James Welch

Writer, Author

1940 – 2003

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Who was James Welch?

James Welch, who grew up within the Blackfeet and A'aninin cultures of his parents, was an award-winning Native American novelist and poet, considered a founding author of the Native American Renaissance. His novel Fools Crow received several national literary awards.

In 1997 Welch received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.

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Born
Nov 18, 1940
Browning
Ethnicity
  • Blackfoot Confederacy
  • Piegan Blackfeet
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Montana
  • University of Minnesota
Lived in
  • Montana
Died
Aug 4, 2003
Missoula

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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