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Nora Marks Dauenhauer (1927-2017) was a Tlingit author, poet, and scholar. She was a member of the Lukaax̱.ádi (Sockeye Salmon) clan and the Shaka Hít (Canoe Prow House) and Tlingit was her first language. She studied anthropology at Alaska Methodist (now Pacific) University in Anchorage. She authored numerous collections of poetry and prose and served as writer laureate of Alaska from 2012-2014. Richard Dauenhauer (1942-2014) was a poet, linguist, and scholar of Tlingit culture. He earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin, with a dissertation titled Text and Context of Tlingit Oral Tradition. He was a professor of literature at Alaska Methodist University and later of Alaska Native languages and culture at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. From 1981 to 1988, he was the poet laureate of Alaska.

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