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Paula Gunn Allen

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October 24, 1939

died

May 29, 2008

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Paula Gunn Allen was a Native American poet, literary critic, lesbian activist, and novelist.

Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation. Of mixed Laguna, Sioux, Scottish, and Lebanese-American descent, Allen always identified most closely with the people among whom she spent her childhood and upbringing.

Having obtained a BA and MFA from the University of Oregon, Allen gained her PhD at the University of New Mexico, where she taught and where she began her research into various tribal religions.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 401 ratings · 31 reviews · 25 distinct works

	The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions 3.95 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women 3.95 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook 4.03 avg rating — 38 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Woman Who Owned the Shadows 3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Voice of the Turtle 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat 3.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	OFF THE RESERVATION: Relfections on Boundary-Busting Border-Crossing Loose Cannons 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Song of the Turtle: American Indian Literature 1974-1994 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Life Is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Hozho--Walking in Beauty: Native American Stories of Inspiration, Humor, and Life by Paula Gunn Allen, Mark Robert Waldman, Carolyn Dunn 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001	My rating:

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