah G. (Spring 2008), "Review of Tséyi", Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, 20 (1): 90–92, JSTOR 20737415
  7. ↑ Wilson, Suzanne (November 30, 2017), "Code Talker 101: ASU professor, storyteller offers insight on history", ASU Now
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