Janet Campbell Hale
For the American educational theorist and educator, see Janet Hale. Janet Campbell Hale (January 11, 1946 – November 23, 2021) was a Native American writer and professor. She was Coeur d'Alene and of Ktunaxa and Cree descent. In a sparse style that has been compared to Hemingway, Hale's work often explored issues of Native American identity and discusses poverty, abuse, and the condition of women in society. She wrote Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter (1993), which includes a discussion of the Native American experience as well as stories from her own life. She also wrote The Owl's Song (1974), The Jailing of Cecelia Capture (which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1985), Women on the Run (1999), and Custer Lives in Humboldt County & Other Poems (1978). Early life Janet Campbell Hale was born on January 11, 1946, in Riverside, California. Her father, Nicholas Patrick Campbell, was a Coeur d'Alene Indian who became an American citizen after his service in the U.S. Army in the first world war, and Margaret Sullivan Campbell, a Canadian with an Irish-Canadian father and a Kootenay/Cree mother. The family lived on the Coeur D'Alene reservation; while her siblings had been born on the