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Kent Nerburn is an author, sculptor, and educator who has been deeply involved in Native American issues and education. He developed and directed an award-winning oral history project on the Red Lake Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota. In addition to being a program evaluator for the Minnesota Humanities Commission and serving on their selection board, he has served as a consultant in curriculum development for the American Indian Institute in Norman, Oklahoma, and has been a presenter before various groups, including the National Indian Education Association and the President’s blue-ribbon panel on Indian Education.
Nerburn has served as project director for two books of oral history — To Walk the Red Road and We Choose to Remember. He has also edited three highly acclaimed books on Native American subjects: Native American Wisdom, The Wisdom of the Great Chiefs, and The Soul of an Indian. Nerburn is also the author of Letters to My Son, a book of essays written as a gift to his son; Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads, winner of the Minnesota Book Award for 1995, Simple Truths: Clear and Gentle Guidance on the Big Issues of Life, A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land, and Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life.
Kent Nerburn holds a PhD in both Theology and Art and lives with his family in northern Minnesota.
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