Gerald Vizenor
Gerald Vizenor
Gerald Robert Vizenoris an Anishinaabe writer and scholar, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. Vizenor also taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Director of Native American Studies. With more than 30 books published, Vizenor is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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