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Trevino L. Brings Plenty
Born	April 4, 1976 Eagle Butte, South Dakota
Occupation	poet, musician, composer
Nationality	Native American
Period	Early 21st Century
Genre	Native American Literature,
Website
www.trevinobringsplenty.com

Trevino L. Brings Plenty, was born on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, Eagle Butte, South Dakota, April 4, 1976. A Miniconjou Lakota Indian, he lived on the reservation until age three, then with family moved to Bay Area, CA. At age 16, he moved to Portland, Oregon where he now resides. He is 55/64 Lakota; the 9/64 is unknown (probably fur trapper).

Trevino L. Brings Plenty is a poet and musician who lives, works, and writes in Portland, OR. He is singer/songwriter/guitarist for the musical ensemble Ballads of Larry Drake. He has read/performed his work at poetry festivals as far away as Amman, Jordan and close to his home base at Portland’s Wordstock Festival, 2005.

Trevino is an American and Native American; a Lakota Indian born on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, USA. Some of his work explores the American Indian identity in American culture and how it has through genealogical history affected indigenous peoples in the 21st century. He writes of urban Indian life; it’s his subject.

His work has appeared in these journals/anthologies:
Oregon Literary Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2007
Red Ink Magazine, Vol.13, No. 1 Spring 2007
Art in America, October 2006
Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry,OSU, Fall 2006
Open Wide Magazine (U.K.), Issue 12, 2005
Alchemy Literary Magazine, P.C.C., c2004.
Portland Lights: a poetry anthology, Nine Lights Press, c1999.
Playing with a full deck: poets from around the Portland-Seattle ellipse, 26 Books, c1998.

Selected works

Poetry

• Real Indian Junk Jewelry[1], Backwaters Press, 2012.
• Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets[2], Michigan State University Press, 2008.

Music

• Ballads of Larry Drake an Open source music project [3]

Film

• Iktomi Films Video Art Projects [4]