Selected Events in 2006

Carter Revard – Leaving Tracks

Carter Revard’s poems and essays are about his Osage roots. They tell his story and his family’s story -- and the story of his people. As he explained to students at a reading at the Hugo-Heimann Library in Berlin-Wedding, poems "leave tracks." Carter Revard was born in 1931 in the Osage Indian Agency town of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. He is of Osage, Ponca, Irish and Scotch-Irish heritage. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Tulsa after winning a scholarship on a radio quiz show. As one of the first American Indian Rhodes Scholars, Revard earned his master’s at Oxford in 1954 and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1959. A scholar and professor of medieval English literature, he did not begin to teach courses on American Indian literature and culture until 1973 amidst growing national awareness of American Indian peoples awakened by the political events of the early 1970s.

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