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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AMERICAN INDIANS Matches Found: 298 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BARROOM FRAGMENT, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was talking, / 'I invited her to las vegas Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A BUFFALO DANCE AT SANTO DOMINGO, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn came Last Line: Our breast and forehead with the turquoise sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Native Americans; New Mexico; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A CHIPPEWA LEGEND, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old chief, feeling now well-nigh his end Last Line: Ugly and fierce, to hide among the woods. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A CRY FROM AN INDIAN WIFE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My forest brave, my red-skin love, farewell Last Line: Perhaps the white man's god has willed it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Marriage; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; War; Worry; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A DANCE FOR RAIN (AT COCHITI, NEW MEXICO), by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may never see rain, unless you see Last Line: Rain, rain in cochiti! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Cochiti, New Mexico; Dancing & Dancers; Hopi Indians; Native Americans; Rain; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States A DEAL IN REAL ESTATE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Barendt cuyler, indian trader Last Line: "brother -- let us dream no more!" Subject(s): Dreams; Native Americans; New York City - Dutch Period; Smoking; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A LEGEND OF THE DELAWARES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air is dark with cloud on cloud Last Line: "should wield the weapons of the sky." Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A POEM FROM BOULDER RIDGE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skeleton of a teepee stood on boulder ridge Subject(s): Houses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A PROPHECY (1764), by ARTHUR LEE Poem Text First Line: Ere five score years have run their tedious rounds Last Line: T is all they ask -- or all a crown can give. Subject(s): Carlisle, Pennsylvania; French & Indian Wars; Native Americans; Prophecy & Prophets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A SAVAGE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dixon, a choctaw, twenty years of age Last Line: And drops without a moan: dixon is dead. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A SEMINOLE, by FRANCES BALLMAN Poem Text First Line: A seminole died with the sun in the west Last Line: A seminole died. Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A VERY EXCEPTIONAL ESKIMO, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I tell you a few of the things I know Last Line: If he didn't, the cold might freeze his dreams! Subject(s): Arctic; Eskimos; Native Americans; Snow; Winter; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A WHIMSY, by EDNA W. PIKERINE Poem Text First Line: In the fall when woods resound Last Line: And hear its new-born cry. Subject(s): Autumn; Native Americans; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A YOUNG CHIEF RETURNS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I have returned unto my ancient mesa Last Line: "I am home!" Subject(s): Homecoming; Native Americans; Travel; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips AFTER IKKYU: 25, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Talked to the god of hosts about the native american Last Line: Half-human bears still dance in imperfect circles. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Environment; Native Americans; Prayer; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AFTER THE CAMANCHES, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saddle, saddle, saddle! / mount and gallop away! Last Line: A scalp on either side! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AFTER THE COMANCHES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Saddle! Saddle! Saddle! Last Line: "bring her home on the crupper, / a scalp on either side" Subject(s): Gold;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America ALICE CORBIN IS GONE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Henderson, Alice Corbin (1881-1949); Native Americans; Translating & Interpreting; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ALIVE, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hum of the car Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ALL WINTER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In winter I remember Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AMBITION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They brought the mighty chief to town Last Line: "me heap big chief, me look like hell." Subject(s): Comedy; Native Americans; Racism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry AMERICAN INDIAN ART: FORM AND TRADITION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were we not fine Last Line: Bright glance, where is our song now / our sorrow Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AN ESKIMELODRAMA; [OR THE ESKAPADE OF AN ESKAMAID], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Mid greenland's polar ice and snow Last Line: Is thus kept green in verse by me Subject(s): Eskimos;greenland;ice;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America AN INDIAN AT THE BURIAL PLACE OF HIS FATHERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the spot I came to seek Last Line: May be a barren desert yet. Variant Title(s): An Indian At The Burying-place Of His Fathers Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AN INDIAN LULLABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "rock-a-by, rock-a-by, little brown baby" Last Line: "hush-a-by, rock-a-by, hush-a-by-by" Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America ANCHORAGE, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This city is made of stone, of blood, and fish Last Line: To survive? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; Survival; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Indians Of America; American Indians; AND INDIANS, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They made a word for light when it went out, Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ANGLE OF GEESE, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we adorn / recognition with our speech? Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ANY NEWS FROM ALPHA CENTAURI, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dog suddenly punched the back of his knee with its snout Last Line: All its doors Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Native Americans; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America APAUKEE, THE HALF BREED, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apaukee, the half-breed, rode on the edge of the canyon Last Line: And claws of the coyote could not defile it. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Fate; Love; Native Americans; Tears; Destiny; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ARIZONA POEMS: 6. RAIN IN THE DESERT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge red-buttressed mesa over yonder Last Line: Whirling, extinguishing the last red wisp of light. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Native Americans; Rain; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ARROW MAKER, by CHAPMAN JAMES MILLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Discarded flakes of gleaming amber flint Last Line: The arrow-man each day, for I am he! Subject(s): Arrows; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AS RED MEN DIE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captive! Is there a hell to him like this? Last Line: He bends to deathbut never to disgrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courage; Hostages; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Pride; Valor; Bravery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Self-esteem; Self-respect AT GULL LAKE: AUGUST, 1810, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gull lake set in the rolling prairie Last Line: Knew where she lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Lakes; Native Americans; Nature; Pools; Ponds; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life Last Line: The farmers in the sky and in the nebulae Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 3, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daybreak. The chicha finally explodes Last Line: Tucks up her saffron-colored thighs Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Native Americans; Wine; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America BACK TO ALBANY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: A bird turned loose among the flowers Last Line: Sent back to boost for albany. Subject(s): Albany, New York; Native Americans; Travel; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips BAY POEM, by LANCE HENSON First Line: Where from the watch towers Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America BENEATH RED CLAY, by DORA SANDERS THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: The death-moth hovered over kan-neh-tee Last Line: And god -- in her heart. Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America BETTY ZANE, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women are timid, cower and shrink Last Line: Mingles the blood of betty zane. Subject(s): American Revolution; Fort Henry, Battle Of (1777); Native Americans; Zane, Elizabeth; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America BITTER SWEET, by MARIE TODD Poem Text First Line: Braided locks,' gaunt old cheyenne indian Last Line: "into the skull and gloated, ""much good honey." Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America BLACK EAGLE RETURNS TO ST. JOE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This way and that way measuring Last Line: I was a swift runner whom they tripped. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America BY AN INDIAN GRAVE, by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN Poem Text First Line: Sleep on, dead seminole - your bones are chalk Last Line: And we two dream together, seminole. Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Native Americans; Dead, The; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America BY THE RIVERSIDE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I lived at a riverside Last Line: Only to me. The numbers have not changed. Subject(s): Native Americans; Telephone Directories; Women; Women's Rights; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Feminism CANADIANS AND POTTAWATOMIES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen a loneliness sit Subject(s): Loneliness; Canada; Native Americans; Canadians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CANOE SONG, by IDA STERNFELS Poem Text First Line: Straight as an arrow Last Line: Weaving my burial blanket. Subject(s): Canoes And Canoeing; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CANTO 25; THE WAR CLOUD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five happy years have told their flight Last Line: And all the coming storm await. Subject(s): Heroism; Nations; Native Americans; Prophecy & Prophets; War; Heroes; Heroines; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CANTO 27; WA-BE-NO-KA, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A night upon the battle field Last Line: And freely sheds her grateful tears. Subject(s): Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Night; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bedtime CANTO 9; THE GREAT TURTLE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When fierce beset with dire alarms Last Line: A charnel house of human bones. Subject(s): Hate; Islands; Mythology; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CAPTIVITY, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stream was swift, and so cold Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CARTAGENA, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain and thunder beat down and flooded the streets Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CAT-TAILS, by KATHERINE TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Then thousand regal cat-tails stand Last Line: Once held the drifting, desert sands at bay. Subject(s): Native Americans; Prairies; South Dakota; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women Writers; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CHAHINKAPA, by F. H. MCMAHON Poem Text First Line: Men of the sioux whose bodies are peacefully resting Last Line: After the builder a home where his children abide. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CHANT TO A WERE-BEAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "were-bear, why are you not in hell?" Subject(s): Animals;bears;mythology - Native American;native Americans;superstition; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America CHIEF LESCHI OF THE NISQUALLY, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He awoke this morning fram a strange dream [or, uneasily from a dream] Last Line: Little and speak less before he hangs. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CHINOOK, by THELMA HILL WARD Poem Text First Line: Moonlight shaking, low waves breaking Last Line: Die a little death. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America COMES THE INDIAN, by ETHEL ESTES Poem Text First Line: Comes the indian to his dancing Last Line: Comes the indian to his dancing. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CULTURE AND THE UNIVERSE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two nights ago Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America DEDICATED TO A YOUNG LADY REPRESENTING THE INDIAN RACE AT HOWARD UNIV, by ALFRED ISLAY WALDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While sitting in my room kind miss Last Line: As here have ever been. Subject(s): Howard University; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America DEERFIELD: 1703, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the break of day the minister was awakened Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; Native Americans; Massacres; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America DO NOT SPEAK KERESAN TO A MESCALERO APACHE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not speak Last Line: Is unmarked. Subject(s): Apache Indians; Conversation; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America DRIVING IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On humming rubber along this white concrete Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Recessions; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America DUST-BOWL, by RUTH E. ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Indian / watch white-man chop trees Last Line: Now earth go like smoke. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America EARLY AMERICAN, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From brazil to miami to a roadside motel to a super billboard Last Line: The pale hands of our brothers upon us Subject(s): Billboards; Native Americans; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America EL VAQUERO, by LUCIUS HARWOOD FOOTE Poem Text First Line: Tinged with the blood of aztec lands Last Line: Greek of the greeks he must remain. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ELEGY TO THE SIOUX, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vase was made of clay Last Line: Out of the sky into montana... Subject(s): Birth; Genocide; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Native Americans; Small Pox; Child Birth; Midwifery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America EMPTY WORDS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He describes eagle feathers with his hands Last Line: Empty hands, and words, empty words. Subject(s): Conversation; Deafness; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America FAMILY REUNION, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ray's third new car in half as many years Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America FOOT-PRINTS, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Shadows of lilac echo the form Last Line: Unchanging, changingyou remain. Subject(s): Footprints; Native Americans; Shadows; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America FOUR MATRICES: 2. COUNTING ARIZONA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amphora in rocks. Kachina of fur and rust. The land Last Line: Mexico and peopless. And too much sun. I want to go home. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Native Americans; Nature; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America FUNERAL OF MAZEEN; THE LAST OF THE ... MOHEGAN NATION, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid the trodden turf is an open grave Last Line: And plead for your pale-brow'd brother's guilt. Subject(s): Funerals; Hope; Native Americans; Sin; Soul; Burials; Optimism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GHOSTS AT KE SON, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the bullets Last Line: The faces, the faces of the strangers are the same Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GLYPHS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: & the code / public record stopped midsentence Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Tongues; Words; Vocabulary; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GRACE, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of wind and her wild ways the year we had nothing to lose and lost it anyway Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GRAND RAPIDS, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild roved the indians once Last Line: Is the city of grand rapids. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GREAT IS DIANA OF THE MANNAHATTOES!, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Northward! Northward! Goddess of the tower Last Line: The smoke of sacrifice! Subject(s): Hudson River; Native Americans; New York City; Ships & Shipping; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HARLEM, MONTANA: JUST OFF THE RESERVATION, by JAMES WELCH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We need no runners here. Booze is law Last Line: Help us, oh god, we're rich. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indian HOSPITALITY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay low yon impious trappings on the ground Last Line: And deems of other bosoms by her own. Subject(s): Hospitality; Native Americans; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pioneers; U.s. - Colonial Period; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America HOT AFTERNOONS HAVE BEEN IN MONTANA, by ELI SIEGEL Poem Text First Line: Quiet and green was the grass of the field Last Line: Giving world. Subject(s): Montana; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America HOW TO WRITE THE GREAT AMERICAN INDIAN NOVEL, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All of the indians must have tragic features: tragic noses, eyes, and arms. Last Line: All of the white people will be indians and all of the indians will be ghosts Subject(s): Native Americans; Novels & Novelists; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America I THINK OVER AGAIN MY SMALL ADVENTURES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And the light that fills the world Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America IN PRAISE OF NECESSITY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nostalgia of old men Last Line: That makes dead meat of the years Subject(s): Genocide; Native Americans; Progress; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America IN THE LONGHOUSE, ONEIDA MUSEUM, by ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Houses of five fires, you never raised me Last Line: Without oil, hasp or uranium. Alternate Author Name(s): Hill, Roberta Subject(s): Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIAN GIRL'S BURIAL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice upon the prairies Last Line: As here they mourn for thee. Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Tuberculosis; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Consumption (pathology) INDIAN GIVER, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life, you have taken all you ever gave me Last Line: You cannot take away your gift of death! Subject(s): Death; Life; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIAN LOVE SONG, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak low to me, my love, speak low Last Line: Let them not hear! Speak low, my sweet! Subject(s): Love; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIAN LULLABY, by CLAUDE BRYAN Poem Text First Line: Sleep, my little papoose, sleep on Last Line: Should be thy lullaby. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIAN LULLABY, by CHARLES MYALL Poem Text First Line: Rock-a-by, hush-a-by, little papoose Last Line: Till time when the morning light gleams. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIAN MOUND, by IDA LITTLE HALE Poem Text First Line: Beside the road a crumbling old shell mound Last Line: The mound serenely dreams while years go by. Subject(s): Graves; Native Americans; Tombs; Tombstones; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIAN NAMES, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye say they all have passed away - that noble race Last Line: Though ye destroy their dust. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIAN REQUIEM, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A song of their own they were singing Last Line: Alas, that their wild song is done. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIAN RUG WEAVER, by HORTENSE SMITH MACDOUGALL Poem Text First Line: Weaving, weaving the long hours away Last Line: Weaving, weaving! Subject(s): Native Americans; Weavers And Weaving; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIAN SLEEP-SONG, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zhoo ... Zhoo, zhoo Last Line: Sleep softly till dawn. Subject(s): Animals; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIAN SONG, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadowy-petalled, like the lotus, loom the Last Line: Where in worlds of lovely silence fade in one the starry race. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Brahma; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIAN SUMMER, by ROLLIN L. SMITH Poem Text First Line: Great white father! Won't you listen? Last Line: Save us from the setting sun? Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIAN WOMAN'S DEATH-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down a broad river of the western wilds Last Line: "one moment, and that realm is ours. On, on, dark rolling stream!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Drowning; Native Americans; Women; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIANS, by NANETTE NICHOLS COBB Poem Text First Line: Hear the beating of the tom - tom Last Line: Death does not restrict their bounds. Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIANS, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They wear the squash-flower cut in silver Last Line: The rainbow to the soul. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIANS (DEERFIELD MEMORIAL HALL), by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dulcimer, play me a little tune Last Line: Praise be for the story's end! Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; Massacres; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIANS SELL THINGS ALONG OUR STREETS, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON Poem Text First Line: Watercress from a wind-blown mountain fall Last Line: With wind-flowers in my exquisite bouquet. . . . Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Native Americans; Salespersons; Streets; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Selling; Avenues INSCRIPTION, FOR BAS-RELIEF BY PRESTON POWERS, DENVER PARK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eagle, stooping from yon snow-blown peaks Last Line: Their graven semblance in the eternal stone. Subject(s): Bison; Native Americans; Statues; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America IOWAY TO IOWA, by MAY M. HUNT Poem Text First Line: From his primal home in the woodland Last Line: For their chief so brave and true. Subject(s): Iowa; Names; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America JASON LEE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: A cry from the gloom of the western wilds! Last Line: The stalwart jason lee. Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); West (u.s.); Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Native Americans - Removal; Southwest; Pacific States JOHNNY APPLESEED; A BALLAD OF THE OLD NORTHWEST, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A midnight cry appalls the gloom Last Line: In god's grand greenwood chapel. Subject(s): Appleseed, Johnny; Chapman, John (1774-1845); Middle West; Native Americans; Patriotism; Pioneers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America JULOT THE APACHE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've heard of julot the apache, and gigolette, him mome Last Line: "say! -- it's the first communion of that little girl of mine." Subject(s): Apache Indians; Native Americans; Paris, France; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America LAKE SARATOGA; AN INDIAN LEGEND, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady stands beside the silver lake Last Line: "the pale-faced woman cannot hold her tongue!" Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America LAMENT FOR THE DORSETS, by ALFRED WELLINGTON PURDY Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Animal bones and some mossy tent rings Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Al Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America LARANOWA, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Laranowa of the mohawks, lovely iroquois Last Line: Laranowa of the mohawks, lovely iroquois! Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America LIKE MEN OF OLD, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: There was three of them trapped in an old chateau Last Line: Of the dead men three who had held them hard till the flag came over the hill! Subject(s): Native Americans; World War I; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; First World War LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, OKLAHOMA, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have never lived on the reservation Last Line: Lifts his pony, flings it at the moon. Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Solitude; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Loneliness LITTLE ESKIMO, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Little eskimo, are you Last Line: Like to live in our land, too? Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Summer; Travel; Vacation; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips LITTLE MOCCASINS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come out, o little moccasins, and frolic on the snow! Last Line: (o fiddle mine! The tears to-night are drumming on your breast.) Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America LOCAL COLOR, by LOIS RANDOLPH Poem Text First Line: The navajo shepherd tends his sheep Last Line: She-tha-sie. Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Tourists; Writing & Writers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America LOST HERITAGE, by JENNIE HARRIS OLIVER Poem Text First Line: Where once my prairies were, waist-high, in blue stem Last Line: O, white man, listen! The red earth is mine! Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America LOVE SONG OF THE OMAHAS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fades the star of morning Last Line: Hear thy lover's cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Longing; Love; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America LULLABY OF THE IROQUOIS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest Last Line: Little brown baby of mine, go to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Babies; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Songs MAGIC FOX, by JAMES WELCH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They shook the green leaves down Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MAGIC WORDS (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the very earliest time Last Line: Nobody could explain this: / that's the way it was Subject(s): Cosmology;creation;eskimos;mythology - Native American;native Americans;religion; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America;theology MARCH-PATROL OF THE NAKED HEROES, by HERBERT S. GORMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hoofs of thunder, fetlocks splashed with sunrise Last Line: In the morning. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MIANTOWONA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long ere the pale face Last Line: "miantowona!" Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MONUMENT MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Last Line: Is call the mountain of the monument. Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Grief; Incest; Legends; Native Americans; Suicide; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MOODS, by DAVID O'NEIL Poem Text First Line: On a lone hillside Last Line: To your madness. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MORTIFICATION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone dies & / then a cat dies Subject(s): Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MUSKOKA, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chide not the leisure of this drifting moon Last Line: Her rugged grass and slow and hardy flowers. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America NAVAJO LEGEND, by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Is it true, mother, that the mountain sun Last Line: By god-like boys. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Deserts; Food & Eating; Horses; Mothers; Mountains; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America NAVAJO LOVE SONG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We are riding out in the morning Last Line: Na-na-litch, na-litch, nandeen! Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Love; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America NEITHER SPIRIT NOR BIRD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Leaping under the willows Subject(s): Desire;flutes;hearts;love;native Americans;relationships; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America NEW MEXICAN MOUNTAIN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the indians dancing to help the young corn at taos pueblo Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; New Mexico; Tourists; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America NEW NATION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain of white ice Subject(s): United States - History; Native Americans; Massacres; Slavery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Serfs NIGHT OUT, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen you in the palms of my hands Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Native Americans; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America NORTH AMERICAN DEATH SONG, by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day Last Line: And thy son, o alknomook, has scorned to complain. Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America OKLAHOMA, by DAISY LEMON COLDIRON Poem Text First Line: A hungry kiowa Last Line: It is -- oklahoma! Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America OLD CHARLEY, by KATHE HEIN Poem Text First Line: Old charley is dead now Last Line: Even his soul. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America OLD SQUAW HILL, by LUCY JONES TYSELL Poem Text First Line: Before the feet of white men trod Last Line: A sentinel to guard the plain. Subject(s): Native Americans; Native Americans - Wars; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ON THE BIG HORN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years are but half a score Last Line: Break forth into praise of god! Subject(s): Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Native Americans; Rain-in-the-face (indian Chief); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even though it happened as long ago as the late fifties, I could still draw Subject(s): Native Americans; Graves; Smoking; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tombs; Tombstones; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ONE WORD, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The arizona sky is a bowl of one word blue Last Line: America? Subject(s): Apache Indians; Arizona; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America OSAWATOMIE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know how he came Last Line: And the fool killers had a laugh Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Native Americans; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America OSCEOLA, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When his hour for death had come Last Line: (and here a line in memory of his name and death.) Subject(s): Native Americans; Osceola, Leader Of Seminoles (1804-1838); Social Protest; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America OUR ABORIGINES, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the forests as they cried Last Line: Fled mournfully away. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America OUR MOTHER POCAHONTAS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Powhatan was conqueror Last Line: Our mother, pocahontas. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); World War I; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; First World War OXAITOQ'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "inland, inland, inland, inland" Last Line: They love me only on account of the food I obtain for them Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America PARAGRAPHS: 9, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the custom of my tribe to be silent Last Line: Indivisible, unvoiced Subject(s): Native Americans; Snow; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America PARALLAX, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kwakwha / askwali Last Line: Whenever, wherever. Subject(s): Hopi Indians; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America POCAHONTAS, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the barren sand Last Line: And breathes a prayer for him. Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America POCAHONTAS [JANUARY 5, 1608], by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wearied arm and broken sword Last Line: Saved a captive englishman. Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America POWWOW, by R. ALICE FIKSDAL Poem Text First Line: Tum, tum, tum, tum! Tum, tum, tum! Last Line: Four ragged chieftains beating on a drum! Subject(s): Bells; Musical Instruments; Native Americans; Singing & Singers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Songs PUEBLO LEGEND, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER Poem Text First Line: The ancient tribes, when they and earth were new Last Line: Carved round a font the image of a snake? Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America RED BUCK BILL, by HENRY T. CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: Red buck bill was a tonkawa Last Line: You can see his grave. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America RED INDIAN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purest of breed of all the tribes Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America RED JACKET, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cooper, whose name is with his country's woven Last Line: Thy name, thy fame, thy passions, and thy throne! Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Variant Title(s): On A Portrait Of A Red Jacket;to A Portrait Of A Red Jacket Subject(s): Native Americans; Red Jacket. Seneca Chief (1756-1830); Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America REDWING, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The readers of poetry, the writers of Last Line: Of the monster Subject(s): Native Americans; Birds; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America RETRIBUTION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know where the timid fawn abides' Last Line: "from maquon, the fond and the brave." Variant Title(s): An Indian Story Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a - captive and wife was she Last Line: "sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a, who led the way to the west!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Clark, William (1770-1838); Explorers; History; Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809); Native Americans; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SAINCLAIRE'S DEFEAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'twas november the fourth, in the year of 'ninety-one" Last Line: "he fell that day amongst the slain, a valiant man was he" Subject(s): "native Americans;ohio;st. Clair, Arthur (1736-1818);" Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SAVAGES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heathen hailed us from the beach Last Line: Who set thy temple on the hill. Subject(s): Murder; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; War; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SAVAGES (TO KHAMA, SEBELE AND BATHOEN), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As stags that o'er some moonlit pasture range Last Line: Mortality shall die? Subject(s): Native Americans; Trade; Wandering & Wanderers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SCHOLARLY PROCEDURE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moves like an indian in the underbrush Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SEA-LOVE (PUGET SOUND INDIAN), by ANNICE CALLAND Poem Text First Line: Harken! The drum-beat of the sea Last Line: O drum-beat of the sea! Subject(s): Native Americans; Puget Sound; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SEMINOLE LULLABY, by EMMA ROBERTS WILSON Poem Text First Line: Sleep, little wood-pigeon Last Line: Est-to-chee, slumber and sleep. Subject(s): Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SEMINOLE SONG CYCLE: INVOCATION TO THE DAWN, by HARRIET LYON LEONARD Poem Text First Line: Sun god, smile the night's shadow away Last Line: Grant us to see thy face. Subject(s): Dawn; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Sunrise; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SEMINOLE SONG CYCLE: LULLABY, by HARRIET LYON LEONARD Poem Text First Line: See that baby star on high Last Line: On my little brown papoose. Subject(s): Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SEMINOLE SONG CYCLE: NOONDAY SONG, by HARRIET LYON LEONARD Poem Text First Line: The noon is hot. Come, let us seek Last Line: In my own staunch canoe. Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SHE HAD SOME HORSES, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Native Americans; Horses; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SHOES, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Here I sit with hard eyes looking at my child Last Line: To suffer torture indian-gauntlet-runner never knew. Subject(s): Native Americans; Pain; Poverty; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Suffering; Misery SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upgrade, past snow-tangled bramble, past Last Line: The dog exploded Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Eskimos; Native Americans; Dead, The; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SILHOUETTE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky-line melts from the russet into blue Last Line: Out mutely that naught else to him remains. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Change; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SIOUX SONGS: A FLYING HORSE (THE SPOTTED HORSE), by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Friend like a flying bird is my horse Last Line: Like a thunderbird streaked with the lightning he flies! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SIOUX SONGS: LAMENT FOR KIMIMLIA-SKA, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: White butterfly, my warrior son is dead Last Line: Mourn with me, o my tribe, for he is dead! Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SIOUX SONGS: SIYAKA TO HIS HORSE, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: We are in danger, the crows are surrounding us! Last Line: Here is a horse that has aided a man! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SONG OF THE CHICKASAH WIDOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the voice of my husband that came on the gale Last Line: And I shall have joy in revenge. Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Revenge; Vengeance; Widows & Widowers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SONG OF THE EVIL SPIRIT OF THE WOODS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the vapour hot and damp Last Line: Rankling all, the wretch expires! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Forests; Native Americans; New York State; Travel; Woods; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips SONG OF THE FULL CATCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "here's good wind, here's sweet wind" Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;love;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SONG OF THE HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How joyous his neigh! Last Line: How joyous his neigh! Subject(s): Animals;horses;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SONG OF THE INDIAN MOTHER, by JAMES GOWDY CLARK Poem Text First Line: Gently dream, my darling child Last Line: Lullaby, my gentle boy, etc. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SONG OF WELCOME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ai, ai, my small red man" Subject(s): Babies;creation;mothers;mythology - Native American;native Americans; Infants;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SONG TO THE WANDERER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I cannot stay, I cannot stay" Subject(s): Mythology;mythology - Native American;native Americans;wandering & Wanderers;; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 11. INDIAN ROCK: WISSAHICKON, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the troubled city's sights and sounds Last Line: Of these fair hills and vales and streams, so long their right. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SPIT, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chipewyans play it Subject(s): Native Americans; Games; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements STATE FOR STATE, WITH ALL ATTENDANTS, WHO WOULD CHANGE? NOT, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some in the godspeed, the susan c. Variant Title(s): Enough Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SUMMER SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "aya!/ ayaya, it is beautiful, beautiful it is out-doors when the summer comes" Last Line: "ayaya, ayaya, aya!" Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America THANKSGIVING, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's sweeter than at the end of a summer's day Subject(s): Native Americans; Thanksgiving Day; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE AMERICAN INDIAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There once were some people called sioux Last Line: "don't think that they made them to ioux / oh! No, they just sold them for bioux" Variant Title(s): The Indian Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America THE ARCHERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stripped to the waist his copper-coloured skin Last Line: Transporting into heaven both maid and man. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Enemies; Hunting; Murder; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Awake! Awake! My gallant friends Last Line: Come gaul or briton; if arrayed / for fight - he'll feel a freeman's blade Subject(s): "harrison, William Henry (1773-1841);middle West;native Americans;tippecanoe, Battle Of (1811);" Midwest;old Northwest;central States;north Central States;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America THE BEAR'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I have taken the woman of beauty Last Line: For her I made this song and for her I sing it Subject(s): Beauty;haida Indians;love;native Americans;women; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America THE BRIDAL OF PENNACOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had been wandering for many days Last Line: Mingled and murmured in that farewell song. Variant Title(s): The White Mountains Subject(s): Brides; Concord, New Hampshire; Native Americans; Rivers; White Mountains, New Hampshire; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE BUFFALO COAT, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see him moving, in his legendary fleece Last Line: Is old and cold in a world his death began Subject(s): Buffaloes; History; Native Americans; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE CAPTIVE'S HYMN (1764), by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The indian war was over Last Line: That morning in carlisle. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Carlisle, Pennsylvania; French And Indian Wars; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE CHIEF'S PRAYER AFTER THE SALMON CATCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o kia-kunae, praise!" Last Line: Priae! Praise! Praise! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;native Americans;salmon; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America THE CHILD OF THE FORESTS; WRITTEN AFTER READING JOHN HUNTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not thy heart far off amidst the wood Last Line: Seek not the deserts and the woods again! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Native Americans; Woods; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE CLIFF OF THE CEDAR TREE, by RICHARD FORSTER Poem Text First Line: Oowan-nanawam-anoon-atroc Last Line: "on the cliff of the cedar tree." Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE CORN HUSKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the indian lodges, where the bush Last Line: Like the dead husks that rustle through her hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Corn; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Metaphor; Native Americans; Weariness; Work; Workers; Similes; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Fatigue THE CROSS IN THE WILDERNESS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent and mournful sat an indian chief Last Line: Deep thoughts and sad, yet full of holiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Native Americans; Tombs; Tombstones; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE DEATH OF COLMAN, by THOMAS FROST Poem Text First Line: Twas juet spoke - the half moon's mate Last Line: One choking thought -- the loneliness! Subject(s): Hudson, Henry (1550-1611); Native Americans; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness THE DEATH OF CRAZY HORSE, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now 'twas done Last Line: These many grasses and these many snows. Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States THE ENDANGERED ROOTS OF A PERSON, by WENDY ROSE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember lying awake Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE EXCAVATION, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this dry, stubble field Last Line: In this dry, stubble field. Subject(s): Archeology; Artifacts; Curiosities & Wonders; Fathers; Native Americans; Old Age; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE FIRE-MAIDEN AND THE SNOW-PEAKS; AN INDIAN LEGEND OF THE COLUMBIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loowit, the beautiful maiden Last Line: Rolls proudly at their side. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Columbia River (north America); Fire; Legends, Native American; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE FOUNTAIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Traveller! On thy journey toiling Last Line: Of the indian and his well. Subject(s): Fountains; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE FOUR WINDS (A SENECA LULLABY), by LUDWIG VON STOLZ MAYER Poem Text First Line: Little gahana, hush! Last Line: Neoga, the fawn, is near. Subject(s): Native Americans; Seneca Indians; Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE FUNERAL TREE OF THE SOKOKIS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around sebago's lonely lake Last Line: The indian's fitting monument! Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Sebago (lake), Maine; Trees; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE GHOSTS OF THE BUFFALOES, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night at black midnight I woke Last Line: Good-night, good-night...Good-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Buffaloes; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE GRASS ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, long long" Last Line: And the grass on the mountain Subject(s): Grass;mountains;native Americans; Hills;downs (great Britain);indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America THE GUIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rode across the level plain Last Line: "will I be drunken!' is it so?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Leadership; Memory; Native Americans; Nature; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE HALF-BREED (ON A JOURNEY WITH HIS WHITE RELATIVES), by AGNES MARIE SERUM Poem Text First Line: Let them push on and with them that spirit Last Line: Our sires were buried in this prairie sod. Subject(s): Native Americans; South Dakota; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the rose gold westland, its yellow prairies roll Last Line: Would fain sail westward unto you. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Hunting; Native Americans; Nature; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE HOME COMING (AFTER THE DEATH OF BUFFALO BILL), by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They have waited over yonder through the long Last Line: Friends! Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917); Death; Native Americans;" Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE HURON'S ADDRESS TO THE DEAD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, thou wert strong in youth Last Line: Rest in the bower of delight! Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Funerals; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; U.s. - History; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INDIAN, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing by the shore of the great bitter water Last Line: Are empty. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INDIAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still westward with the lessening light ye go Last Line: "each buried seed is hastening to rise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INDIAN BURYING GROUND, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In spite of all the learned have said Last Line: To shadows and delusions here. Subject(s): Americans; Cemeteries; Native Americans; United States; Graveyards; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America THE INDIAN CHIEF AND CONCONAY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: The indian chieftain is far away Last Line: With its dark and jealous shade. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INDIAN CORN PLANTER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He needs must leave the trapping and the chase Last Line: With fostering richness, mothers every grain. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Hunting; Labor & Laborers; Native Americans; Plants; Hunters; Work; Workers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Planting; Planters THE INDIAN DANCER, by ANNA TILLMAN BOYD Poem Text First Line: O I'm an indian dancing man Last Line: And dance as only indians can! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INDIAN GONE!, by JOSIAH D. CANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By night I saw the hunter's moon Last Line: It answered me! Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INDIAN HUNTER, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, why does the white-man follow my path Last Line: Who never did harm to him. Variant Title(s): Song Of The Red Indian Subject(s): Native Americans; Racism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE INDIAN MASSACRE, FR. ACADIA, by JOSEPH HOWE (1804-1873) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For them no stately canopy is spread Last Line: To charm the list'ning ear, or touch the heart. Subject(s): Acadia; Massacres; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INDIAN OF SAN SALVADOR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time the countless arrow-heads of light Last Line: "shall pass in silence to a deeper shade." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Native Americans; San Salvador, El Salvador; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INDIAN WITH HIS DEAD CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of the midnight Last Line: My father's path I tread. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Native Americans; Death - Babies; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INDIAN'S GRAVE, by GEORGE J. MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Bright are the heavens, the narrow bay serene Last Line: By whom the heathen unregarded dies? Subject(s): Graves; Native Americans; Tombs; Tombstones; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INDIAN'S REVENGE; SCENE IN THE LIFE OF A MORAVIAN MISSIONARY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was that the light from some lone,swift canoe Last Line: Burning on high in thy majestic heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Missionaries & Missions; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INDIAN'S WELCOME TO THE PILGRIM FATHERS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above them spread a strange sky Last Line: Say, who shall welcome thee? Subject(s): Americans; Native Americans; Pilgrim Fathers; United States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America THE INDIANS, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We call them savage. Oh, be just! Last Line: Their children go -- to die! Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INDIANS ON ALCATRAZ, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through time their sharp features have softened and blurred Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE ISLE OF FOUNTS; AN INDIAN TRADITION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of the stranger! Wouldst thou take Last Line: Oh! Seek thou not the fountain isle! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE LAMENT OF THE OUTALISSI, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I could weep! - the oneyda chief Last Line: The death-song of an indian chief! Variant Title(s): Dirge Of Outalissi Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE LAST CHIEF, by DEAN IRE Poem Text First Line: Nani-bo-jou! Nani-bo-joi! Last Line: Where is your secret place? Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE LAST MEETING OF POCAHONTAS AND THE GREAT CAPTAIN [JUNE, 1616], by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a stately hall at brentford Last Line: "take my hand, and let us follow the great captain to his queen." Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Smith, John (1580-1631); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE MAN FROM WASHINGTON, by JAMES WELCH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The end came easy for most of us Subject(s): Men; Native Americans; War; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE MARRIAGE OF POCAHONTAS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These episodes are taken Last Line: Uttering cries that are almost human Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE MARRIAGE OF POCAHONTAS [APRIL 5, 1614], by MRS. M. M. WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: That balmy eve, within a trellised bower Last Line: Shall raise the choral hymn from eve till morn. Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Rolfe, John (1585-1622); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE MARSHES, by MABEL WARD RUDD Poem Text First Line: Where, through rank thatch, the grasping sea has put Last Line: To see the last trace of the marshes pass? Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Native Americans; Swamps; Urban Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE MISSION, by JUNE POWER REILLY Poem Text First Line: A monk in brown cloth Last Line: A new home for the indians, a new god. Subject(s): Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE MOOSE CALL, by VAUGHN H. KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: The full moon rays streak 'cross the lake Last Line: "then tomah whispers -- ""shoot, much shoot!" Subject(s): Hunting; Moon; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Indians stood on a hill in bath and watched Last Line: Into tomorrow. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge; Moths; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Women; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians THE OLD BUFFALO TRAIL, by ISABEL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: On the old buffalo trail, I'm glad this autumn day Last Line: O, buffalo trail, what legends and what marvels you could tell! Subject(s): Autumn; Native Americans; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Paths; Trails THE OLD CHICKASAH TO HIS GRANDSON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now go to the battle, my boy Last Line: Till the steps of thy coming I see. Subject(s): Duty; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Native Americans; War; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE OLD INDIAN, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We walked one morning in the long ago Subject(s): Old Age; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear an ancient indian legend told in many a Last Line: "tempest-quelling, stand forever; matchless, changeless, unafraid!" Subject(s): Evil; Legends; Native Americans; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE PASSING INDIAN, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the shore of lonely long ago Last Line: Ere the purple sunset calls thee home. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE PEACE MESSAGE, by BURTON EGBERT STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the door of his hut sat massasoit Last Line: His messenger of peace. Subject(s): Massasoit (d. 1661); Native Americans; Peace; Pilgrim Fathers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE PILOT OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: False,' they said, thy pale-face lover, from the land of waking morn Last Line: Hunters lost upon the plains. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Legends; Love - Cultural Differences; Native Americans; Waiting; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE POWWOW AT THE END OF THE WORLD, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall Last Line: With my tribe during the powwow at the end of the world Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE QUIET WAYS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great god made me a man Last Line: And the great hills that pierce the days. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE QUILL WORKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plains, plains, and the prairie land which the sunlight floods and fills Last Line: Will broider his buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Beauty; Native Americans; Prairies; Trade; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains THE RED MAN SPEAKS, by OLGA HILSEN Poem Text First Line: In that dim and distant past Last Line: "vanquished by the white man's god?" Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE RED-MAN'S ALTAR, by INA SIZER CASSIDY Poem Text First Line: Son of nature, copper-skinned and stalwart Last Line: Distill incense for your devotions. Subject(s): Native Americans; Nature; Spiritual Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE RISING GLORY OF AMERICA, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now shall the adventurous muse attempt a theme Last Line: And future years of bliss alone remain. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Native Americans; Science; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Scientists; America THE ROUSING CANOE SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hide not, hide not" Last Line: "only hide thee, lost enchantress" Subject(s): Canoes And Canoeing;hunting;native Americans; Hunters;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America THE SECOND DEPARTURE OF CUSTER, by MARY BOYNTON COWDREY Poem Text First Line: In phantom form and grand array Last Line: To show a nation how they died. Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A VETERAN'S DAY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I happen to be a veteran Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE SONG OF THE ANCIENT PEOPLE; THE PUEBLO INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the ancient people Last Line: Born with the wind and rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States THE SQUAW MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold Last Line: God bless you, little laughing eyes! I'm glad. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE STRANGE PEOPLE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night I am the doe, breathing Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Native Americans; Sports; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE TOMB OF THE BRAVE; IN COMMEMORATION OF BATTLE ON WABASH, by JOSEPH HUTTON Poem Text First Line: When darkness prevail'd and aloud on the air Last Line: And glory thus bloom o'er the tomb of the brave. Subject(s): Middle West; Native Americans; Tippecanoe, Battle Of (1811); Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE TRAIN DOGS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night and the north Last Line: The wolfish blood in their veins. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Native Americans; Roads; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Paths; Trails THE TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Women; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; THE UNBOUGHT SEMINOLE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old, old man, in thicker shades Last Line: "live on! Live on! Live on!" Subject(s): Leadership; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Wisdom; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE UTE LOVER, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the burning brazen sky Last Line: Lit by the moon. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE VANISHING RED, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is said to have been the last red man Last Line: Oh, yes, he showed john the wheel pit all right Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE VAUDOIS TEACHER [MISSIONARY], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lady fair, these silks of mine are beautiful and rare Last Line: Where the poor and needy of earth are rich in the perfect love of god! Subject(s): Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE WARRIOR CHIEF, by PHEBE JEWELL NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Straight, rigid, bronze, he sat his horse Last Line: And moving the feather in his hair. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE WAY TO WAKONDA; THE GREAT SPIRIT OF THE OMAHA INDIANS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wakonda's way is the way of the wind Last Line: And the land where the loved ones are. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Native Americans; Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE WEAVER, by EFFIE BRUCE HARDY Poem Text First Line: Tired heart, now I shall weave all thy longings Last Line: Blanket of grief, I create thee, alone. Subject(s): Blankets; Death; Grief; Native Americans; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE WILD-BEES, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All along the brazos river Last Line: Was the fertile land of texas. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Native Americans; Pioneers; Texas; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE WOMAN FROM SPIRITWOOD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping from mandan to jamestown Last Line: Before there can be freedom. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States THE WYOMING MASSACRE, by URIAH TERRY Poem Text First Line: Kind heaven, assist the trembling muse Last Line: Of cruel tyranny. Subject(s): American Revolution; Massacres; Native Americans; Wyoming, Pennyslvania; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THEY ACCUSE ME OF NOT TALKING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: North people known for silence. Long Last Line: And the relentless futility of the real? Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THOMPSON'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The book, by george! I'd rather own Last Line: "in zadock thompson's book ""vermont." Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Native Americans; Travel; Vermont; Reading; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips TIME AS MEMORY AS STORY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time; Native Americans; Family Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Relatives TO & FRO, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the train to california Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TO A DEAD PEMBINA WARRIOR, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slumbering warrior-souls, afloat Last Line: To a land of peaceful slumbers and friendly council fires. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TO A MATTABASSETT (A CONNECTICUT INDIAN), by WALTER BARDECK Poem Text First Line: I saw him just before midnight Last Line: So proud and cold, but weeping. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TO CHIEF KAMIAKIN, HAPPILY DEAD, by CLARK EMERY Poem Text First Line: Squaws on the kerosene-sprinkled floor Last Line: Sick and drunk in the county jail. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TO SITTING BULL, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: There is no prophet without honor, save Last Line: Our prairie when injustice is abroad. Subject(s): Messiah; Native Americans; Prisons & Prisoners; Prophecy & Prophets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Convicts TO THE DRIVING CLOUD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gloomy and dark art thou, o chief of the mighty omahas Last Line: Drifts evermore to the west the scanty smokes of thy wigwams! Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TRANSITION, by VIOLA K. SHAPIRO Poem Text First Line: At a fourth of july 'pow-wow' celebration Last Line: From savagery to civilization. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TRINC: PRAISES II, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, when the grand nudes, golden as fields of grain Last Line: Hallelujah! For the people's beer! And for all his comrades: praise! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Native Americans; Ale; Wine; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TROPICA; A FRAGMENT, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis night in a far-off clime Last Line: Rouse her from her dreamy rest! Subject(s): Animals; Hunger; Hunting; Jungles; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TSANKAWI, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men hiked on a loop trail Last Line: "you live, I live, we live." Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TWO MOON TO A JOURNALIST AFTER REHEARSAL: 1898, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought then that the great spirits Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America UNDER THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light as a leaf on the lifting swell Last Line: I shall be deathless when ye are naught! Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; Nature; New York City; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple UTITIA'Q'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "aja, I am joyful; this is good!" Last Line: "I am tired to watching and waking, this is good!" Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America WAR SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here on my breast have I bled! Last Line: I strike for life Subject(s): Native Americans;native Americans - Wars;ojibwa Indians; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America WAR SONG: 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hear my voice, birds of war!" Last Line: Bear your angers to the place of fighting Subject(s): Fights;native Americans;native Americans - Wars;ojibwa Indians;survival; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America WAR SONG: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "from the south they came, birds of war" Last Line: Beyond the enemy's line Subject(s): Native Americans;native Americans - Wars;ojibwa Indians; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America WASHYUMA MOTOR HOTEL, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the cement foundations Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing that says you can't Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America WHERE THE GRIZZLY DWELLS, by JAMES FOX (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: I admire the artificial art of the east Last Line: The indian land, land of the golden west. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Cowboys; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Rocky Mountain Range; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States WIND SONG; OKLAHOMA ANNIVERSARY, APRIL 22, by ZOE AGNES STRATTON TILGHMAN Poem Text First Line: Wind of the prairie, sweeping adown from the hills Last Line: "but these are they who have conquer'd and kept, the people of eighty-nine." Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States WOLVERINE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes sir, it's quite a story though you won'r bwlieve it's true Last Line: "I peered into the facemy god! 'twas poor old wolverine." Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Murder; Native Americans; Prejudice; Salvation; Trapping & Trappers; Wolves; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bias; Intolerance; Traps; Snares; Trappers YELLOW, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wants to be an indian Subject(s): Yellow (color); Native Americans; Race Awareness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America YONNONIDO, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song, a poem of itself - the word itself a dirge Last Line: Then blank and gone and still, and utterly lost. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America YOU CAN START THE POETRY NOW, OR: NEWS FROM CRAZY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I guess all I'm trying to say is I saw crazy horse die for Last Line: Start the poetry!! Start the poetry now!! Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Irony; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America |
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