Native American Authors

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, 1965-

Ojibwe

Chippewa

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm was born in 1965 in Toronto. A Band member of the the Chippewa of Nawash, on the Cape Croker Reserve, Akiwenzie-Damm received an M.A. in English literature from the University of Ottawa in 1996. Her first chapbook was published in April 1993. She dedicated her writings to her grandmother O. Irene Akiwenzie. She currently lives in Neyaashiinigmiing (formerly the Cape Croker Reserve).

Online resources by or about Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm:

Daughter of Pele
Author: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Type: etext
Description: Poem by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, from “trout two” (June 1997).

URL: http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/trout/trout2/damm/pele.htm

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Author: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Karen Strom
Type: authorbio
Description: Biographical and bibliographical information about Akiwenzie-Damm.

URL: http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/damm/

Lehua Flower
Author: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Type: etext
Description: Poem by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, from “trout two” (June 1997).

URL: http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/trout/trout2/damm/lehua.htm

Ottawa Art Gallery: Reading with Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Armand Garnet Ruffo
Author: The Ottawa Art Gallery
Type: authorbio
Description: Contains brief biographies of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Armand Garnet Ruffo.

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Rainstorm in Volcano
Author: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Type: etext
Description: Poem by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, from “trout two” (June 1997).

URL: http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/trout/trout2/damm/rain2.htm

Books by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm:

Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri. My heart is a stray bullet
Cape Croker, Ont. : Kegedonce Press, 1993.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0969712006

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