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Ray Young Bear
Ray Young Bear (born 1950 in Marshalltown, Iowa) (Meskwaki) is a poet and novelist. He writes about contemporary Native Americans in English and in Meskwaki. The theme of his poems and other works are American Indians' search for identity. His poems express the painful awareness of identity loss.
==Early life and education==
Ray Young Bear was born into a Meskwaki family on the Meskwaki Tribal Settlement in Iowa. It is unique as a place where in 1857 the Meskwaki bought land privately for the tribe, like other citizens, authorized by state legislation.
Young Bear spoke Meskwaki as his first language, taught by his maternal grandmother, No-ko-me-sa; she also encouraged him to learn English. He was not comfortable in this language until late in high school.〔 She was also a key teacher of his culture, its customs, and its myths and belief systems, which he embraces. He has been influenced as a writer, feeling it was "in his blood," by his family's holdings of journals belonging to both his grandfathers.〔
As a youth, Young Bear attended an Upward Bound program at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Later he met poet Robert Bly, who was very influential. Young Bear also studied at Pomona State College, where he took advantage of the chance to hear readings by visiting poets.〔(Elias Ellefson, "What it Means to be a Meskwaki": Ray Young Bear interview ), ''Des Moines Register,'' 4 September 1994〕
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