new book...release date January 2012...

a new book of collected works about the  American Indian Movement, 1970-present,  includes:

  • essays about Anna Mae Aquash/murder trials from antoinette's Indian Country blog 
  • previously unpublished work by Robert Robideau (rip)
  • and information on Leonard Peltier's current campaign for Executive Clemency....

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ongoing, new Project  about Louise Bryant....www.louisebryantbook.blogspot.com
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self portrait  autumn equinox,  2010, Ashfield, Mass. 

BIO
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Jan. 2011


"Decades of Deceit: a Life Sentence for John Graham"
by antoinette nora claypoole
published at Infoshop News, regarding old AIM murder trials

"Sassing Back"  by antoinette nora claypoole
a Review of Sharon Doubiago's "My Father's Love"
published in New England's  Wilderness Literary Review
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BIO

"lithia creek self portrait"  ashland, oregon 2010

antoinette claypoole is a published author, poet from Ashland, Oregon.  And Taos, New Mexico.  Her first book Who Would Unbraid her Hair: the legend of annie mae is an underground classic about the American Indian Movement and was recently acquired by the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. in their Library collection.  A recipient of a Literary Non-Fiction fellowship Award from Oregon Literary Arts, she is currently completing a trilogy of poetic exposes and previously unpublished work by/about the life and lost works of Louise Bryant (1885-1936), for which antoinette received the Oregon Award. Ghost Rider Roads, her project about the American Indian Movement from 1970-present, will be released in January 2012. It includes writings by Robert Robideau (RIP), Anishanabe
and essays written by the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
about his history and current efforts demanding Executive Clemency.

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good NEWS...!!
Who Would Unbraid Her Hair: the legend of annie mae was recently acquired by the Smithsonian Institute Library, Washington, D.C.  for excerpts...click book cover image


 

 
recent work : Spring/Winter 2009
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     InfoShop News Pieces (2007-present)
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      Salt River Review, ed. James Cervantes

      works/projects in progress





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      artwork credits
      "yucaipa spring: calif." self portrait
      "magadelana, nm" photo/art by antoinette pentax
      "Sitting Bull" acrylic by Robert Robideau
      Louise Bryant circa 1918, photographer unknown
      "self portrait, 2008 desert relapse" digital

















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      antoinette nora claypoole

      I have been published in various anthologies throughout the North and South West of the U.S.--some quite esoteric, some renegade and a few "literary" feats. Recently receiving a fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts, my current passion-- the Watersong Project--takes flight as it is synchronistically fused with/in the "lost works" of Louise Bryant (1885-1936), socialist and journalist who witnessed the October Uprising of 1917 (the Russian/Bolshevik Revolution). Some of my past sojourns include freelance work about the American Indian Movement, John Graham and Arlo Looking Cloud trial coverage for Pacifica Radio, KPFK, Los Angeles (2003-2005) and creating books as the founding editor of a literary press, Wild Embers, begun in Taos, N.M.

      Embe      rs is an effort committed to printing/creating books which tell a story about how we can survive these times. All the while loving where we came from. So we can get to where we long to be. One of our first books, la Puerta, Taos the art of fetching sky includes artists/writers of N. New Mexico. And will FINALLY be in print this Spring (2007).

      My first published book was a treatise for American Indian Movement leader, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash-- found murdered in 1976. Who Would Unbraid her Hair: the legend of annie mae (1999, dist. Clear Light Books, Santa Fe, N.M.) is now nearly out of print but remains a classic within underground circles worldwide. As an activist for Indigenous people, in the 1970's and 80's I learned that knowledge and art were the two most essential components for change--AND survival of not only indigenous cultures, but all of us humans.


      Recent new book is Rivers in Her Eyes, (excerpts, click here) an historical fiction based on the Dine (Navajo) of Big Mountain, Az., creating a fervor which found some people burning the book, indeed! The MFA I received from Antioch University Los Angeles will always save my life, writing poetry replenishes my soul, and Indian Country once retrieved my spirit. Now I create writing places for all of us to dream.

      "Nightsong" photo (above) by Gail Russell as seen in la Puerta, Taos
      TOP photos by Jaap Vanderplas and antoinette nora claypoole
      from la puerta, taos



      the butterfly effect bio
      as an author, mother, activist and photographer
      i feel that if you love mosquitoes they won't bite.
      as a sister daughter auntie lover i know
      dreams are where we really live.
      as a human being human
      i live by the magadalene reality
      that all people are one.

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      2007 writings index
      Fall 2007
      Interview in Heyoka Magazine (click here)
      antoinette's writing life: w/ John LeKay

      spring 2007
      Murder, Wrapped in a Blanket
      piece about Anna Mae Pictou Aquash and Robert Robideau

      winter 2007
      "Rock Garden Hearts"
      John Trudell and Anna Mae Aquash
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      spring 2006
       Rivers in Her Eyes, historical fiction
      about Big Mountain, Az      .
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