Autumn White Eyes
Autumn White Eyes (they/she) is Oglala Lakota and Turtle Mountain Band of Anishinaabe, and was raised on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the temporarily occupied settler-state of South Dakota.
They received a B.A. as a double major in Native American Studies and English with a concentration in Creative Writing at Dartmouth College, and an Ed.M. in Arts in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. They were 2018-2019 member of the Intercultural Leadership Institute and a recipient of the South Dakota Arts Council’s 2019 Artist Career Development Grant.
Autumn is a Queer, two-spirit femme spoken-word artist and arts educator. Her artwork focuses on releasing the femme, Queer, and Indigenous rage that lives deep within. Her Lakota name, Wanbli Ohitika Win means Brave Eagle Woman. Autumn lives with their partner and puppy and works remotely with Lakota youth poets as a Program Manager of Youth Development at First Peoples Fund. They live on their ancestral homelands.