{"id":2075,"date":"2013-11-01T18:41:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T18:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2013-11-01T18:41:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T18:41:34","slug":"the-indian-prophet-is-special-collections-featured-book-for-november-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2013\/11\/01\/the-indian-prophet-is-special-collections-featured-book-for-november-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indian Prophet is Special Collections’ Featured Book for November 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the Special Collections featured book for November is\u00a0The Indian Prophet: Bilingual Poems From the Ahtna Athabaskan\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by John E. Smelcer. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Smelcer received his\u00a0Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing\u00a0from\u00a0Binghamton University, where he received the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Research. He is a\u00a0son of an Alaska Native father from the Ahtna Tribe of Alaska. All his life, Dr. John Smelcer was raised in Alaska to know traditional Indian ways and pursued a\u00a0largely subsistence lifestyle.\u00a0He has dedicated his life to preserving his Ahtna heritage, language, traditional Indian knowledge, archaeological sites, and he has taught literature, creative writing, public speaking, and Native Studies for over twenty years. Dr. John Smelcer’s novels, short stories, poems, essays, screenplays\u00a0and articles,\u00a0anchored in Alaskan culture, have been published and translated worldwide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Ahtna People inhabit eight small villages, mostly located along the silty, glacial-fed Copper River, from which the word is derived (‘Atna’ tuu).\u00a0The Ahtna are an\u00a0Athabaskan languages\u00a0speaking tribe of the\u00a0Subarctic Cultural Area, which classifies them as both Athabaskan and\u00a0Subarctic Indians.\u00a0The total population of Ahtna is estimated at around 500.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other books by Dr. John Smelcer in the Bartle Library include: An\u00a0Ahtna Noun Dictionary and Pronunciation Guide<\/em>,\u00a0Alaskan : Stories From the Great Land<\/em>, and\u00a0<\/em>Beautiful words =\u00a0Kasuundze\u2019 kenaege\u2019 : the Complete Ahtna Poems<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Zen Raven<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raven wanted to learn patience.<\/p>\n

So he sat amid stones<\/p>\n

on a mountain<\/p>\n

for a thousand years –<\/p>\n

neither he nor the stones<\/p>\n

saying a word.<\/p>\n

To read more poems from\u00a0The Indian Prophet<\/em>, visit Special Collections located on the second floor of the Glenn Bartle Library (off of the North Reading Room). There is also a copy of this work in the circulating stacks.<\/p>\n

To learn more about Dr. John Smelcer, visit his website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the Special Collections featured book for November is\u00a0The Indian Prophet: Bilingual Poems From the Ahtna Athabaskan\u00a0by John E. Smelcer. Dr. Smelcer received his\u00a0Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing\u00a0from\u00a0Binghamton University, where he received the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Research. He is a\u00a0son of an Alaska Native father from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-featured-book","8":"category-university-archives"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}