Navajo Nation Poet Laureate, Librettist, Writer, Speaker on Navajo Code Talkers

United States
Poetry as Community with Laura Tohe us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Writer's Institute now open for enrollment. On-line classes include writing workshops, panel discussion, and elder's teaching. Apply for a Writing Fellowship today! Open to all.
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Thank you everyone for helping to raise donations—poets, presses, and the audience, near and far. Stay safe everyone.
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Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund gofundme.com/f/NHFC19Relief?…
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@ we are not invisible, we are still here. The Navajo Nation needs supplies to combat COVID-19. We are the third largest group per capita to be infected with the virus. Years of poverty, lack of adequate healthcare and facilities, lack of good water and ...
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ways; they are the most vulnerable. My father, Benson Tohe, being one of the Navajo Code Talkers, was among a group of young men who stepped up during World War II to develop and use a military code that was never deciphered and helped save many American lives.
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Corporate media is finally beginning to focus on the stories taking place in indigenous communities. The NN is in distress, please help with what you can. Thank you. Stay safe. nndoh.org/donate.html
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If you're in NYC come to the poetry reading by Chris McCabe, editor of Poems from the Edge of Extinction, Valzhyna Mort, Bob Holman and moi. Bowery Poetry 308 Bowery, NY, NY. 3:30 - 5pm, Saturday Jan 19, 2020. Voices from all over the world- vulnerable & endangered-are here.
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Thank you everyone for your comments and for retweeting my poem.
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My books and my libretto, Enemy Slayer, A Navajo Oratorio.
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Written in honor of my late father and the Navajo Code Talkers who used the Navajo language as a secret weapon in WWII.
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