Kimberly Roppolo
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Kimberly Roppolo, of Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek descent, is Assistant Professor of Native Studies at the University of Lethbridge and the National Director of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. She completed her Ph.D. at Baylor University in May 2002. She is a published poet and author and won The Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Awards for Prose 2004 for Back to the Blanket: Reading, Writing, and Resistance for American Indian Literary Critics, her dissertation revised as a book-length critical work. In 2005, she and the other members of the Blood Rez Playz were honored to participate in a playwrighting workshop with famed Cree playwright, Tomson Highway. Since that time, the Blood Rez Playz have written and have had public readings and performances of two plays and have others in progress. She is currently working on a biography of her Cheyenne grandfather, Eugene Blackbear, Sr., the oldest living Tsis-tsis-tas Sun Dance Priest, as well as finishing up a volume of poetry, A War You Carry in Your Pocket, dedicated to her brother PFC Jacob Wruck, who served as a medic in Iraq and who is still on active duty with the US military. Kimberly resides in Lethbridge, Alberta, with her husband, Randall. She is the proud mother of Cody, Rachel, and Marley.
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[edit] Awards
Wordcraft Circle Storyteller Award for Performance of the Year, 2005-2006, for The Fall, presented at the Family Violence Conference sponsored by Blood and Piikani Reserves at the Lethbridge Lodge, in Lethbridge, Alberta, on October 12, 2005. With Blood Rez Playz (Carl Big Head, Sandra Lamouche, Kimberly Roppolo, Andrea Fox, and Gordon Fox) and Blood Rez Productions (Ramona Big Head).
Native Writers Circle of the Americas—First Books Award for Prose 2004—for Back to the Blanket: Reading, Writing, and Resistance for American Indian Literary Critics (Dissertation revised as a book-length critical work).
Native Writers Circle of the Americas— First Book Award for Prose 2004—for Back to the Blanket: Reading, Writing, and Resistance for American Indian Literary Critics (Dissertation revised as a book-length critical work).
Wordcraft Circle Academic Research Paper of the Year, 2000
Christine Fall Teaching Award, 1999-2000 AY, Baylor University Department of English
[edit] Writing Available Online
"A Song to Tell Robert Bly How We Do This in My Language"
[edit] Books
Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective. With Janice Acoose, Lisa Brooks, Tol Foster, LeAnne Howe, Daniel Heath Justice, Phillip Carroll Morgan, Cheryl Suzack, Chris Teuton, Sean Teuton, Craig Womack, and Robert Warrior. Eds. Craig Womack, Daniel Heath Justice, and Chris Teuton. Scheduled for publication by U of Oklahoma P.
[edit] Edited Volumes
Alfred Young Man. You Are In Indian Country Now: A Native Perspective on Native Art – Politics. Ph. D. Dissertation revised as a book-length critical work ("The Socialization and Art-Politics of Native Art." Rutgers University, 1997). Scheduled for publication with Banff Press. Banff, Alberta.
[edit] Creative Writing
A War You Carry in Your Pocket. Book-length poetry manuscript.
“Selections from A War You Carry in Your Pocket.” Scheduled for publication in editor MariJo Moore’s Wild in Our Breast for Centuries: Women and the Returning Realities of War. Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, CO. Spring 2008.
Fabulous. Play in progress. Written with Mark Anderson, Rodney Big Bull, Collette Big Swallow, Marcia Black Water, Tisha Bromley-Wadsworth, Laverne First Rider, Cody Hall, Christopher Hibbard, Sandra Lamouche, Denae Richards, Nicole Tailfeathers, and Irene Young Pine.
The Fall. Play. Written with Carl Big Head, Sandra Lamouche, Andrea Fox, and Gordon Fox.
Crazy. Play. Written with Carl Big Head, Sandra Lamouche, Andrea Fox, Gordon Fox, and Chris Scout.
Story-Child. (Play).
“Morning Star Song.” Poem and photograph. Scheduled for publication in an anthology on Simon Ortiz’s work edited by Susan Brill de Ramirez and Evelina Zuni Lucero, University of Arizona Press.
“Morning Star Song II.” Poem and photograph. Scheduled for publication in an anthology on Simon Ortiz’s work edited by Susan Brill de Ramirez and Evelina Zuni Lucero, University of Arizona Press.
“A Song to Tell Robert Bly How We Do This In My Language.” Poem. Scheduled for publication in The People Who Stayed Behind: Southeastern Indian Writing After the Removal. Eds. Geary Hobson and Janet McAdams.
“Song for All of My Relatives South of the Red River.” Poem. Scheduled for publication in The People Who Stayed Behind: Southeastern Indian Writing After the Removal. Eds. Geary Hobson and Janet McAdams.
“Water Maiden.” Poem. Scheduled for publication in The People Who Stayed Behind: Southeastern Indian Writing After the Removal. Eds. Geary Hobson and Janet McAdams.
“Texas Traces.” Poem. Scheduled for publication in The People Who Stayed Behind: Southeastern Indian Writing After the Removal. Eds. Geary Hobson and Janet McAdams.
“Unega.” Poem. Scheduled for publication in The People Who Stayed Behind: Southeastern Indian Writing After the Removal. Eds. Geary Hobson and Janet McAdams.
“Una Limpia por Chelleye.” Poem. Scheduled for publication in The People Who Stayed Behind: Southeastern Indian Writing After the Removal. Eds. Geary Hobson and Janet McAdams.
“Morning Star Song.” Poem and photograph. Studies in American Indian Literatures 16.4 (2004) 89-92.
“Diaspora.” Poem. CCTE Studies 68 (2003): 60-62.
“Song for the Hunter.” Poem. Red Ink 11.1 (2002): 52.
“Carnival Pictures.” Poem. Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 23.2 (2002): 92-93.
“Traveling Song for Joyce.” Poem. Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 23.2 (2002): 94.
“The Real Americana.” Poem. This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation. Eds. Gloria E. Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating. New York: Routledge, 2002. 155-58.
“Selections from Breeds and Outlaws.” Children of the Dragonfly. Ed. Robert Bensen. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2001. 191-95.
“Song for a Grandaughter of a Chata Chief whose Likeness Hangs in the Smithsonian.” Poem. Native Realities 1.3 (2001).
“Song for My Favorite Cheyenne.” Poem. Native Realities 1.1 (Spring 2001).
“A Song to Tell Robert Bly How We Do This In My Language.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 12.3 (2000): 84.
Gi-ga-ge. Poetry Chapbook. Signed and numbered. 100 copies, with #1 and descriptive list of copies to be archived at UALR, Wordcraft Collection. September 22, 2000.
[edit] Articles
“Native American Paradigm2: Quantum Mechanics, Blackfoot Warriors, and Cheyenne Medicine Men.” With Eugene Blackbear, Sr. and William Wadsworth. Upcoming in Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts and Quantum Psychics. Ed. MariJo Moore.
“The ‘Great Father’s’ Tongue is Still ‘Forked’: Bush’s Lies, Native Sovereignty, and the Impact on Future Generations.” Upcoming in Wicaza Sa Review 24 (2009). Guest eds. D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark and Larry Emerson.
“Vision, Voice, and Intertribal Metanarrative: The Amerindian Visual-Rhetorical Tradition and Leslie Silko’s Almanac of the Dead.” American Indian Quarterly 31.4 (2007): 534-558.
“Getting Ourselves Back to the Garden: Death, Life, and Rebirth in Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes.” Reading Leslie Marmon Silko: Critical Perspectives through Gardens in the Dunes. Ed. Laura Coltelli. Pisa, Italy, Pisa University P., 2007: 74-89. Soon to be available in the US through the University of Nebraska P.
“Native American Education vs. Indian Learning— Still Battling Pratt After All These Years.” With Chelleye Crow. Studies in American Indian Literatures 19.1 (2007): 3-31.
“Washita, a Slaughter, not a Battle: A Cheyenne Survivor’s Perspective.” Translated with Eugene Blackbear, Sr. Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust. Ed. MariJo Moore. Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2006: 170-181.
“Seeking Atzlan: Intersections Between American Indian and Chicana/o Literatures.” CCTE Studies LXIX (2004): 17-25.
“An Incipient Study of the Indian Half of the Dialogic: Native Rhetoric and Occom’s Use of Indirect Discourse.” Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities & Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Two Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums. Eds. Lucretia Scoufos, Mark Spencer, and Chad Litton. Durant: Southeastern OK State UP, 2003-2004: 41-47.
“Symbolic Racism, History, and Reality: The Real Problem with Indian Mascots.” Genocide of the Mind: An Anthology of Urban Indians. Ed. MariJo Moore. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nations Books. 2003. 187-198.
“Sacred Sexuality in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony.” Red Ink 11.1 (2002) 70-77.
With Geary Hobson, P.J. Hafen, Jeane Brenig, Carol Miller, Cliff Trafzer, Louis Owens, and Vine Deloria, Jr. “Wisdom of the Elders.” Paradoxa 15 (2001): 275-87.
“Towards a Towards a Tribal-Centered Reading of Native Literature: Using Indigenous Rhetoric(s) Instead of Literary Analysis.” Paradoxa 15 (2001): 263-74.
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