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Minnesota names its first Native American poet laureate

ST. PAUL - Minnesota has made history by naming its first Native American poet laureate: Gwen Nell Westerman, an English professor at Minnesota State University Mankato and citizen of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe in South Dakota.

Westerman's appointment was announced at a Thursday, Sept. 9, news conference at the Minnesota Humanities Center in St. Paul.

Westerman said Thursday that she is honored to take on the role "and as a Dakota woman, to be a presence for healing and understanding and sharing more knowledge and information about our people, all of our people, in the state of Minnesota because we all love this land."

https://www.pinejournal.com/news/government-and-politics/7188362-Minnesota-names-its-first-Native-American-poet-laureate

 

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