Beth Piatote is a Nimi:pu: (Nez Perce) scholar and author. She is a member of Chief Joseph's Tribe and the

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. Piatote is an associate professor of Native American Studies in the department of Ethnic Studies at

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. Piatote holds a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from

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Life

In the mid-1990s, Piatote worked as a reporter with the Eugene ''

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''. Her research interests include Nimi:pu: (

Nez Perce The Nez Perce (; autonym in Nez Perce language: , meaning 'we, the people') are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who still live on a fraction of the lands on the southeastern Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest. This region h ...

) language and literature, Native American/Aboriginal literature and federal Indian law in the United States and Canada, as well as American literature and cultural studies, history and law. Piatote now resides in the

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with her two children.

Works

Academic writing

* '' Domestic Subject: Gender, Citizenship and Law in Native American Literature'' (Yale University Press, 2013)

Short story collections

* '' The Beadworkers'' (CounterPoint Press, 2019)

Articles

* ''The News of the Day'' (2009, University of Nebraska Press) * ''Our (Someone Else's) Father: Articulation, Dysarticulation, and Indigenous Literary Traditions'' (2010, Kenyon University) * ''Domestic Trials: Indian Rights and National Belonging in Works'' by E. Pauline Johnson and John M. Oskiso (2011, The Johns Hopkins University Press) * ''The Indian/Agent Aporia'' (2013, University of Nebraska Press) * ''Indian Country: Between Native Claims and Modernist Desires'' (2017, University of Cambridge Press) * ''“Stories Were Everywhere”'' (2018, University of North Carolina University Press)

Awards

* MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, 2012-13 (honorable mention for ''Domestic Subject: Gender, Citizenship and Law in Native American Literature'') * University of California Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2012 * Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2009–2010 * Hellman Family Faculty Fund Award, 2009 * Whiting Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, 2006–07 * Graduate Research Opportunity Grant,

, 2003 * Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 2001–03

References

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