Post high school he worked as a firefighter for the U.S Forest Service, as a laborer and as an Upward Bound counselor. In 1958, James Welch graduated from Washburn High School in Minneapolis. Because Welch was raised in an American Indian setting, the traditions and religion, specifically from the Blackfoot history, were the sources of his writing. As a child, Welch attended schools on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations. Both also had Irish ancestry but had grown up within Native American cultures. His mother, Rosella Marie (née O'Bryan) Welch (Decem– July 3, 2003), a stenographer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was a member of the Gros Ventre (A'aninin). (J– May 23, 2006), a welder and rancher, was a member of the Blackfeet tribe. James Welch was born in Browning, Montana on November 18, 1940. In 1997 Welch received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. His novel Fools Crow (1986) received several national literary awards, and his debut novel Winter in the Blood (1974) was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 2013. (Novem– August 4, 2003), who grew up within the Blackfeet and A'aninin cultures of his parents, was a Native American novelist and poet, considered a founding author of the Native American Renaissance. Welch in 2000 after being knighted and awarded an honorary medal by France
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