Peter Blue Cloud

Peter Blue Cloud (Aroniawenrate) (1933 – 2011 ) was a Kahnawakeronon poet, and folklorist.

Early life He was born June 10, 1933, of the Turtle Clan of the Mohawk Nation on the Caughnawaga Reserve in Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada. He was previously associated with the journal Akwesasne Notes and the journal Indian Magazine.

His Christian name was Peter Williams but he went by Peter Blue Cloud. The name Aroniawenrate as a nickname has been translated in English as "Stepping across the Blue Sky" or "Climbing up toward the Blue Sky". Peter Blue Cloud had pen names of Coyote 2, Owl's Child, Turtle's Son, and Kaienwaktatsie. In the late 1950s, he traveled to California, where he was employed as an ironworker in the Bay Area. After quitting, he worked as a logger with the Haida people in the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, as a ranch hand in the vicinity of Susanville, California, and doing archaeological field work with the Paiute people of Pyramid Lake, Nevada.

Death

Blue Cloud died in Montreal on April 27, 2011. Works "Coyote, Coyote, Please Tell Me" poem "An Arrangement" poem Alcatraz is not an island, Wingbow Press (1972) Turtle, bear and wolf, Akwesasne Notes (1976) Back then tomorrow, Brunswick, Maine : Blackberry Press (1978) The paranoid foothills: a work of fiction, Blackberry (1981)

Crazy Horse Monument (1995)

Anthologies