Mike Austin (January 1, 1953 – January 10, 2006) was a Cherokee poet. He was of mixed heritage and was partially raised in Oklahoma, the Cherokee Nation, Texas and Austria. He lived and published his writings in Vienna, Austria starting in 1990. He continued to visit his home, family and friends, in Oklahoma regularly from the different formal and informal gatherings "up in the city" to ceremonies and other celebrations both family and tribal "down home" in the Cherokee Nation.
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1 January 1953
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Died |
10 January 2006 (aged 53)
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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