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Ray Young Bear
(Ka ka to)
, 1950-

Mesquakie

Fox

Ray Anthony Young Bear was born in Iowa in 1950 and grew up at the Mesquakie Tribal Settlement. His poetry has been influenced by his maternal grandmother Ada Kapayou Old Bear and his wife, Stella L. Young Bear. Young Bear attended Claremont College in California, as well as Grinnell, University of Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa. He has been a visiting faculty member at Eastern Washington University and the University of Iowa. Young Bear and his wife co-founded the Woodland Song and Dance Troupe of Arts Midwest in 1983. Young Bear’s group has performed traditional Mesquakie music in this country and the Netherlands.

 


Online resources by or about Ray Young Bear:



Modern American Poetry: Ray A. Young Bear
Author: Robert Dale Parker
Type: authorbio
Description: Site contains the texts of an number of essays about and interviews with Ray A. Young Bear.

URL: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/youngbear/youngbear.htm


Ray A. Young Bear
Author: Ray A. Young Bear, Karen Strom
Type: authorbio
Description: Ray Young Bear biography and bibliography. Includes a photo of the author.

URL: http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/youngbear/

Books by Ray Young Bear:


Young Bear, Ray. Black Eagle Child : the Facepaint narratives
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1992.
Genre: Biography
ISBN: 0877453578 (pbk.)


Young Bear, Ray. The invisible musician
Duluth, Minn. : Holy Cow! Press, 1990.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0930100336 (pbk.)


Young Bear, Ray. Remnants of the First Earth
Grove/Atlantic, 1997.
Genre: Fiction
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0802115810


Young Bear, Ray. The Rock Island Hiking Club
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2001.
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0877457700


Young Bear, Ray. Winter of the salamander : the keeper of importance
San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1980.
ISBN: 0064527514 (pbk.)



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