Diane Burns
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Diane Burns (Chemehuevi/Anishinaabe) (b. 1957, Lawrence, Kansas - December 22, 2006, New York City) and raised with her two brothers in Riverside, CA where her parents taught at the Sherman Indian School. When she was about 10 years old, the family moved to the Lac Corte Oreilles reservation in Hayward, Wis., then on to Wahpeton, N.D., when her parents began teaching at another boarding school there. She spent her senior year of high school at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., before attending Barnard College for 3 years on scholarship.
Burns moved to the East Village in the late ’70s and quickly became enmeshed in the Downtown arts scene. In 1988, she was among a group of writers invited to Nicaragua to take part in the Ruben Dario Poetry Festival. She also helped launch Tribes magazine and gallery.
Books
Riding the one-eyed Ford, Contact II Publications, 1981.
See Also
- Obituary for Diane by Sarah Ferguson
- Review of Alcatraz is not an Island by Diane Burns
- Review of Itch Like Crazy by Diane Burns
- review of The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)] by Diane Burns
