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Chrystos (born 7 November, 1946) is a Menominee poet and rights activist. Prior to being published, she worked as a home caretaker, and an activist for Turtle Mountain Band of Chipewa, Norma Jean Croy (involved in a firefight with police), and Leonard Peltier.

Life and career

Born in San Francisco, United States, Chrystos is a Lesbian- and Two-Spirit-identified writer who focuses on themes revolving around the violence that adjoins everyday life in many urban areas.^[1] She also tries to incorporate an awareness of universal currents in her works, introducing a diverse mixture of characters and ideas. Her first published work, Not Vanishing, concentrates on a Native American woman and the environment she returns to after work, a life shielded from mainstream cultural understanding.

Bibliography

• This Bridge Called My Back (anthology) Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1981, contributor
• Not Vanishing, Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1988, ISBN 0-8897-4015-1
• Dream On, Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1991
• In Her I Am, Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1993
• Fugitive Colors, Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1995, ISBN 1-8808-3411-1
• Fire Power, Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1995, ISBN 0-889-7404-7X
• Some Poems By People I Like (anthology of 5 poets) Toronto: sandraslittlebookshop, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9739540-1-2

See also

• List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
• Native American Studies

References

External links

• Chrystos from Voices in the Gaps