Trevino Brings Plenty is a Lakota Sioux (Mnikȟówožu) poet and musician, who was born on the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation.[1][2] He currently serves as Coordinator of Native American Student Services at Portland State University.[3]

Trevino Brings Plenty
LanguageEnglish, Lakota
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipLakota Sioux tribal citizen

Scholar Karen Poremski summarizes him as being a "Lakota poet who has lived a significant portion of his life in the city of Portland, Oregon, in a post-Relocation atmosphere of people from different communities and traditions coming together to resist colonization and express Indigenous art."[4]

In 2015, his music was featured in the Indigenous video game Invaders, a remix of Space Invaders. The music was described by scholar Deborah Madsen as "an intricate reinterpretation of the original game music within the context of survivance"[5]

Books edit

  • Wakpá Wanáǧi, Ghost River (Backwaters Press, 2015)
  • Real Indian Junk Jewelry (Backwaters Press, 2012)
  • Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (Michigan State University Press, 2008)

References edit

  1. ^ "Trevino L. Brings Plenty". 14 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Trevino Brings Plenty Interview - Powell's Books".
  3. ^ "Trevino Brings Plenty | Portland State University".
  4. ^ Poremski, Karen M. (2017). ""Basket Becomes Codex: A Poem by Trevino Brings Plenty in the Portland Art Museum"". Transmotion. 3 (2): 53–78. doi:10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.264.
  5. ^ Madsen, Deborah L. (2017). "The Mechanics of Survivance in Indigenously-Directed Video-Games: Invaders and Never Alone". Transmotion. 3 (2): 79–110. doi:10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.371.