Ernestine Hayes

Ernestine Hayes (born 1945 Juneau, Alaska) is a Tlingit writer and professor in Juneau, Alaska. (Tlingit) memoirist.[1] Hayes belongs to the Kaagwaantaan, or wolf clan, on the Eagle side of the Tlingit nation.

Ernestine Hayes speaking in front of the Alaska State Capitol in July 2019

Life

Ernestine Hayes was raised in Juneau, and from the age of fifteen lived in California. She moved back to Alaska when she was 40 years old, and at the age of 55, she graduated from the University of Alaska Southeast, magna cum laude. In 2003, she graduated from University of Alaska Anchorage as Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Literary Arts. She currently teaches at University of Alaska Southeast and is associated faculty for the University of Alaska Anchorage low-residence MFA program.[2] Hayes is an active promoter of Native rights and culture, and decolonization.[3] For just over a year, she wrote a column, "Edge of the Village", for the Juneau Empire.

Awards
  • 2002 Alaska Native Writer Award Anchorage Daily News Fiction
  • 2006 Native America Calling October Book of the Month
  • 2007 Kiriyama Prize finalist for Blonde Indian, An Alaska Native Memoir
  • 2007 PEN-USA non-fiction award finalist
  • 2007 American Book Award.
  • 2007 HAIL (Honoring Alaska Indigenous Literature) Award
  • 2014 Alaska Literary Award
  • 2015 Rasmuson Artist, Djerassi Artist Residency
  • 2015 AWARE Woman of Distinction
  • 2016 Named Alaska State Writer Laureate for 2017-2018

Works
  • Lingʹit Aanʹi: an Alaska native memoir. University of Alaska Anchorage. 2003.
  • Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir. University of Arizona Press. 2006. ISBN 0-8165-2537-4.
  • Aanka Xóodzi ka Aasgutu Xóodzi Shkalneegί. Hazy Island Books. 2010.
  • The Story of the Town Bear and the Forest Bear. Hazy Island Books. 2010.
  • Images of America JUNEAU. Arcadia Publishing. 2013.
  • Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir. 2017.

Anthologies
  • Bill Sherwonit; Andromeda Romano-Lax, Ellen Bielawski, eds. (2003). "Point Retreat". Travelers' Tales Alaska: True Stories. Travelers' Tales. ISBN 978-1-885211-96-5.

Essays

Reviews

Blonde Indian is the memoir of Tlingit writer and story-teller Ernestine Hayes. Because of Hayes' fair hair, her grandmother sang out to her "Blonde Indian, blonde Indian" as Hayes danced along.[4]

Book Review Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir
Author:Becca Gercken, Studies in American Indian Literature
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/studies_in_american_indian_literatures/v021/21.2.gercken.html
Book Review Observatory Books, Dee Longenbaugh http://www.observatorybooks.com/Blonde_Indian.htm

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2009-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Bruce Elliott Johansen (2007). The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America: Linguistic, ethnic, and economic revival. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-99139-5.
  4. Sally Ito. "Book Review Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir". Waterbridge Review.
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