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Biography:
She was born Roberta Hill in 1947 into the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. She lived with her family on the reservation and also in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Her father was a musician. She attended local schools.
Long interested in languages and story, Hill earned a BA in creative communication from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, an MA in fine arts from the University of Montana, and a PhD in American Studies from theUniversity of Minnesota. Her doctoral thesis was a biography and study of her paternal grandmother, Lillie Rosa Minoka Hill, a Mohawk who was the second Native American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. She married an Oneida man and in 1905 moved with him from Philadelphia to the Wisconsin reservation. Minoka Hill lived there for decades, operating a "kitchen clinic" in her home.
Marriage and family
Hill married Ernest Whiteman, an artist. They have three children: Jacob, Heather, and Melissa. He illustrated her first collection of poetry, Star Quilt (1984).
Career
Whiteman has taught as a lecturer at numerous colleges. She has published poetry and essays on her work.
She has been an instructor for Poets-in-the-Schools Program at various locales, including Minnesota, Arizona, and Oklahoma. She is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Hill_Whiteman)
Works by Roberta Hill Whiteman:
She was born Roberta Hill in 1947 into the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. She lived with her family on the reservation and also in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Her father was a musician. She attended local schools.
Long interested in languages and story, Hill earned a BA in creative communication from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, an MA in fine arts from the University of Montana, and a PhD in American Studies from theUniversity of Minnesota. Her doctoral thesis was a biography and study of her paternal grandmother, Lillie Rosa Minoka Hill, a Mohawk who was the second Native American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. She married an Oneida man and in 1905 moved with him from Philadelphia to the Wisconsin reservation. Minoka Hill lived there for decades, operating a "kitchen clinic" in her home.
Marriage and family
Hill married Ernest Whiteman, an artist. They have three children: Jacob, Heather, and Melissa. He illustrated her first collection of poetry, Star Quilt (1984).
Career
Whiteman has taught as a lecturer at numerous colleges. She has published poetry and essays on her work.
She has been an instructor for Poets-in-the-Schools Program at various locales, including Minnesota, Arizona, and Oklahoma. She is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Hill_Whiteman)
Works by Roberta Hill Whiteman:
- Star Quilt (1984/reprint 1999)
- Philadelphia Flowers (1996)
- Works included in Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry, edited by Duane Niatum, Harper, 1975; The Third Woman: Minority Women Writers of the United States, edited by Dexter Fisher, Houghton, 1980; and Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry, edited by Niatum, Harper, 1988.
- Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill: Mohawk Woman Physician, University of Minnesota, 1998 (biography of her grandmother)
