Nora Marks Dauenhauer (May 8, 1927 – September 25, 2017[1]) was an American Tlingit poet, short-story writer, and Tlingit language scholar from Alaska. She won an American Book Award for Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804. She was born in Yakutat, Alaska.
Dauenhauer died at her home in Juneau, Alaska on September 25, 2017 at the age of 90.[1]