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Date Added: June 08, 2008 10:32:03 PM
Breakthrough Native American author, feminist and top scholar Paula Gunn Allen died of lung cancer at her California home at the age of 68.The one-time University of California-Los Angeles professor paved the way mainstream Native American authors when she began her career in the 1960s, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.What I want from readers is a fundamental recognition that American ...

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