Biography of luci tapahonso songs

She is the first poet laureate of the Navajo Nation , succeeded by Laura Tohe. English was not spoken on the family farm, and Tapahonso learned it as a second tongue after her native Navajo. She embarked on a career as a journalist and investigative reporter before beginning her studies at the University of New Mexico in She initially intended to study journalism at New Mexico, but Silko convinced her to change her major to creative writing.

She earned her bachelor's degree in Silko helped Tapahonso publish her first story, "The Snake Man", in She also frequently uses her family and childhood friends in her poetry. Several more collections followed, as well as many individual poems which have been anthologized in others' collections, activist literature, and writing in magazines.

Tapahonso's writing, unlike many Native American writers , is a translation from original work she has created in her tribe's native tongue. Her Navajo work includes original songs and chants designed for performance. For this reason, her English work is strongly rhythmic and uses syntactical structures unusual in English language poetry.

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