Vedic Horoscope for Allen, Paula Gunn

Native American poet, literary critic, lesbian activist, and novelist. Of mixed-race European-American and Native American descent, she identified with the Laguna Pueblo of her childhood years, the culture in which she'd grown up. She drew from its oral traditions for her fiction and poetry, and also wrote numerous essays on its themes. She edited four collections of Native American traditional stories and contemporary works, and wrote two biographies of Native American women. She died on May 29, 2008, aged 68.Sy Scholfield quotes her in "The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk about Living Feminism" by Christina Looper Baker [et al] (Bantam Books, 1996), p. 212: "If you are a double Scorpio, which I am, and trying to deal with a woman, you are in a pressure cooker." Date, year and place from LA Times obit (June 7, 2008): "Born Oct. 24, 1939, in Grants, N.M., Paula Marie Francis grew up in Cubero, N.M." [1].