Beth Brant

Template:Linkless-date Beth E. Brant (indian: Degonwadonti) (* 1941 Melvindale, Michigan, other source say in the Tyendinaga reservation in Ontario) is a canadian Mohawk writer.

Life

Beth Brant is the daughter of a white mother (irish-scots) and an indian father. She grow up at the family of her father, an bay of Quinte Mohawk from Ontario. Already at their childhood she made expirience with rassism, cause the family of her mother declined any link to indians. Most of her life she stayed at the border area of the canadian Ontario und des US-State Michigan.

After her marriage with 17 she got three daughters. After she divorced from her violent and addicted to alcohol husband, she to job to have money for the daily life. She doesn't had a finished school education. In the age of 33 she come out as a lesbian. Since 1981 she start to wrote and issue anthologies of indian literature. In 1989 till 1990 she was a lector at the University of British Columbia and in 1993 at the University of Toronto. She is working temporary as teacher for creative writing and live in Detroit. Brant characterizees herself as an lesbian mother and grand mother, a Taurus, ascendant Scorpio, a dropout and a woman of the working class.

She got 1984 and 1986 the Creative Writing Award of the Michigan Council for the Arts, 1991 the national endowment for the arts and 1992 the Canada Council Award in Creative Writing.

Work

In her narratives, she broaches the issues that link her nationality and her homosexuality, like her experiences with racism and sexism, and takes the white immigrants of America into responsibility.

• Mohawk Trail, 1985, ISBN 0-932379-02-8
• A Gathering of Spirit, anthology of north american indian women, 1988, ISBN 0-932379-55-9
• Food & Spirits, narratives, 1991, ISBN 0-932379-93-1
• Writing as Witness, Essay 1994, ISBN 0-88961-200-5
• I`ll Sing `til the Day I Die, talks with Tyendinaga presbyters, 1995, ISBN 0-9698064-2-6

External links

• Beth Brant from Voices in the Gap