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Biography
†10 January 2006
A Cherokee of mixed heritage from Oklahoma (USA), Mike has been living
in Vienna since 1990. In Oklahoma he was engaged in social and cultural
programs at the Native American Center. In Europe he has been an active
member of the Society for Threatened Peoples. Professionally a psychologist
and social worker, he also visited schools and universities as poet and
lecturer. Co-organizer of the 2001-2 ‘words from the edge’
European tour by indigenous poets. Regularly published essays in human
rights magazines, incl. bedrohte völker. His poetry has appeared
in the Cherokee Advocate and several anthologies of Native American authors,
incl. indigenous voices of the world, (2000), 280 Sprachen für Wien
(2001), American Indian Poetry – In the Spirit of Resistance (2001).
Short bibliography:
Kreisender Adler, Singender Stern [Circling Eagle, Singing Star], Kathe
Recheis & Georg Bydlinski, Herder Publishing, Vienna, 1996.
Erinnerung an das Töten. Genozid reflexiv. [Memories of the Killing:
GenocideRevisited],
Bernhard Schneider/ARCHE, Boehlau Publishing, Vienna, 1999.
Quimper and Poetry [Quimper est Poésie], Oliver Hobe & Béatrice
Machet/Unicef Literary Series "Indigenous Voices of the World",
Maison pour
Tous d'Ergué Armel Publishing, Quimper/France, 2000.
280 Sprachen für Wien [280 Languages for Vienna], Thomas Fritz,
College Publishing Edition, Vienna/Austria, 2001.
American Indian Poetry – In the Spirit of Resistance [La Poésie
Amérindienne – L'espirit de
Résistance], Béatrice Machet, Place aux Sens Publishing,
Nanterre/France, 2001.
Website:
http://www.nativewiki.org/Mike_Austin
Poem
journey song
the rhythm of my song
is more ancient
than the song itself
listen
to its flow
along the river
as you feel its only truth
inside of you
the reason of our journey
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