"words are sacred"
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LGBT peopleEssayists from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesNative AmericansWomen born in the 1940s
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Writing as Witness: Essay and Talk (1994)
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Beth Brant
1941 – 2015
Beth E. Brant, Degonwadonti, or Kaieneke'hak (1941–2015) was a writer, essayist, and poet of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Ontario, Canada.
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