Darren Renville
- Writer
Darren Renville is a Dakota/Assinboine/Gros Ventre writer, enrolled as
a Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota on his reservation in northeastern South
Dakota. He considers himself primarily a novelist, but he's written a
range of different articles for publications such as Ikce Wicasta, a
magazine devoted to Dakota and Nakota tribal life and culture, and
contributed writing to the documentary Dakota Exile. His first major
publication was in Song of the Turtle: American Indian Literature 1974
- 1994. He was a 2007 Bush Foundation artist fellow, and his work was