In his youth he spent summers with his father's relatives on reservations in Washington and Montana. In an article published in New York magazine two months after Dorris's death, a reporter quoted the Modoc tribal historian as saying, "Dorris was probably the descendant of a white man named Dorris whom records show befriended the Modocs on the West Coast just before and after the Modoc War of Even so, there is no record of a Dorris having been enrolled as an Indian citizen on the Klamath rolls.
She later married a white man named Dorris. He received his BA cum laude in English and Classics from Georgetown University in and a Masters degree from Yale University in in anthropology, after beginning studies for a theater degree.
He did his field work in Alaska studying the effects of off shore drilling on the Native Alaskan communities.
In , he became one of the first unmarried men in the United States to adopt a child. His adopted son, a three-year-old Lakota boy named Reynold Abel, was eventually diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome. Dorris' struggle to understand and care for his son became the subject of his work The Broken Cord in which he uses the pseudonym "Adam" for his son. Dorris adopted two more Native American children, Jeffrey Sava in and Madeline Hannah in , both of whom also likely suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome.
In , he wrote the text to accompany the photographs of Joseph C. In , he and his 3 adopted children left their home in Cornish, New Hampshire to spend a year's sabbatical in New Zealand. During his sabbatical in New Zealand, Dorris and Erdrich had begun corresponding regularly by mail.
After their marriage, she adopted his three children and eventually gave birth to their three daughters: Persia Andromeda, Pallas Antigone, and Aza Marion.
Erdrich and Dorris contributed to each other's writing and together wrote romance fiction under the pseudonym Milou North to supplement their income, with many of their works being published in the British magazine Woman Erdrich dedicated her novels The Beet Queen and Tracks to Dorris.
The family lived in Cornish, New Hampshire. While teaching at Dartmouth, Dorris frequently mentored other students and was part of the successful effort to get rid of the college's Indian mascot.
In , Dorris wrote a series of essays published as Rooms in the House of Stone and a collection of short stories titled Working Men. A collection of essays, Paper Trail: Collected Essays, , was published in The following year, Dorris again concentrated his energies on young-adult fiction and wrote Guests. Early in , Dorris published his novel Cloud Chamber to rave reviews; his young-adult novel The Window was published posthumously in October with equally enthusiastic reviews.
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My Preferences My Reading List. He did his field work in Alaska, studying the effects of offshore drilling on the Native Alaskan communities. At a time of rising Native American activism, in , Dorris helped form Dartmouth College's Native American Studies department, and served as its first chair. In , he became one of the first unmarried men in the United States to adopt a child. His adopted son, a 3-year-old Lakota boy named Reynold Abel, was eventually diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome.
Dorris' struggle to understand and care for his son became the subject of his memoir The Broken Cord in which he uses the pseudonym "Adam" for his son. Dorris adopted two more Native American children, Jeffrey Sava in and Madeline Hannah in , both of whom also likely suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome. He wrote the text to accompany the photographs of Joseph C.
In , he took his three adopted children with him from Cornish, New Hampshire to New Zealand, where he had arranged a year's sabbatical. They had met 10 years earlier while he was teaching at Dartmouth and she was a student. During his sabbatical in New Zealand, Dorris and Erdrich had begun corresponding regularly by mail.
After their marriage, she adopted his three children. Dorris and Erdrich contributed to each other's writing and together wrote romance fiction under the pseudonym Milou North to supplement their income.
Many of the latter pieces were published in the British magazine Woman. The family lived in Cornish, New Hampshire. While teaching at Dartmouth, Dorris frequently mentored other students.
He was part of the successful effort to eliminate the college's Indian mascot. In , after the couple had received major grants, the family moved for a year to Northfield, Minnesota. Beginning in , Dorris' son Sava was sent to boarding school and military school.
Madaline began attending boarding school when she was In , his oldest son Reynold Abel was hit by a car and killed. Dorris, Erdrich, and their three daughters moved to Kalispell, Montana, allegedly because of death threats Sava had made towards them. They later returned to New Hampshire in They finally moved to the Piper Mansion in Minneapolis.
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