[List] Lance Henson in Europe

Bartl, Renate bartl at american-indian-workshop.org
Thu Nov 19 15:15:19 CET 2009


Cheyenne/Oglala Sioux poet Lance Henson is presently in Europe and can  
be booked for lectures and readings.

Email Lance Hanson: lancehens at yahoo.com

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Biography:

Lance Henson, Cheyenne/Oglala Sioux poet

Lance David Henson, born in Washington, D. C. in 1944, is Cheyenne,  
Oglala Sioux and French. He was raised on a farm near Calumet,  
Oklahoma by his great aunt and uncle, Bertha and Bob Cook. His great  
uncle was the groundskeeper for Chapter One of the Native American  
Church of Oklahoma. Lance was the last of five boys raised by this  
couple. He grew up living the Southern Cheyenne culture. He served in  
the U. S. Marine Corps after high school, during the Vietnam War, and  
is a graduate of Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts (now University of  
Science and Arts of Oklahoma) in Chickasha. He holds a MFA in creative  
writing from the University of Tulsa.

After ten years of conducting poetry workshops through the Artist in  
Residence program of the State Arts Council of Oklahoma, Lance began  
to travel, working both in the U.S. and in Europe.

Lance is a member of the Cheyenne Dog Soldier Society, the Native  
American Church and the American Indian Movement (AIM). He has  
participated in Cheyenne Sun Dance on several occasions as both dancer  
and painter.

Lance has published 17 books of poetry, half in the U.S. and half  
abroad. His poetry has been translated into 25 languages and he has  
read and lectured in 9 countries. His readings include the One World  
Poetry Festival in Amsterdam, the International Poetry Festival in  
Tarascon, France, and the Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival in New  
Jersey . In  March 2008 he was feature poet and the National Museum of  
the American Indian in Washington D.C. as part of the Vine Deloria  
memorial reading series. He has co-written two plays, one of which,  
Winter Man, had a successful run at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre  
Company. His play Coyote Road played to sell out audiences in  
Versailles, France in December 2001. A new remix of a jazz and poetry  
CD titled Another Train Ride (1999) has appeared in collaboration with  
Brian Eno, titled The Wolf and the Moon, from Materiali Sonori, Milan,  
Italy (2001)

Lance represented the United States Information Service as a Featured  
Lecturer in Singapore, Thailand, New Guinea and New Zealand in 1993.  
He has also represented the Southern Cheyenne Nation at the European  
Free Alliance in Leeuwarden, Netherlands and at the United Nations  
Indigenous Peoples Conference in Geneva in 1988. He returned to speak  
at another conference there in 1997.

In April 2006 Words From the Edge will sponsor a mini-tour in Italy of  
Indigenous poets from endangered tribes, organized by Lance.

Awards

On Oct. 16, 2004, Lance was named to the Alumni Hall of Fame at the  
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha.

In the summer of 1995, Lance had a residency at the Millay Colony for  
the Arts.

In the spring of 1993, he was poet-in-residence at the University of  
New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Lance had two books, Cheyenne Sketchbook and Another Distance, among  
the five poetry finalists in the 1992 Oklahoma Book Awards sponsored  
by the Oklahoma Center for the Book.

During the summer of 1992, Lance was in residence at the Mad River  
Theater in West Liberty, Ohio, where the play Coyote Road, co-authored  
with Jeff Hooper, was performed.

A Ford Foundation Fellowship supported Lance's attendance at the  
University of Tulsa.

Online Biography:

http://www.usao.edu/alumni/HallofFame/bios/Lance%20David%20Henson.html

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