Indigenous performance poet, writer, motivational speaker, and educator
Tanaya Winder is a performance poet, writer, motivational speaker, and educator. She was raised on the Southern Ute reservation in Ignacio, Colorado and is an enrolled member of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe.[1] Her background includes Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Dine, and Black heritages.[2] With fellow Indigenous writer Casandra Lopez, she founded As/Us, an online literary magazine to "showcase the creative literary expressions and scholarly work of both emerging and established women writers from around the world."[3] With Lakota rap artist Frank Waln and other collaborators, she runs Dream Warriors Management, an organization to promote Indigenous artists and support young Native students.[4] In 2015, Winder published her first book of poetry, Words Like Love.
Winder grew up on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in Ignacio, Colorado, and is of Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute heritage.[5] As a teacher, Winder has worked at Stanford and the University of Colorado Boulder's Upward Bound program.[6] In 2010, she won the Orlando Poetry Prize for her poem "The Impermanence of Human Sculptures."[7] In 2013 she appeared on TEDxABQ with a talk called "Igniting Healing." In 2015, Winder co-curated "Sing Our River Red," a traveling exhibit of single earrings to raise awareness of Canada's epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women.[8] The following year, she was named one of the "Native American 40 (Leaders) under 40" by the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development.[9]
^Poets, Academy of American. "About Tanaya Winder | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2022-07-22.
^"Tanaya Winder". First Peoples Fund. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
^"Mission Statement". As/Us: A Space for Women of the World. 5 November 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
^Luger, Chelsea (May 1, 2015). "Dream Warriors, a Scholarship For Native Artists, Launches Today". Indian Country Today. Indian Country Today Media Network. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
^Walker, Tate (2016). "Poet Tanaya Winder leads readers back to love". Native Peoples Magazine (March–April). Retrieved 3 December 2016.
^"Coffee With: Author and Entrepreneur Tanaya Winder". The Well. July 26, 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
^"Words Like Love by Tanaya Winder". ARHO: A Room of Her Own Foundation for Women Writers and Artists. April 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
^Upham, Lailani (March 26, 2015). "Sing Our River Red". Char-Koosta News. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
^"National Center Names 40 Emerging Leaders in Indian Country". Indian Country Today. Indian Country Today Media Network. November 2, 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
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