Welch, James, 1940-2003
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- His Riding the Earthboy 40; poems, 1971.
- NUCMC data from University of Mont.--Missoula, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, K. Ross Toole Archives for W. Bevis' Discussion of Winter in the blood with Jim Welch, 1974(Welch, James; Jim Welch)
- New York times, Aug. 9, 2003:obituaries (James Welch; Great Plains Indian writer; b. James Phillip Welch in Browning, Mont.; d. Aug. 4, 2003 in Missoula, Mont. at age 62)
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James Phillip Welch Jr. (November 18, 1940 – August 4, 2003), who grew up within the Blackfeet and A'aninin cultures of his parents, was a Native American novelist and poet. He is considered a founding author of the Native American Renaissance. His novel Fools Crow (1986) received several national literary awards, and his debut novel Winter in the Blood (1974) was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 2013. In 1997 Welch received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
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