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A blessing by N. Scott Momaday -- Introduction / by Joy Harjo -- Northeast and midwest. Writing a poetry of continuance / by Kimberly M. Blaeser -- Anishinaabeg dream song -- The water birds will alight -- Eleazar's elegy for Thomas Thacher / Eleazar, Unknown -- To the pine tree ; On leaving my children John and Jane at school, in the Atlantic states, and preparing to return to the interior / Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) -- Oh, give me back my bended bow / William Walker Jr., Wyandot -- Marshlands ; The song my paddle sings / Emily Pauline Johnson, Mohawk -- On the Long Island Indian / Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, Montaukett -- My industrial work / Anonymous Carlisle Student -- Seven woodland crows ; Family photograph ; Fat green flies / Gerald Vizenor, Anishinaabe-White Earth Nation -- The old man's lazy ; Rattle / Peter Blue Cloud, Mohawk -- Shrinking away ; Rez car / Jim Northrup, Anishinaabe-Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior -- Indian singing in 20th century America / Gail Tremblay, Onondaga, Mi'Kmaq -- The real Indian leans against ; Ceremony for completing a poetry reading / Chrystos, Menominee -- Dream of rebirth ; In the longhouse, Oneida Museum ; These rivers remember / Roberta Hill, Oneida -- Everything you need to know in life you'll learn in boarding school / Linda LeGarde Grover, Anishinaabe-Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe -- John Whirlwind's doublebeat songs, 1956 ; Our bird aegis ; One chip of human bone / Ray Young Bear, Meskwaki -- What's an Indian woman to do? / Marcie Rendon, Anishinabbe-White Earth Nation -- Indian machismo or skin to skin / Alex Jacobs, Akwesasne Mohawk -- Song for discharming ; Mapping the land / Denise Sweet, Anishinaabe-White Earth Nation -- Sweetgrass is around her / Salli M. Kawennotakie Benedict, Akwesasne Mohawk -- Dreams of water bodies ; Apprenticed to justice ; Captivity / Kimberly M. Blaeser, Anishinaabe-White Earth Nation -- November becomes the sky with suppers for the dead ; When names escaped us ; Sleeping in the rain / Gordon Henry Jr., Anishinababe-White Earth Nation -- Sure you can ask me a personal question ; Big fun / Diane Burns, Anishinaabe-Lac Courte Oreilles, Chemehuevi -- Prayer bowl / Al Hunter, Anishinaabe, Rainy River First Nations -- Chief Totopotamoi, 1654 ; Hard times / Karenne Wood, Monacan Nation -- Eel / Eric Gansworth, Onondaga -- Tonawanda swamps ; St. James Lake / James Thomas Stevens, Akwesasne Mohawk -- Prodigal daughter / Kimberly Wensaut, Potawatomi -- History / Steve Pacheco, Mdewakanton Dakota -- Nationhood ; Measuring the distance to Oklahoma / Laura Daʼ, Eastern Shawnee -- When I was in Las Vegas and saw a Warhol painting of Geronimo / B: William Bearhart, Anishinaabe-St. Croix
Plains and mountains. Placed with our power / by Heid E. Erdrich -- A new citizen / Elsie Fuller, Omaha -- The Red Man's America / Zitkála-S̆á (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), Yankton Dakota -- Man hesitates but life urges / D'Arcy McNickle, Métis, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes -- At dawn, sitting at my father's house / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Crow Creek Sioux -- Angle of geese ; The gourd dancer ; The delight song of Tsoai-Talee / N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa -- Frog Creek circle / Victor Charlo, Bitterroot Salish, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes -- Our blood remembers / Lois Red Elk, Isanti, Hunkpapa -- Harlem, Montana : just off the reservation ; The man from Washington ; Riding the earthboy 40 / James Welch, Gros Ventre, Blackfeet -- NAMȦHTÁSOOMȦHEVEME ; We are the spirits of these bones / Richard Littlebear, Northern Cheyenne -- Sitting alone in Tulsa at 3 A.M. ; Anniversary poem for Cheyennes who died at Sand Creek / Lance Henson, Southern Cheyenne -- The song called "White antelope's chant" / Suzan Shown Harjo, Southern Cheyenne, Hodulgee Muscogee -- Diablo Canyon / John Trudell, Santee Dakota -- Thought / Henry Real Bird, Crow -- 99 things to do before you die ; cooking class / Nila NorthSun, Shoshone, Anishanaabe -- Poem for Sonya Thunder Bull / Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya, Yuchi, Comanche -- Jacklight ; I was sleeping where the black oaks move ; Advice to myself / Louise Erdrich, Anishinaabe-Turtle Mountian Band -- Wicanĥpi Heciya Tanhan Unhipi (We come from the stars) / Gwen Nell Westerman, Dakota, Cherokee -- Burn ; Battlefield / Mark Turcotte, Anishinaabe-Turtle Mountain Band -- Wi'-Gi-E ; High ground / Elise Paschen, Osage -- Pre-occupied ; Offering : first rice ; The theft outright / Heid E. Erdrich, Anishinaabe-Turtle Mountain Band -- Teeth in the wrong places ; Night caller / Tiffany Midge, Standing Rock Sioux -- 38 ; Dilate / Layli Long Soldier, Oglala Lakota -- Family tree or Comanches and cars don't mix ; Typhoni / Sy Hoahwah, Yapaituka Comanche, Southern Arapaho -- Crosscurrent ; Casualties / M.L. Smoker, Assiniboine and Sioux -- Ghost River ; Blizzard, South Dakota / Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Minneconjou Lakota -- Blonde / Heather Cahoon, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes -- learning to say i love you ; the milky way escapes my mouth / Tanaya Winder, Duckwater Shoshone, Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute
Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Pacific Islands. Poetry of the Pacific Northwest : the arc of the edifice / by Cedar Sigo -- Poetry of Alaska / by Diane Lʼx̲eiś Benson -- Poetry of the Pacific / by Brandy Nālani McDougall -- Kumulipo Wāʻekahi -- Excerpts from a speech by Chief Seattle, 1854 / Chief Seattle, Suquamish, Duwamish -- Prayer song asking for a whale / Lincoln Blassi, St. Lawrence Island Yupʹik -- Good grease ; There is no word for goodbye / Mary TallMountain, Koyukon -- KaʻIli Pau / John Dominis Holt, Kanaka Maoli -- In memory of Jeff David ; Letter to Nanao Sakaki ; How to make good baked salmon from the river / Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Tlingit -- Plantation non-song / Leialoha Perkins, Kanaka Maoli -- Forgotten coyote stories / Vince Wannassay, Umatilla -- Chief Leschi of the Nisqually ; Center Moon's little brother ; The art of clay / Duane Niatum, Lkallum -- Spirit moves / Fred Bigjim, Iñupiaq -- Indian education blues / Ed Edmo, Shoshone-Bannock -- Battle won is lost / Phillip William George, Nez Perce -- Make rope / Imaikalani Kalahele, Kanaka Maoli -- Clouds, trees & ocean, North Kauai / Michael McPherson, Kanaka Maoli -- Uluhaimalama / Mahealani Perez-Wendt, Kanaka Maoli -- Hawaiians eat fish / Wayne Kaumualii Westlake, Kanaka Maoli -- Hawaiʻi '89 / Dana Naone Hall, Kanaka Maoli -- Spirit of brotherhood / Andrew Hope III, Tlingit -- An agony of place ; Night is a sharkskin drum ; Koʻolauloa / Haunani-Kay Trask, Kanaka Maoli -- Mythology / Earle Thompson, Yakima -- The housing poem / Dian Million, Tanana Athabascan -- In chimayo ; Images of salmon and you / Gloria Bird, Spokane -- Piksinñaq / Elizabeth "Sister Goodwin" Hope, Iñupiaq -- The doors of the sea / Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Samoan -- Charlene / Joe Balaz, Kanaka Maoli -- Ax̲ Tl'aa ; Potlatch ducks ; Grief's anguish / Diane L'x̲eis' Benson, Tlingit -- At the door of the native studies director / Robert Davis Hoffman, Tlingit -- Weaving ; Translation of blood quantum / Elizabeth Woody, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs -- The summer of black widows ; The powwow at the end of the world / Sherman Alexie, Spokane -- The fate of Inupiaq-like kingfisher ; No fishing on the point / DG Nanouk Okpik, Iñupiaq -- Hear the dogs crying / Christy Passion, Kanaka Maoli -- He mele aloha no ka niu ; Ka ʻOlelo / Brandy Nãlani McDougall, Kanaka Maoli -- Variations on an admonition ; Nunaqtigiit / Joan Kane, Iñupiaq -- Letters from an island / Lehua M. Taitano, CHamoru -- A small secluded valley ; After self-help / Cedar Sigo, Suquamish -- The ecology of subsistence / Cathy Tagnak Rexford, Iñupiaq -- Kissing the opelu / Donavan Kūhiō Colleps, Kanaka Maoli -- ginen the micronesian kingfisher (i sibek) / Craig Santos Perez, CHamoru -- Canoe launching into the gaslit sea / Ishmael Hope, Tlingit, Iñupiaq -- Fifth saint, sixth & seventh / Carrie Ayaġaduk Ajanen, Iñupiaq -- Anatomy of a wave / Abigail Chabitnoy, Koniag, Tangirnaq -- Smoke screen / Noʻu Revilla, Kanaka Maoli, Tahitian -- A poem for the háawtnin' & héwlekipx [The holy ghost of you, the space & thin air] / Michael Wasson, Nimíipuu, Nez Perce -- Kumulipo / Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Kanaka Maoli
Southwest and west. "I'm here to make a poem" / by Deborah A. Miranda -- The Indian requiem / Arsenius Chaleco, Yuma -- Indian office / Carlos Montezuma, Yavapai-Apache -- Yaqui deer song / Don Jesús Yoilo'i, Yaqui -- The universe sings / Frank LaPena, Nomtipom Wintu -- The dolphin walking stick / Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez, Chumash, Tohono O'Odham, Pima -- Laguna ladies luncheon / Paula Gunn Allen, Laguna -- My father's song ; Indian guys at the bar ; Selection from From Sand Creek / Simon Ortiz, Acoma -- Miracle hill / Emerson BlackHorse Mitchell, Diné -- Skinology ; This is the time of grasshoppers and all that I see is dying / Adrian C. Louis, Lovelock Paiute -- Lesson in fire / Linda Noel, Koyongk'awi Maidu -- Where mountain lion lay down with deer ; Long time ago / Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna -- Earthquake weather / Janice Gould, Koyongk'awi Maidu -- The wall / Anita Endrezze, Yaqui -- Bury me wiith a band ; Ocean power / Ofelia Zepeda, Tohono O'Odham -- When the moon died ; No parole today / Laura Tohe, Diné -- Blue horses rush in ; Hills Brothers coffee ; This is how they were placed for us / Luci Tapahonso, Diné -- I am not a witness ; mesa Verde / Deborah A. Miranda, Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen -- Saad / Rex Lee Jim, Diné -- My mother returns to Calaboz / Margo Tamez, Lipan Apache -- Assignment 44 ; First woman / Esther G. Belin, Diné -- A stong male rain / Hershman R. John, Diné -- Ndé'isdzán ["two of me"] / Crisosto Apache, Miscalero Apache, Chricahua Apache, Diné -- I still eat all of my meals with a mussel shell / Shaunna Oteka McCovey, Yurok, Karuk -- from Flood song ; from Dissolve ; The caravan / Sherwin Bitwui, Diné -- To see letters ; Empty set / Orlando White, Diné -- A new language / Casandra López, Cahuilla/Tongva/Luiseño -- Stonewall to Standing Rock / Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Mescalero and Lipan Apache -- If nothing, the land / bojan Louis, Diné -- Sonnet for my wrist ; Rain scald / Tacey M. Atsitty, Diné -- It was the animals ; When my brother was an Aztec / Natalie Diaz, Mojave/Gila River -- from Nature poem / Tommy Pico, Kumeyaay -- Drunktown / Jake Skeets, Diné
Southeast. Renewal / by Jennifer elise Foerster -- Evening song 93 / Choctaw -- Song fo the Choctaw girl / Peter Perkins Pitchlynn, Choctaw -- Sequoyah, Joshua Ross, Cherokee -- Literary day among the birds / Lily Lee, Cherokee -- To Miss Vic / John Gunter Lipe, Cherokee -- The white man wants the Indian's home / James Harris Guy, Chickasaw -- The red man's burden / J.C. Duncan, Cherokee -- October / Evalyn Callahan Shaw, Mvskoke -- To a hummingbird ; Tulledega ; To allot, or not to allot / Alexander Pose, Mvskoke -- To class '95 / Samuel Sixkiller, Cherokee -- Inauguration day / Stella LeFlore Carter, Chickasaw -- Sippokni Sia / Winnie Lewis Gravitt, Choctaw -- Sentenced / Ruth Margaret Muskrat Bronson, Cherokee -- A letter / Lynn Riggs, Cherokee -- Mind over matter ; The sharp-breasted snake ; Medicare / Louis Little Coon Oliver, Mvskoke -- Fallen leaves ; The poet / Mary Cornelia Hartshorne, Choctaw -- To frighten a storm : Combing / Gladys Cardiff, Eastern Band Cherokee -- Landing ; Blessings ; The history of fire / Linda Hogan, Chickasaw -- Anumpa Bok Lukfi Hilha (Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek) / Phillip Carroll Morgan, Choctaw, Chickasaw -- Simplicity / Moses Jumper Jr., Seminole -- Noble savage sees a therapist ; Ishki, mother, upon leaving the Choctaw homelands, 1831 ; The list we make / LeAnne Howe, Choctaw -- Running, She had some horses ; Rabbit is up to tricks / Joy Harjo, Mvskoke -- Water as a sense of place / Kim Shuck, Cherokee -- A proposal / Chip Livingston, Mvskoke -- Trespassing / Marianne Aweagon Broyles, Cherokee -- A Creek woman beside Lake Ontario / Stacy Pratt, Mvskoke -- Sun perch ; The carnival / Santee Frazier, Cherokee -- Relic ; Leaving Tulsa / Jennifer Elise Foerster, Mvskoke -- Nanih Waiya Cave / Lara Mann, Choctaw -- Outroduction / by LeAnne Howe.
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