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Name

Gerald Vizenor

Alternate name:

Gerald Robert Vizenor

Heritage

Anishinaabe

Danish American

Gender

male

Dates

Lifespan

1934-

Date Note

birth date October 22, 1934

Birthplace

Minneapolis

Minnesota

Specialty / Medium

writing

literature

fiction

historical fiction

essay

poetry

haiku

teaching

External Remarks

Artist's file in Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum.

"Gerald Robert Vizenor (born 1934) is an Anishinaabe writer and scholar, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. Vizenor also taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Director of Native American Studies. With more than 30 books published, Vizenor is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico"--Wikipedia entry for Gerald Vizenor (viewed August 10, 2016) at URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerald_Vizenor&oldid=722189445

Artist’s physical folder is filed alphabetically in the Native American Artists Resource Collection under the following name:

Vizenor, Gerald

Publications

Found 40 record(s)

Citation	Pages	Publication Date	Artist Citation Notes	Website
Bernardin, Susan. "[Book review of] 'Native Tributes: Historical Novel'. By Gerald Vizenor. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2018. 102 Pages. $14.95 Paper". American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2 (2019). 2019.	167-169	2019
Blaeser, Kimberly M. "Vizenor and the Power of Transitive Memories". In: Däwes, Birgit and Alexandra Hauke (editors). Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity: the Gerald Vizenor Continuum. New York, New York: Routledge. 2017.	75-89	2017	Host volume includes bibliographical references and index.
Blaeser, Kimberly, Jane Haladay, Gordon Henry Jr., Molly McGlennen, Jesse Peters, and in absentia, Gerald Vizenor. "An Exposition of Virtual Exchanges". In: Waegner, Cathy Covell. Mediating Indianness. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. 2015.	281-308	2015	Includes bibliographical references
Carden, Mary Paniccia. "'Verbs That Will Story Our Bodies into Somthing More Than Missing': Poetry, Presencing and #MMIWG2S". American Indian Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 3 (summer 2022). 2022.	155-188	2022	Draws on the work of Gerald Vizenor and Leanne Simpson; includes bibliographical references.
Carlson, David J. Imagining Sovereignty: Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. 2016.	9-11, 34, 42+	2016	Consult page 233 in index under "Vizenor, Gerald" for additional pages. \| Includes bibliographical references and index. Discusses Native scholars such as Russel Barsh, Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, D’Arcy McNickle, and Vine Deloria, and in the work of more expressly literary American Indian writers such as Craig Womack, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Gerald Vizenor, and Francisco Patencio.
Colonnese, Tom and Louis Owens. American Indian Novelists: an Annotated Critical Bibliography. New York, New York: Garland Publishing. 1985.	125-130	1985	Includes novelists Paula Gunn Allen, Denton R. Bedford, Dallas Chief Eagle, Janet Campbell Hale, Jamake Highwater, Hum-Ishu-Ma (Mourning Dove), D'Arcy McNickle, Markoosie, John Joseph Mathews, N. Scott Momaday, Nasnaga (Roger Russell), John Milton Oskison, Chief George Pierre, Simon Pokagon, Leslie Marmon Silko, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Hyemeyohsts Storm, John William Tebbel, James Tucker, Gerald Vizenor, and James Welch.
Däwes, Birgit and Alexandra Hauke (editors). Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity: the Gerald Vizenor Continuum. New York, New York: Routledge. 2017.		2017	Contributors include Kimberly M. Blaeser, Chris LaLonde, and Kathryn W. Shanley.
Deyhle, Donna. Reflections in Place: Connected Lives of Navajo Women. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press. 2009.	ix-x, xii-xviii, xix-xxii	2009	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fur, Gunlög. Painting Culture, Painting Nature: Stephen Mopope, Oscar Jacobson, and the Development of Indian Art in Oklahoma. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. 2019.	54, 125	2019	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gercken, Becca. "Raised Stakes: Writing on/and the New Game of Chance". In: Gercken, Becca and Julie Pelletier (editors). Gambling on Authenticity: Gaming, the Noble Savage, and the Not-So-New Indian. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. 2018.	1-21	2018	Discusses authors Jim Northrup, Louis Owens, Stephen Graham Jones, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich; includes bibliographical references.
Gladstone, Joseph. "All My Relations: an Inquiry into a Spirit of a Native American Philosophy of Business". American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 2 (spring 2018). 2018.	193+	2018	Includes abstract and bibliographical references; sections of article devoted to Gerald Vizenor, Vine Deloria Jr., and Viola F. Cordova.
Hamilton, Geoff. "Continents of Liberty: Emerson and Gerald Vizenor's 'Chair of Tears'". Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 2 (summer 2017). 2017.	71-91	2017	Includes bibliographical references.
Higgins, Shawn M. "[Book review of] Gerald Vizenor. 'Treaty Shirts: October 2034--a Familiar Treatise on the White Earth Nation'. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2016. 148 pp. Cloth, $24.95". American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 2 (spring 2018). 2018.	271-273	2018
Hoxie, Frederick E. (editor). The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. 2016.	137, 173, 579	2016	Includes essays by various authors, bibliographical references, and index.
Kusserow, Karl and Alan C. Braddock. Nature's nation: American Art and Environment. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum. 2018.	275-277	2018	Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment" held Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, October 13, 2018-January 6, 2019; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, February 2, 2019-May 5, 2019; and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, May 25, 2019-September 9, 2019. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lanteri, Michelle J. "[Book review] 'Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube', Grant Arnold, Editor, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2018". First American Art Magazine, issue no. 22 (spring 2019). 2019.	88-89	2019	Catalog Native contributors and individuals cited in book review include Layli Long Soldier, Gerald Vizenor, and David Garneau.
Lee, A. Robert. "Flight Times in Gerald Vizenor's 'Blue Ravens, White Earth Mediating History'". In: Waegner, Cathy Covell. Mediating Indianness. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. 2015.	91-94	2015
Madsen, Deborah L. "[Book review of] Gerald Vizenor. 'Father Meme: a Novel'. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. 128 pp. Cloth, $21.95". American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 1 (winter 2010). 2010.	113-115	2010
Matsunaga, Kyoko. "From Apocalypse to Nuclear survivance: the Transpacific Nuclear Narrative in Gerald Vizenor's 'Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57'". In: Carson, Benjamin D. (editor). Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance: Ideological Encounters in the Literature of Native North America. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2009.	110-128	2009	Includes bibliographical references.
Owens, Louis. Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. 1992.		1992	Contents: Other destinies, other plots : an introduction to Indian novels -- Origin mists : John Rollin Ridge's masquerade and Mourning Dove's mixedbloods -- Maps of the mind : John Joseph Mathews and D'Arcy McNickle -- Acts of imagination : the novels of N. Scott Momaday -- Earthboy's return : James Welch's acts of recovery -- "The very essence of our lives" : Leslie Silko's webs of identity -- Erdrich and Dorris's mixedbloods and multiple narratives -- Ecstatic strategies : Gerald Vizenor's trickster narratives. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Parisian, Samuel Victor. From Indian to Postindian: Survivance Tales of Native American Representation in Contemporary Art. Ann Arbor, Michigan: ProQuest. 2019.		2019	Master's thesis submitted in 2012 on contemporary art, Sotheby's Institute of Art. Print reproduction made 2019 by ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Discusses artists Fritz Scholder, Carl Beam, James Luna and numerous others, Jimmie Durham, Marie Watt, Leonard Peltier, and Gerald Vizenor. Includes bibliographcal references.
Raheja, Michelle Hermann. "[Review of] Gerald Vizenor and A. Robert Lee. 'Postindian Conversations'. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. 189 pp. Cloth $25.00". American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 2 (spring 2001). 2001.	324-325	2001	Book review.
Rainwater, Catherine (editor). Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller: New Perspectives. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. 2016.	59-62	2016	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Robertson, Carmen L. Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau: Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: University of Manitoba Press. 2016.	6-7, 168, 179	2016	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Russo, Bernadette V. "Deconstructing the Master's House with His Own Tools: Code-Switching and Double-Voiced Discourse as Agency in Gerald Vizenor's 'Heir of Columbus'". Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4 (winter 2017). 2018.	58-75	2018	Includes bibliographical references.
Shanley, Kathryn W. "Universal Peculiarities in Gerald Vizenor's 'The Heirs of Columbus' and 'Shrouds of White Earth'". In: Däwes, Birgit and Alexandra Hauke (editors). Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity: the Gerald Vizenor Continuum. New York, New York: Routledge. 2017.	34-46	2017	Host volume includes biographical sketch on Gerald Vizenor on page 160. \| Includes bibliographical references; host volume include index.
Simpson, Leanne. Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: ARP Books. 2015.	43, 73, 88, 101, 104	2015	Includes bibliographical references and index; fifth printing, February 2015.
Smith, Thomas R. "Indian Graves on Medeline Island for Gerald Vizenor". In: Fleck, Richard F. (editor). Critical Perspectives on Native American Fiction. Pueblo, Colorado: Passeggiata Press. 1997.	ix	1997
Stewart, Paul. "Vizenor and Beckett: Postmodern Identifications". Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 1 (2015). 2015.		2015	Online periodical article; includes bibliographical references.	View
Vizenor, Gerald. "Crossbloods". In: Peters, Kurt and Terry Straus (editors). Visions and Voices: American Indian Activism and the Civil Rights Movement. Chicago, Illinois: Albatross Press. 2009.	445-461	2009
Vizenor, Gerald. "Envoy: Response to 'Crow Commons'". In: Waegner, Cathy Covell. Mediating Indianness. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. 2015.	309-311	2015	Poem. Includes bibliographical reference.
Vizenor, Gerald. "George Morrison, Anishinaabe Expressionist Artist". American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3 and 4 (summer/fall 2006). 2006.	646-660	2006	Biographical sketch on Gerald Vizenor found in the "Contributors" section of journal issue on p. 664. \| Includes bibliographical references.
Vizenor, Gerald. Native Provenance: the Betrayal of Cultural Creativity. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. 2019.		2019	Includes bibliographical references.
Vizenor, Gerald. Native Tributes: Historical Novel. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. 2018.		2018	Cover illustration in color is the painting "Crow Magic" by Rick Bartow.
Vizenor, Gerald. The Heirs of Columbus. New York, New York: Quality Paperback Book Club. 1996.		1996	Originally published in 1991. A "Fire Keepers" publication.
Vizenor, Gerald. Treaty Shirts: October 2034 - a Familiar Treatise on the White Earth Nation. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. 2016.		2016	Illustration on book jacket cover is Rick Bartow's 2015 acrylic on canvas "Voices II".
Vizenor, Gerald (editor). Native American Literature: a Brief Introduction and Anthology. New York, New York: HarperCollins College Publishers. 1995.		1995	Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-365) and index; volume in the HarperCollins Literary Mosaic Series.
Wieser, Kimberly G. Back to the Blanket: Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. 2017.	91-92, 157	2017	Volume 70 in the "American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series"; includes bibliographical references (pages 197-233) and index.
Wikipedia contributors. "Gerald Vizenor". In: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (host URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/) at source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Vizenor. 2016.		2016	Current entry for Gerald Vizenor on Wikipedia (viewed June 8, 2018)	View
Willeto, Paul. "[Book review of] 'Native Provenance: the Betrayal of Cultural Creativity', by Gerald Vizenor, University of Nebraska Press (2019), 197 Pages". Tribal College Journal, vol. 32, no. 2 (winter 2020). 2020.	51	2020

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