In Memory ~ Lincoln, Ken

Ken Lincoln, born 7/22/1943, died 5/10/2024 (info added 6/3/2024)

Celebrate the life of KENNETH ROBERT LINCOLN.  The park is located at 1501 Will Rogers State Park Road in Pacific Palisades, CA. Friends are welcome; please bring poems, songs, and memories to share. The law forbids us from serving alcohol, but does permit guests to BYOB and raise a glass. For more information please email Rachel at kenrobertlincoln@aol.com.

Obituary from the Alliance Times Herald:

Kenneth Lincoln died on May 10 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the age of 80. Ken was born in Texas and grew up in Nebraska, where his great-grandparents homesteaded along the North Platte River. He lived in Bayard as a child and graduated in 1961 from Alliance High School, where he was an accomplished musician, a varsity football and golf player, and named “best all-around student.” As a young adult, Ken was adopted into the Oglala Sioux by the Mark Monroe family and given the Lakota name, Mato Yanmi. He went to Stanford University for an A.B. in American Literature, to Indiana University for a Ph.D. in British Literature, and to UCLA in 1969, where he taught Contemporary and Native American Literatures for over forty-five years. While at UCLA, Professor Lincoln developed the American Indian Studies curriculum, chaired the country’s first interdisciplinary Master’s Program in American Indian Studies, and published widely in the field: Native American Renaissance (University of California Press 1983), The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America (Harper & Row 1987), UCLA Native American Poetry Series (nine titles, 1975-1993), Indi’n Humor: Bicultural Play in Native America (Oxford University Press 1993), Men Down West (Capra Press, 1997), a collection of essays on growing up along the frontier. He is survived by his daughter, Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff. Those interested in sharing their memories of Ken or interest in attending his memorial in Los Angeles can email kenrobertlincoln@aol.com.

1961 picture

Jim Brice contacted Ken's daughter, Rachel.  Any classmates that want to send condolences can email  KenRobertLincoln@aol.com

Rachel will be putting Ken's Obit in the Time Hearld.  

Ken died at home in Santa Fe, NM, Friday, 5/10/2024 He hadn't been sick...just passed in his sleep. 

Kindergarten picture

This is Ken's information from our 50th anniversary booklet

Lincoln, Ken

Spouse ~ Barbara

73 Camino Montoya

Santa Fe, NM  87507

505-474-0143

kennethlincoln@aol.com

C ~ Rachel age 40, living in Los Angeles and married

G ~ Gabriel 11, Julia 9, Chloe 3

I went away to college, kept coming back to learn more about home.   Married, divorced, and raised a daughter in Los Angeles.  She now has three children, and we're one big happy family since I married a second time last year.  Barbara and I live in Santa Fe, recently retired.

The past 50 years I've been teaching American and Native American Literature at UCLA, reading and writing, scratching my head and wondering how I got where I am and where it's all going. Maybe someone back home can help explain this.

I found this info about Ken on the web.

Lincoln, Kenneth R.

Professor Emeritus

Kaplan 240
Tel: 310.825.7420 / Fax: 310.267.4339 / E-mail

Education

Ph.D. 1970, Indiana University. American and Native American Studies.

Additional Information

Kenneth Lincoln was born in Texas and grew up in northwest Nebraska, where his great-grandparents homesteaded along the North Platte River and ranching sandhills. He graduated from public high school in Alliance, Nebraska, a cattle and farming town south of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation. Lincoln was adopted into the Oglala Sioux by the Mark Monroe family and given the Lakota name, Mato Yanmi. He went to Stanford University for an A.B. in American Literature, to Indiana University for a Ph.D. in British Literature, and to UCLA in 1969, where he has taught Contemporary and Native American Literatures for over twenty-five years. Professor Lincoln has developed the American Indian Studies curriculum, chaired the country’s first interdisciplinary Master’s Program in American Indian Studies, and published widely in the field–Native American Renaissance (University of California Press 1983), The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America (Harper & Row 1987), UCLA Native American Poetry Series (nine titles, 1975-1993), Indi’n Humor: Bicultural Play in Native America (Oxford University Press 1993), Men Down West (Capra Press, 1997), a collection of essays on growing up along the frontier. Lincoln has completed a novel on mixed-bloods in Los Angeles, City of Indians, a linked sonnet sequence, Orpheus Afoot, and a new study of American and Native American poetries, Native Poetics. He and his daughter Rachel are collaborating on a narrative of single-parenting, Father to Daughter.

Interest Areas
• Native American and Indigenous Studies
• American Literature & Culture