Background
Welburn, Ron was born on April 30, 1944 in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Roanoke and Wampum: Topics in Native American Heritage and Literatures focuses on the discourses about selected legacies and writings predominantly of eastern Native North America. Ron Welburn skillfully approaches diverse subjects through scholarly and personal modes. More specifically, the book begins with the author reflecting on the sign talk of fifties television’s Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah, and it concludes with a discussion of a narrative by thirties Chippewa author Thomas Whitecloud. Other essays inquire about the southeastern Blackfoot, Jeffrey Amherst, and literary theories. Still others discuss Indian slaves, the Great Seal of the United States, Mildred Haun’s Melungeon novel, and nineteenth-century Indian interviewers. A section on William Apess features poetry and a scholarly essay.
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"Yes, there still shines this indigenous spirit that continues on as much as the rivers and will never vanish." How perfect that Ron dedicated Council Decisions to his mother, Jessie, and that his title poem refers to the Susquehanna as the path for escaping genocide. These poems are woven with rivers; their music, rhythms and chant effects flow as the rivers do on Mother Earth where Eastern Natives accord immense respect to girls and women. After reading Ron's book, I realized he had canoed me home through the complexities of his personal and family history and the story of all of us Indian people. How to say this poetry broke my heart but in a beautiful way, brilliantly providing refuge from the loss and sadness it river-dances out of? Nya'weh. - Susan Deer Cloud(Mohawk/Blackfoot/Seneca)
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English language educator poet
Welburn, Ron was born on April 30, 1944 in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, United States.
Bachelor, Lincoln University, 1968. Master of Arts, University Arizona, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1984.
Instructor humanities Lincoln (Pennsylvania) University, summer 1968. Instructor, assistant professor Syracuse (New York ) University, 1970-1975. Coordinator jazz oral history program Rutgers University Institute Jazz Studies, Newark, 1980-1983.
Assistant professor English department Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, 1987-1992. Associate professor English department University Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1992. Adjunct faculty colleges, New York and New Jersey, 1976-1978.
Adjunct faculty, lecturer State University of New York, Albany, other colleges in Albany area, 1984-1987. Consultant, writer in residence New York State Council on Arts, New York City, Amherst, Schenectady, 1972, 82, 85. Consultant Connecticut Humanities Council, 1988-1992, Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities, 1992-1995.
Director Native American Indian Studies, University Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1997.
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Member Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers.
Married m. Eileen D. Millett, 1971 (divorced 1987). 1 child, Elliott; married Cheryl Welburn, October 16, 1988. Stepchildren: Loren Beatty, Justin Beatty.