Tlingit writer, poet, and former Alaska State Writer Laureate
Ernestine Saankaláxt Hayes
Ernestine Hayes speaking in front of the Alaska State Capitol in July 2019
Born
1945 (age 78–79)
Juneau, Alaska
Occupations
Memoirist
writer
professor
Known for
Author of Blonde Indian and Tao of Raven
Honours
Alaska State Writer Laureate
Ernestine Saankaláxt Hayes (born 1945) is a Tlingit author and an Emerita professor at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, Alaska.[1]She belongs to the Wolf House of the Kaagwaaataan clan of the Eagle side of the Tlingit Nation.[2] Hayes is a memoirist, essayist, and poet.[3] She served as Alaska State Writer Laureate 2017–2018.[4]
Early life
Hayes was born in Juneau at the end of the Second World War when Alaska was still a territory. For the first several years of her life, Hayes lived with her grandmother in the Juneau Indian Village while her mother was in and out of hospitals for tuberculosis. At the age of fifteen, Hayes and her mother moved to California, where Hayes lived for twenty-five years.[5]
^"University of Alaska Southeast". Retrieved April 11, 2021.
^"The Artist: Ernestine Hayes". KTOO. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
^"Ernestine Hayes on Native American Authors". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
^"Ernestine Hayes named 2017 State Writer Laureate". Anchorage Daily News. December 23, 2016. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
^Gercken, Becca (2009). "Review of Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir". Studies in American Indian Literatures. 21 (2, 2009): 78–81. doi:10.1353/ail.0.0073. S2CID 161465125 – via Project MUSE.
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