antoinette nora claypoole

antoinette nora claypoole moved from the East Coast to the West when there were still sundown laws, for Indians. Born in Rochester, N.Y. her parents met in the U.S. Marine Corps, her father becoming a U.S. Special Services EOD Officer. After travelling the world with them, Pittsburgh and Indiana, Pa. became her home. But soon. She headed "out West". With the hippy exodus.

antoinette nora is now a published author, poet from Ashland, Oregon. And Taos, New Mexico. Her first book "Who Would Unbraid her Hair: the legend of annie mae" (dist. Clear Light Books, Santa Fe. NM. 1999) is an underground classic about the American Indian Movement, which she met when she first arrived in Oregon. This book was the first of her "Indian Country trilogies" and was acquired by the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. in their permanent Library collection.

"Ghost Rider Roads" is the second of her collected works, released in 2013, about the American Indian Movement from 1970-present, and 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. Her newly released title and last of of her trilogy, -- a mythology and memoir, "Legends of Emergence"--depicts Indian Country and the Big Mountain battle in Dineh (Navajo) country.

A recipient of a Literary Non-Fiction fellowship Award from Oregon Literary Arts, antoinette nora is currently completing a title about the life and lost works of Louise Bryant (1885-1936), for which antoinette received the Oregon Award.