Beth Piatote
Beth Piatote is a Nimi:pu: scholar and author. She is a member of Chief Joseph's Tribe and the Colville Confederated Tribes. Piatote is an associate professor of Native American Studies in the department of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley. Piatote holds a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University.
Life
In the mid-1990s, Piatote worked as a reporter with the Eugene Register-Guard. Her research interests include Nimi:pu: 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 San Francisco Bay Area with her two children.Works
Academic writing
- ''Domestic Subject: Gender, Citizenship and Law in Native American Literature''
Short story collections
- ''The Beadworkers''
Articles
The News of the Day Our Father: Articulation, Dysarticulation, and Indigenous Literary Traditions Domestic Trials: Indian Rights and National Belonging in Works by E. Pauline Johnson and John M. Oskiso The Indian/Agent Aporia Indian Country: Between Native Claims and Modernist Desires- ''“Stories Were Everywhere”''
Awards
- MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, 2012-13
- 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, Stanford University, 2003
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 2001–03