Carroll Arnett collection

 

Carroll Arnett (Gogisgi), 1927-1997, was one of the most prolific poets of the Cherokee Nation and was nationally recognized. At CMU he taught as a professor of English, 1970-1997. He wrote more than 300 poems and stories under the name Arnett or Gogisgi. In 1974 he received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing. His  papers, 6 cubic feet, mainly include letters, photographs, his books, and his published writing in English, Dutch and Cherokee, mostly in publications of Indigenous Peoples, some of which he edited, and his letters and collected material about the American Indian Movement standoff at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973 and resulting impact. The first creative writing scholarship at CMU was established in his honor in 1998.