{"id":38108,"date":"2024-11-22T17:15:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T22:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/remembering-elizabeth-cook-lynn\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T17:15:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T22:15:46","slug":"remembering-elizabeth-cook-lynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/remembering-elizabeth-cook-lynn\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Elizabeth Cook-Lynn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eastern Washington University celebrates Native American Heritage Month by honoring Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As Eastern honors National Native American Heritage Month this November, we hope you might join us in celebrating the memory of the late Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, an EWU scholar who gained national prominence for her role in advancing academic interest in \u2014 and attention to \u2014 Native American scholarship.<\/p>\n

Cook-Lynn, 92, professor emeritus of English and Native American studies, died on July 5, 2023. A novelist, short-story writer and poet, Cook-Lynn, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, was also a tireless advocate in support of research and instruction centered on tribal histories and cultures. Among her many important contributions was a lengthy catalog of scholarly publications and a prominent role in establishing Eastern\u2019s first Indian Education Program, where she introduced hundreds of Eastern students to the emerging field of Native American studies.<\/p>\n

The 1990 Commencement Program for Eastern highlighted Cook-Lynn.<\/p>\n

Margo Hill-Ferguson, director of EWU\u2019s American Indian Studies Program and associate professor of urban and regional planning, says Cook-Lynn\u2019s work inspired a lasting legacy that extends throughout the EWU campus and nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cElizabeth Cook-Lynn was a true Native woman, visionary, and scholar,\u201d said Hill-Ferguson. She built the American Indian Studies program at EWU and supported Native American students for decades. We are forever grateful for her work, dedication to student education, and the advancement of American Indian Issues and Tribal Sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Working to establish Native studies wasn\u2019t easy. Back in the early 1970s, even as Eastern Athletics finally moved on from its \u201cSavages\u201d nickname, tension with administrators over the nature and scope of the new program were rife. \u201cIt is my opinion,\u201d Cook-Lynn wrote in 1973 to Emerson Shuck, then Eastern\u2019s president, \u201cthat we must no longer do just what is expedient in Indian Education\u2014we must define our basic philosophy, come to a reasonable agreement on that and get about working within the realities of that definition. There is a difference between the supportive services for Native American students, and Native American Education\/Studies as an academic venture. The former is likely to be clutched quickly to the bosoms of all of us, the latter is less instantaneously gratifying and much more hard work.\u201d In the end, it was Cook-Lynn\u2019s vision that prevailed, and her \u201chard work\u201d that moved it forward.<\/p>\n

Cook-Lynn letter discusses Native American education in public schools.<\/p>\n

Another notable milestone in Cook-Lynn\u2019s career was her service as founder and editor of the nationally prominent Wicazo Sa Review, \u201can interdisciplinary journal devoted to the mission of assisting Indigenous peoples of the Americas in taking possession of their own intellectual and creative pursuits.\u201d The Wicazo Sa Review remains in print, now published by the University of Minnesota Press.<\/p>\n

Cook-Lynn retired from EWU on July 1, 1990 after 19 years of service. \u201cIt is difficult to imagine what Eastern would be like,\u201d wrote a colleague after Cook- Lynn stepped down, \u201cif it were not for her enormous contributions of intelligence and care.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Eastern Washington University celebrates Native American Heritage Month by honoring Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. As Eastern honors National Native American Heritage Month this November, we hope you might join us in celebrating the memory of the late Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, an EWU scholar who gained national prominence for her role in advancing academic <\/p>\n

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