Janet Campbell Hale

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For the American educational theorist and educator, see Janet Hale.

Janet Campbell Hale (January 11, 1946 – November 23, 2021)

Pulitzer Prize in 1985), Women on the Run (1999), and Custer Lives in Humboldt County & Other Poems (1978).[3]

Early life

Janet Campbell Hale was born on January 11, 1946, in

Kootenay/Cree mother.[6][7] The family lived on the Coeur D'Alene reservation; while her siblings had been born on the reservation, a brother born the previous winter had only lived a few hours, so to avoid hazardous winter weather, the family temporarily relocated to southern California for Janet's birth and returned to northern Idaho in June 1946.[5]
They lived on the reservation until 1956.

Hale attended high school in Wapato, Washington, before transferring to the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[7]

Early writing

Hale won the Vincent Price Poetry Competition in 1963 and a New York Poetry Day award in 1964.[7] She contributed the poems "Red Eagle" and "Nespelim Man (a song)" to The Whispering Wind: poetry by young American Indians,[8] in 1972.

In 1974, she published The Owl's Song,[9] a book for young adults telling the story of fourteen year old Billy White Hawk, who leaves his alcoholic father and moves from an Idaho reservation to live with his sister in California. He encounters prejudice from his fellow students and finds support from an art teacher and a tribal elder, who explains that for many tribes, the owl is the bringer of death and its song is despair; the title of the book comes from the elder's declaration "There is little left of what once was. The time is coming when even this will be gone, taken away. And we will be no more. The time is coming when the owl's song will be for our race."[10]

Themes

Capture is a major theme in Janet Campbell Hale's writing. The name of the protagonist in the eponymous Jailing of Cecelia Capture is named for capture, but is also both literally and figuratively captured at different points in the narrative. Part of the dynamics of Bloodlines is to invert the white narratives about the capture of white people by Native Americans, into an account of capture of Native peoples by European-descended people.[11] Escape and transformation of capture figure in several of her works.

Teaching

Janet Campbell Hale taught at

University of California at Santa Cruz,[12] and has served as resident writer at University of Oregon and University of Washington.[6]

Death

Hale died from complications associated with

Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
, on November 23, 2021, at the age of 75.

See also
  • List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas

Notes

  1. ^ "Coeur d'Alene Tribe Council Fires". Facebook. November 26, 2021. Retrieved January 16, 2022.
  2. ^ "The Jailing of Cecelia Capture by Janet Campbell Hale". February 23, 1998. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  3. Encyclopedia Britannica
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  4. ISBN 9781587654626
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  5. ^
    OCLC 37397955
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  6. ^ a b c Hale, Janet Campbell; Strom, Karen M. "Janet Campbell Hale". www.hanksville.org. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  7. ^ a b c Bataille, Gretchen (1997). "Janet Hale Campbell". In Roemer, Kenneth M. (ed.). Native American Writers of the United States. Vol. 175. Gale. pp. 109–111. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  8. OCLC 354808.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
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  9. OCLC 922387
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  10. OCLC 37675749
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  11. S2CID 162187408
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  12. The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology. Archived from the original
    on December 6, 2016.

References

  • Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", Collection Building, volume 17/1 (1998), page 4
  • Dennis, Helen M. Native American Literature: Towards a Spatialized Reading. London, Routledge Publ., (2006), pp. 90–103
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