Marshall will also be inducted into the Western Writers Hall of Fame, housed at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Conley and bestselling novelists Rudolfo Anaya, Elmore Leonard, and Tony Hillerman. Utley Cherokee scholar and novelist Robert J. Scott Momaday and Louise Erdrich historians Eve Ball and Robert M. Previous honorees include Pulitzer Prize winners N. Which is why on June 24 in Rapid City, South Dakota-not too far from where Marshall was born-Western Writers of America is giving him the Owen Wister Award for lifetime contributions to Western literature. And he’s one of the best Native writers at work today, writing fiction and nonfiction about Lakotas. He’s also respectful, honest, witty, and often hilarious. And he isn’t one to hold back on what he thinks. This Oglala/Sicangu Lakota doesn’t have to shout to get his point across. Like many Lakota men, he’s tall, lean, strong, with probing eyes that don’t miss anything. Marshall III about some pressing issues in Indian Country today and notable Native Americans whose influence has benefitted and exemplified Native people. We talk with Owen Wister Award recipient Joseph M.
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