Trevino L. Brings Plenty, was born on the Cheyenne River Reservation, Eagle Butte, South Dakota, April 4, 1976. A Minneconjou 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).
Bio 2005
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 The Vinos. 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.
Other titles by author: Removing Skin (2005); Real Indian Junk Jewelry (2004); Dead Indian Road Vol. I & II (2004); Drinking With The Rocks (2002); Making Out With Shotguns (2002); Poems Madly Made In Three Days (2001); All the Clocks Are Wrong (2000).