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Richard Dauenhauer is an American poet and translator who has married into, and become an expert on, the Tlingit nation of southeastern Alaska. His wife is the Tlingit poet and scholar Nora Marks Dauenhauer.

He earned his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, with a dissertation titled Text and Context of Tlingit Oral Tradition.

He is a former poet laureate of Alaska.

Together the Dauenhauers are the editors of the Sealaska Heritage Foundation's highly regarded Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature series.

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