Elena Garro attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico and wrote plays for the university theatre.

Elena Garro published her play Un hogar sólido ( A Solid Home) In 1958 while writing for a local theatre group that ran plays out of the theatre at the

Old Dominion university is a college in Norfolk, Virginia. Natalie Diaz attended Old Dominion university and graduated in 2000 and eventually completed her MFA in 2007 at Old Dominion. Natalie Diaz attended Old Dominion on a full athletic scholarship and played for the Lady Monarchs, the university women’s basketball team. While Diaz no longer attends Old Dominion and does not reside anywhere in the area, the University was incredibly impactful to her.

The Fort Mojave Indian Village is where poet Natalie Diaz was born and raised. The village is part of the large Mojave Indian reservation that sits on the border of California, Nevada, and Arizona. Diaz currently lives there now after returning to the US after leaving behind playing professional basketball in Europe. You can see the impact that growing up in the Mojave Indian village had on Diaz’s life and writing.

Robin Wall Kimmerer spent her time learning the Potawatomi language through sticky notes placed in every place of her home and attending online language classes. The online language classes were originated in Oklahoma where there are 9 Native Americans from the Potawatomi tribe. During 1838, the Potawatomi tribe were condensed and removed from their homes in both Kansas and Indiana. During their separation and condensation of their homes, the children of the Potawatomi were taken from their homes and dealt with forced assimilation and their native language being beaten out of them.

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