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  Bear
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 SAIL Ser.1, 6.3
Ray Young Bear, born and raised on the Mesquaki Settlement near Tama, Iowa, is among a growing number of American Indian writers who have transmogrified the oral tradition of their people into a written form accessible to those outside of Native American culture.
Young Bear acknowledges his often bitter tone, questioning himself about what may be "perhaps too much anger," but aware that the anger is real, nurtured by years of living on the edge of a white midwestern community which still knows little about its Mesquaki neighbors and generally avoids the dirt road through the Settlement.
Ray Anthony Young Bear is indeed a keeper of importance.
oncampus.richmond.edu /faculty/ASAIL/SAILns/63.html   (3965 words)

  
 "Reaching Out, Keeping Away"--An Interview with Ray A. Young Bear
Young Bear: First of all, I should say that I am not an historian, but this is what I know of the Mesquakie tribe, of which I am an enrolled member and lifelong resident in central Iowa.
Young Bear: The music troupe, the singers, is comprised of my brothers, Todd and Russell Young Bear; my nephew, Elgin Young Bear; my wife, Stella; her brother Gordon Lasley, who is a renowned Fancy Feather dancer, as well as Clark and Eloise Lasley; and myself.
Young Bear: Having been raised by my maternal grandmother for the first ten years of my life and being dependent on her for career advice and spiritual and medicinal guidance, I am indebted to her for apprising me of Mesquakie codes and precepts, ways to live.
www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/youngbear/interview.htm   (2921 words)

  
 Ray A. Young Bear
"Authority in the Poetry of Ray A. Young Bear" -- An Essay by Robert Dale Parker
"The Poetic Languages of Ray Young Bear"--An Essay by James Ruppert
Young Bear's Poem "Our Bird Aegis" with his Commentary
www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/youngbear/youngbear.htm   (83 words)

  
 Ray A. Young Bear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
What it Means to be a Meskwaki, a 1994 interview with Ray Young Bear.
Ray Young Bear entry on the Modern American Poetry website.
Ray A. Young Bear has received a creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1976.
www.hanksville.org /storytellers/youngbear   (1002 words)

  
 Welcome to Red Hen Press
Ray A. Young Bear, Meskwaki (People of the Red Earth), was born in 1950 in Marshalltown, IA and raised on the Meskwaki Tribal Settlement near Tama, IA, where he lives today with his wife, Stella and his nephew, Jesse.
This tribally-owned land is not a "reservation." Ray and Stella are co-founders of a cultural performance group, Black Eagle Child, that has toured the Midwest and The Netherlands.
Ray has since taught creative writing and Native American literature at The Institute of American Indian Art (1984), Eastern Washington University (1987), Meskwaki Indian Elementary School (1988-89), the University of Iowa (1989) and at Iowa State University (1993 and 1998).
www.redhen.org /rayyoungbear.asp   (553 words)

  
 Kalaidjian, Understanding Poetry- Biographies, Links, and Secondary Sources
Born in Marshalltown, Iowa, Ray A. Young Bear is a member of the Mesquakie Tribal community; Mesquakie translated means "People of the Red Earth." Young Bear is the great-great grandson of the Mesquakie Okima (or tribal chief) Maminwanike.
Between 1969 and 1971, Young Bear attended Pomona College and went on to study creative writing at the University of Iowa (1971), Grinnell College (1973), at Northern Iowa University (1975-76), and at Iowa State University (1980).
Young Bear views his poetry as an art of connection among the various dimensions of how the Native American heritage is lived in the present.
college.hmco.com /english/kalaidjian/understanding_poetry/1e/students/poetry/bear.html   (527 words)

  
 Diamonds and Turquoise: The Poetry of N. Scott Momaday
Ray Young Bear, an Iowa Mesquakie, employs a surrealism in his poetry unlike that in Welch's; it plays in and out of a vocabulary of folklore that often "realizes" the apparently surreal.
The fan, a portion of an eagle's wing, at once stands for and is the eagle, and its state of being it transfers to the speaker, whose hand simultaneously holds the eagle, is the eagle's foot clasping a perch in a bristlecone pine, and is the fine, hollow-boned wing riding the thin air.
Young Bear's poetry often seems to be addressed to Mesquakie elders; images and phrases communicate beautifully to outsiders, but the whole statement of a poem often eludes our understanding.
www.dancingbadger.com /diamond.htm   (3376 words)

  
 Iowa Avenue Literary Walk: Authors
Young Bear, whose first language is Mesquakie, began to seriously write in English when he was in his teens.
Young Bear received his higher education from several institutions: Pomona College in California; Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa; the University of Northern Iowa; and Iowa State University.
Young Bear's poetry volumes include Waiting to be Fed (1975), Winter of the Salamander: The Keeper of Importance (1980), and The Rock Island Hiking Club (2001).
www.icgov.org /literarywalk/authors/rbear.htm   (275 words)

  
 WCFCourier.com | The Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier Online!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Keith Davenport, Deron Ward, Frank Black Cloud and Ray Young Bear won seats on the tribal council and were sworn in Thursday.
Bear council spokesman Tom Jochum said reforming the constitution and reopening the casino were pressing issues.
Bear's group, initially appointed by the tribe's hereditary chief, took possession of offices last spring after the Tribal Council chaired by Alex Walker Jr.
www.wcfcourier.com /articles/2003/11/09/news/regional/61d8fe7e3ffd27bb86256dd9000632bf.txt   (575 words)

  
 Poet: Ray A. Young Bear - All poems of Ray A. Young Bear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Poet: Ray A. Young Bear - All poems of Ray A. Young Bear
Young Bear has been a frequent contributor to the field and study of...
Young Bear, Meskwaki (People of the Red Earth), was born in 1950 in Marshalltown, IA and raised on the...
www.poemhunter.com /ray-a-young-bear/poet-14749   (232 words)

  
 Bear_Ray_Young_ia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ray Young Bear was born at the Mesquakie Indian Settlement (near Tama) in 1951.
Young Bear is a poet and has attended Claremont College in California.
In 1983 Young Bear and his wife Stella founded the Woodland Song and Dance Troupe of the Arts Midwest.
www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/bear_ray_young_ia.htm   (156 words)

  
 American Indian Poets Linda Hogan and Ray A. Young Bear to Read Their Poems
Ray A. Young Bear, born in Marshalltown, Iowa, is Meskwaki (People of the Red Earth).
Young Bear and his wife, Stella, are co-founders of a cultural performance group, Black Eagle Child.
Young Bear attended Pomona College, the University of Iowa, Grinnell College, Northern Iowa University and Iowa State University.
www.loc.gov /today/pr/2005/05-079.html   (380 words)

  
 SAIL Ser.2, 5.2
Young Bear acknowledges his often bitter tone, questioning himself about what may be "perhaps too much anger," but aware that the anger is real, nurtured by years of living on the edge of a white midwestern community that still knows little about its Mesquaki neighbors and generally avoids the dirt road through the Settlement.
In Young Bear's poetry there is a sense of the mystery of life as it still exists, of the spiritual powers that continue to guide, to thwart, and to inspire.
Vizenor's emphasis on bear transformation is explained by that animal's role as the renewer of Ojibwe life in their mide ceremony.
oncampus.richmond.edu /faculty/ASAIL/SAIL2/52.html   (15876 words)

  
 Ray A Young Bear Interview
Ray Young Bear: Well, I guess first and foremost, and this is going back to how I present myself in a university or elementary classroom setting: I tell them that there are a lot of differences within our cultures.
Young Bear: We are perhaps one of the few tribes in the United States who have actually purchased their land as opposed to having the government allot the land for us.
Young Bear: My grandmother, no ko me sa, would be the first.
www.hanksville.org /storytellers/youngbear/DesMoines.html   (1628 words)

  
 Poetry: LitLinks
This site, developed with Young Bear’s assistance, includes a thorough biography and bibliography, contact information, and the text of numerous poems by this Native American poet.
Ray A. Young Bear was born in 1950 in the Mesquakie Tribal Settlement near Tama, Iowa, where he grew up.
Young Bear and his wife co-founded the Woodland Song and Dance Troupe of Arts Midwest in 1983.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/bears.htm   (177 words)

  
 Alibris: Ray A Young Bear
by Young Bear, Ray A. A candid, poetic account of childhood and young manhood through the eyes of a Native American, this vivid narrative is destined to become a central moral text for our time.
Ray Young Bear recreates his life within the fifties, sixties, and seventies circumstances of a familiar American history of racism, Vietnam, drugs, the Doors, and Castaneda's...
In this collection of long poems, where ancestors cross with present-day characters, Young Bear uses his alter ego Edgar Bearchild (fans of Young Bear will remember him from previous work) to navigate through the past and present of Native America.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Ray_A_Young_Bear   (258 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Rock Island Hiking Club: Books: Ray A. Young Bear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Young Bear's elegiac POETRY contains several meanings communal, historical, sacred that taken together depict the consciousness of tribal peoples in modern society.
For instance, one of the poems tells the story of a father and grandfather confronted with isolation in the "tribal homeland" upon returning from World War I battlefields as "decorated heroes." "Self-assessment" centers around the burden of "centuries of misery." Daring and thoughtful, this collection is recommended for all libraries.
The narrator in this latest collection of poems by Ray Young Bear is alter ego and spiritual seeker Edgar Bearchild, who balances the hapless polarities of life in the Black Eagle Child Settlement with wry humor, a powerful intelligence, and the occasional designer drug.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0877457719?v=glance   (569 words)

  
 AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE, T-Y
A Native American author of Sauk and Mesquakie descent, Ray A. Young Bear was born in Marshalltown, Iowa in 1950.
Young Bear remains successful with his primitivist style, making his writing seem timeless.
Ray Young Bear is also founder of the Woodland Song and Dance Troupe of Arts Midwest.
www.uwm.edu /Library/special/exhibits/nativelt/ty.htm   (527 words)

  
 Young Bear selected to Humanities Iowa program - - The Times Republican   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Young Bear, secretary of the Meskwaki Tribal Council, learned of the appointment by Governor Tom Vilsack's office Sept. 24.
Young Bear joins a state-wide organization serving more than 70,000 Iowans with humanities programming and projects totaling more than $1.5 million.
Young Bear's poetry has been published in four volumes, countless anthologies and journals.
www.timesrepublican.com /central/story/1010202004_cen2central.asp   (267 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Remnants of the First Earth: Books: Ray A. Young Bear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ray A. Young Bear first introduced his fictional alter ego Edgar Bearchild in Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives.
Narrated by the poetic and perceptive Edgar Principal Bear, alter ego of author Young Bear, this impressive first novel relates the struggles of the Native Americans living in the Black Eagle Child Settlement in Iowa.
Young Bear, Ray: Remnants of the First Earth.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802115810?v=glance   (835 words)

  
 World Literature Today: Ray A. Young Bear: The Rock Island Hiking Club.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ray A. Young Bear: The Rock Island Hiking Club.
RAY YOUNG BEAR IS a significant figure among the present generation of American Indian poets, and The Rock Island Hiking Club must therefore be taken seriously as a further step in a distinguished career.
The best of its poems are well worth careful examination: for example, "The Reptile Decree from Paris," which traces the downfall of the Meskwakis to a French king's eighteenth-century order to exterminate them; a couple of poems about two Black Eagle Child veterans of...
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:86170715&refid=ink_tptd_mag   (217 words)

  
 Author Youngbear's USD Visit Postponed Until Oct. 22-23 (10/15/97)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
VERMILLION - Author Ray Young Bear's visit to the University of South Dakota, originally scheduled Oct. 15-16, has been postponed until Oct. 22-23.
Young Bear, a Meskwaki from Tama, Iowa, will present traditional Meskwaki singing at 2 p.m.
At 4 p.m., Young Bear will give a poetry reading and discussion of his works, and at 8 p.m., he will read from his novel, Remnants of the First Earth, in Old Main's Farber Hall.
www.usd.edu /urelations/news/archives/1997/October/october19.html   (233 words)

  
 Broken Ground Texts
In doing so, I tried to listen both to the sense of the words and to their sound.
Ray Young Bear's watery snow and ice (movement 1) suggest a primeval landscape from which all else emerges.
The undulating lake and cool quiet springs of Young Bear's ice-glazed landscape suggested a certain kind of music; the galloping horses of Carey's holy ground suggested another; and the driving underground energy of Smith's rhizomes still a third.
web.grinnell.edu /individuals/chenet/bg_notes.html   (1078 words)

  
 Final Thursday Reading Series
Then it's onto our featured reader, Ray A. Young Bear, memoirist and author of four volumes of poetry including his most recent collection, The Rock Island Hiking Club (U of Iowa Press).
Ray will also be giving a lecture earlier in the day on the UNI campus.
To read some of Ray's works, read below and click to follow links from Ray's website at http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/youngbear/.
www.geocities.com /finalthursday/ray.html   (292 words)

  
 Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives:Young Bear, Ray A.:087745356X:eCampus.com
A consummate storyteller and writer in both Mesquakie and English, Ray A. Young Bear is a noted poet whose skills are evident in these intricate, finely woven stories that balance encounters and experiences with religion, myths, dreams, poverty, and injustice with the love and support offered by family and friends.
In Black Eagle Child Young Bear recreates his life within the fifties, sixties, and seventies circumstances of a familiar American history of racism, Vietnam, drugs, the Doors, and Castaneda's cults.
But always central to these honest, imaginative vignettes are Young Bear's exits from and returns to his home on Iowa's Mesquakie Settlement, the lands his great-great-grandfather, Ma mwi wa ni ke, helped obtain on behalf of the tribe in 1856.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=087745356X   (264 words)

  
 Author Ray Young Bear to Give Readings at USD Oct. 15-16 (9/22/97)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
VERMILLION - Author Ray Young Bear, a noted novelist and poet, will give readings and a traditional singing at the University of South Dakota Oct. 15-16.
At 4 p.m., Young Bear will give a poetry reading and discussion of his works, with a potluck supper to follow at 6 p.m.
On Thursday, Oct. 16, Young Bear will host a creative writing workshop from 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
www.usd.edu /urelations/news/archives/1997/September/september25.html   (250 words)

  
 [Young Bear, Ray A.] Modern American Poetry: Ray A. Young Bear (1950- )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Metadata: [Young Bear, Ray A.] Modern American Poetry: Ray A. Young Bear (1950-)
Ray A. Young Bear; 1950- ; American; poetry; poet; author; 20th century; literature
This page offers general information on the American poet Ray A. Young Bear.
www.anglistikguide.de /cgi-bin/ssgfi/anzeige.pl?db=lit&nr=001486&ew=SSGFI   (105 words)

  
 Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Native American Periodicals, T-Z
With contributions by Joseph Bruchac, Gloria Bird, Gerald Vizenor, Jim Barnes, Ralph Salisbury, Lance Henson, Maurice Kenny, Barney Bush, Ray A. Young Bear, Louis Littlecoon Oliver, and others.
Three issues of this Polish periodical devoted to native themes and including work by Joseph Bruchac, Ray A. Young Bear, Joy Harjo, and others.
An issue guest-edited by James Ruppert, with contributions by Joseph Bruchac, Gerald Vizenor, Maurice Kenny, Ray Young Bear and others.
www.lopezbooks.com /nap/nap-06.html   (1034 words)

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