Lance Henson

Henson was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up near Calumet, Oklahoma, where his grandparents raised him in the traditions of the Cheyenne tribe.

[2][3] He grew up near Calumet, Oklahoma, where he was raised by his grandparents who immersed him in the traditions and culture of the Cheyenne tribe.

[1][5] Henson published his first book of poetry, Keeper of Arrows, in 1971, when he was still a student at Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts.

[8] At the United Nations Indigenous Peoples Conference in Geneva in 1988, Henson represented the Southern Cheyenne.

[4] In 1993, he was part of a United States Information Agency tour, in which he lectured in Singapore, Thailand, New Guinea and New Zealand.

[13][14] His work is influenced Walt Whitman, N. Scott Momaday, Carl Jung, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain.