Native American Authors

Michael Kabotie (Lomawywesa) , 1941-

Hopi

Michael Kabotie is a painter and author. Kabotie shows how art relates to and reflect on the personal and artistic struggles of Native artists and their efforts to produce contemporary work while continuing to maintain their people traditions.

Online resources by or about Michael Kabotie:

Bahti Indian Arts Imports A Show Of Native American Art From Alaska
Author: Margaret Regan
Type: authorbio
Description: Text of a 2/10/00 Tucson Weekly article about a showing of Kabotie’s art at a gallery in Tuscon (along with the work of David Boxley and Evelyn Vanderhoop)
URL: http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/2000-02-10/review2.html

Hopi Essence: Self Portrait and Poem
Author: UNL Digital Commons
Type: etext
Description: Poetry by Michael Kabotie about the Hopi people and heritage. Published in Hopi Nation: Essays on Indigenous Art, Culture, History, and Law, edited by Edna Glenn, John R. Wunder, Willard Hughes Rollings, and C. L. Martin (Lincoln, NE: UNL Digital Commons, 2008).
URL: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/hopination/18/

Hopi Mesas and Migrations: Land and People
Author: UNL Digital Commons
Type: etext
Description: Journal article about the migration of the Hopi people in Arizona. Published in Hopi Nation: Essays on Indigenous Art, Culture, History, and Law, edited by Edna Glenn, John R. Wunder, Willard Hughes Rollings, and C. L. Martin (Lincoln, NE: UNL Digital Commons, 2008).
URL: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/hopination/6/

I Have Come
Author: Lomawywesa (Michael Kabotie)
Type: etext
Description: Text of Kabotie’s poem “I Have Come” from Sun Tracks Five (1979).
URL: http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/southcorner/hopi_ihavecome.html

Michael Kabotie’s web page
Author: Native Art Network
Type: authorbio
Description: Contains a short bio of the artist, and several images of his artworks.
URL: http://www.nativeart.net/mikekabotie/

Books by Michael Kabotie:

Kabotie, Michael. Hopi Essence: Self-Portrait and Poem
Lincoln, NE : UNL Digital Commons, 2008.
Genre: Poetry
Language: English
Audience: All Ages

Kabotie, Michael. Hopi Mesas and Migrations: Land and People
Lincoln, NE : UNL Digital Commons, 2008.
Genre: Journal Article
Language: English
Audience: All Ages

Kabotie, Michael. Migration tears: poems about transitions
Los Angeles, Calif : American Indian Studies Center, 1987.
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0935626328

Kabotie, Michael. Two Hopi song poets of Shungopavi
1978.
Genre: Poetry
Language: Hopi and English
Audience: All Ages

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