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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


AKJARTOQ'S SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I take a deep breath
Last Line: Between the first and last hours %of the sun
Subject(s): Eskimos; Hunger; Hunting; Native Americans


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


ANECDOTES, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was fifteen, no mother
Last Line: The fire %went out. In the morning %the baby was dead
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


ANIMAL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the very earliest time
Last Line: All spoke the same language
Subject(s): Animals; Eskimos; Language; Native Americans


ANONYMOUS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe it doesn't matter but
Last Line: Ready to be used for a kayak rib
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


ANONYMOUS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who is it is it death
Last Line: They'll tear off
Subject(s): Death; Eskimos; Native Americans


AT POINT HPOE ON THE CHUKCHI SEA, by SANDRA SCHOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eskimo girls %play hopscotch
Last Line: Against premonitions %of a slide
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


AVANE'S SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just because I hunt and find nothing
Last Line: I saw their muzzles sink deep into the mud
Subject(s): Eskimos; Hunting; Native Americans


BAD WEATHER HUNTING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not even the words I put together balanced perfectly on the tip of my tongue
Last Line: Hunting song ready %useless
Subject(s): Eskimos; Hunting; Native Americans; Weather


BALLAD OF THE BIRD-BRIDE (ESKIMO), by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They never come back, though I loved them well
Last Line: And the skies are blear and grey
Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R.
Subject(s): Birds; Eskimos; Native Americans


BIG VILLAGE, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nome's front street, the manhattan
Last Line: A face blank and cold %as the moon at minus ten
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Travel; Villages


BOARD OF TRADE SALOON, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: 5 p.M., shuffling west
Last Line: An icy view that portends %the nome night's violence
Subject(s): Eskimos; Ice; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Winter


BOY NORQUAT'S SONG: 1, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can bring down
Last Line: To be as strong as they are
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


BOY NORQUAT'S SONG: 2, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can get strong
Last Line: White teeth like theirs
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


CLASS PARTY, NOME, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fourteen people, eight sites
Last Line: I'd written for those who had dropped, %who had earlier dismissed themselves
Subject(s): Eskimos; Exchange Students; Music And Musicians; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Schools


DAY AND NIGHT: HOW THEY CAME TO BE, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: In those times %when just saying a word
Last Line: Following the daytime of the hare
Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


DEAD MAN'S SONG DREAMED BY SOMEONE ALIVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm so happy
Last Line: Every time the sun rolls up %over the heavens
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


DEATH IS INTENDED, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Isn't that what eskimos did when they were old
Last Line: Even the white new hampshire mountains
Subject(s): Death; Eskimos; Ice; Native Americans; Old Age


DEATH SONG FOR AIJUK, DREAMED BY PAULINAQ, by PAULINAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am filled with joy
Last Line: Over the heavens, %ayo, yai, ya
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


DELIGHT IN NATURE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Isn't it delightful
Last Line: The island is so beautiful, %when, driving steadily, %you gain on it
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nature


DELIGHT IN SONG, by PIUVKAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's wonderful %to make up songs
Last Line: Standing like a bright fire %on the plain
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Singing And Singers


DREAM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamt about you last night
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


EARTH AND THE PEOPLE, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The earth was here before the people
Last Line: But we know our land is not the whole world
Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


ESKIMO BABY, by LUCY DIAMOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you were an eskimo baby
Subject(s): Babies; Eskimos; Native Americans


ESKIMO OCCASION, by JUDITH GREEN RODRIGUEZ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am in my eskimo-hunting-song mood
Last Line: Mummy is singing at breakfast and dancing! / so big!
Subject(s): Women; Eskimos


ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Name of a man name of a man
Last Line: Man who sleeps with her
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sounding %she cuts it
Last Line: I have nothing to do
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They hunt the square flippered seal and the whale
Last Line: The young woman because she slept with a man
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give it to me name of the baby
Last Line: Wonderful!
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And his kayak
Last Line: I used to catch it
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let the man turn to me
Last Line: She is pregnant
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm crying I'm able to eat
Last Line: Knife knife teeth mouth clothes %a woman's hip muscles
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


EVENING OF LOCAL POETRY SPONSORED BY THE NOME ARTS COUNCIL, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A spread of reindeer, moose
Last Line: We eat and drink as simply
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets


EYE OF THE COLD, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: First-time nome visitors see history
Last Line: An impenetrable flux of culture and trash- %into winter's dark mirror of gold
Subject(s): Cold; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Tourists; Travel; Winter


FAR INLAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The earth is white far inland
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nature


GIANT BEAR, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: There once was a giant bear
Last Line: Monster one minute, food the next
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


GOING-AROUND-EVENT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A long pole is fixed in the middle of a house
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


GREAT FARTER, by NAKASUK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great farter, they like to say
Last Line: To the smell of fart
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


GREAT SEA HAS SET ME IN MOTION, by UVAVNUK    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


HEAVEN AND HELL, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: And when we die at last
Last Line: But these are the stories that our people tell
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


HOW WE KNOW ABOUT ANIMALS, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was once a wise man
Last Line: And taught us all we know about them
Subject(s): Animals; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


HUNGER, by SAMIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: You, stranger, who only see us happy
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


I AM AFRAID, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Supernatural


I ARISE FROM REST WITH MOVEMENTS SWIFT', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Now whitening in the sky
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


I JOKES, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In nome we say I jokes
Last Line: In nome we say I jokes %at the end of a joke. I jokes
Subject(s): Comedy; Eskimos; Jokes; Laughter; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska


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


I WATCHED THE WHITE DOGS OF THE DAWN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


IGJUGARJUK'S SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I ran over the white spring fields
Last Line: I crouched down %empty-handed
Subject(s): Eskimos; Hunting; Native Americans


IMPROVISED SONG OF JOY, by TAKOMAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lands around my dwelling
Last Line: Make my house grand
Subject(s): Eskimos; Friendship; Native Americans


INNER NOME, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This spirit road of ghost
Last Line: And rich, the sun in love, %past everything but source
Subject(s): Eskimos; Love; Memory; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska


INVISIBLE MEN, by NAKASUK    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a tribe of invisible men
Last Line: And everyone went back to their ordinary lives
Subject(s): Eskimos; Men; Native Americans


KANAIHUAQ'S ATTACK ON UTAHANIA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm here but
Last Line: Couldn't stand up
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Eskimos; Native Americans


KAYAK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over the briny wave I go
Subject(s): Eskimos; Kayaks; Native Americans


KIVKARJUK'S SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm only a small woman
Last Line: They feel silky like the wolf's chin
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Women


LAMENT FOR THE DORSETS, by ALFRED WELLINGTON PURDY    Poem 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


LAMENT FOR THE DORSETS, by ALFRED WELLINGTON PURDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Animal bones and some mossy tent rings
Last Line: The ivory thought %is still warm
Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Al
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


LAST SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How %can I walk on that thing
Last Line: It thinks about me!
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


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


MAGIC WORDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the very earliest time
Last Line: That's the way it was
Subject(s): Eskimos; Language; Men; Native Americans


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


MAGIC WORDS (2), by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the very earliest times
Last Line: With the animals %again
Subject(s): Eskimos; Homosexuality; Native Americans


MAGIC WORDS FOR HUNTING CARIBOU, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You, you caribou
Last Line: Come here
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


MAGIC WORDS FOR HUNTING SEAL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O sea goddess nuliajuk
Last Line: O welcome gift %in the shape of a seal!
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


MAGIC WORDS TO CURE A SICK CHILD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O my tiny child
Last Line: You'll live a long long time
Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Healing; Magic; Native Americans; Parents


MAGIC WORDS TO FEEL BETTER, by NAKASUK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sea gull %who flaps his wings
Last Line: In the air
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


MAGIC WORDS TO STOP BLEEDING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This blood
Last Line: Wipe it off
Subject(s): Blood; Eskimos; Magic; Native Americans


MAN'S SONG ABOUT HIS DAUGHTER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That's %your son? The brother
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


MIDNIGHT, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The time one day bleeds
Last Line: That taps a vein, drains %juice, transfuses
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska


MORNING SONG OF THE WIZARD AUA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I get up to meet the day
Last Line: Toward the dawn whitening
Subject(s): Eskimos; Morning; Native Americans


MOTHER AND CHILD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A pregnant woman brought forth a child
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


MOTHER'S SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's quiet in the house so quiet
Last Line: It is strange if I cry for joy
Subject(s): Eskimos; Mothers; Native Americans


MOTHER'S SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is so still in the house
Last Line: Is it strange if I start to cry with joy?
Subject(s): Christmas; Eskimos; Mothers; Native Americans


MOVED, by UVAVNUK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great sea stirs me
Last Line: It carries me with it, %so I shake with joy
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nature


MY ARMS, THEY WAVE HIGH IN THE AIR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Let me hold my hands under my chin
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


NAME?, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who know, with a little luck
Last Line: By writing you, inhabiting you, %trashing you, releasing you
Subject(s): Eskimos; Heaven; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Writing And Writers


NOME BYPASS ROAD, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The freak november of no snow
Last Line: Of a limitless universe %and I was cycling, thrilled
Subject(s): Eskimos; Frost; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Winter


NOME CALENDAR, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Minus twenty, little wind, my dawdle
Last Line: By timelessness, I began to enter %an easier, more human season
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Solitude; Teaching And Teachers; Winter


NOME GHOST STORY, by SHEILA BUNKER NICKERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eskimos say: the longer dead, %the higher off the ground
Last Line: With screams. Pieces wander %still in ice and wind and words
Subject(s): Death; Eskimos; Native Americans


NOME POST OFFICE, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here where a cold july rain
Last Line: At dawn. Fine, I replied, knowing %I had forever. And forever was now
Subject(s): Cold; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Winter


OLD MAN CRIES OUT INTO THE DRIVING SNOW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cold and mosquitoes
Last Line: This is me really me %me
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Snow


OLD MAN'S SONG, ABOUT HIS WIFE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Husband and wife we loved each other then
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


OLD SONG OF THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE FEAR OF LONELINESS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sitting with friends
Last Line: As mine again
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Solitude


OMATOQ'S SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wanted to take
Last Line: Except that little one
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


ORPINGALIK'S BREATH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have to sing
Last Line: Only my memories are strong
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Singing And Singers


ORPINGALIK'S SONG TO HIS SONG-BROTHER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You I
Last Line: I still see it brother
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Singing And Singers


ORPINGALIK'S SONG: IN A TIME A SICKNESS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My biggest worry is this
Last Line: And the others got nothing at all!
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


ORPINGALIK'S WIFE SINGS ABOUT THEIR SON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I %find
Last Line: I stood wherever I was trembling
Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Native Americans


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


POETRY READING, BREVIG MISSION, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Likely lured by a twenty-dollar cash prize
Last Line: Little, adorable, three-month-old girl's %savings for college and career
Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Poetry Readings; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


POOR MAN'S PRAYER TO THE SPIRITS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fatherless ones
Last Line: Bring me a gift
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Poverty


RESOLUTION, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first january day I wake
Last Line: I'll bury you in a drift, molly. %your blood will come with me
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Resolutions


RUNAWAY, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pretty if you like the mix
Last Line: Into a noon darkness %spilled with beer
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bars And Bartenders; Eskimos; Friendship; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska


SANIK'S SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can't even get a good flame up
Last Line: My body felt so light
Subject(s): Eskimos; Homecoming; Native Americans


SHAMAN AHGUTINGMARIK'S MAGIC SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What moves what
Last Line: Keep your eyes shut
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Native Americans - Religion


SHAMAN AHGUTINGMARIK'S MAGIC SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Earth everywhere earth
Last Line: Say whatever comes
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Native Americans - Religion


SHAMAN SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember when
Last Line: I was all I could say
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


SID'S JOURNAL CHECK, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Read out loud, sid ordered, pointing
Last Line: I became one more anonymous white woman %to be hated with the rest of the landscape
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers


SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem 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


SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upgrade, past snow-tangled bramble, past
Last Line: Heart straining, to utter that cry? - but %cannot, breath short
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Eskimos; Native Americans


SMALL PLANES NEAR NOME, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For fifty years
Last Line: Who boards that plane %will never return
Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Eskimos; Loss; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska


SONG FROM THE TIME OF WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO BREAK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn breaks in blowing
Last Line: How the gulls will hack at my dead body
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


SONG OF KUK-OOK, THE BAD BOY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the song of kuk-ook, the bad boy
Last Line: Shall wear skins of the hooded seal only, hayah
Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Native Americans


SONG OF THE OLD WOMAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All these heads these ears these eyes
Last Line: And my hair my hair will have disappeared
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Women


SONGS ARE THOUGHTS, SUNG OUT WITH THE BREATH..., by ORPINGALIK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: We get a new song
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Singing And Singers


SONGS FROM THE GREAT FEAST TO THE DEAD (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My children, where are you?
Last Line: We have presents for you, %ai-ya-ya-yai
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


SONGS FROM THE GREAT FEAST TO THE DEAD (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, my brother, come back to me
Last Line: Will give you a small present, %ai-ya-ya-yai-yai
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


SONGS FROM THE GREAT FEAST TO THE DEAD (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, my brother, %return to us again
Last Line: Will give you food
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


SONGS FROM THE GREAT FEAST TO THE DEAD (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We will sing a song
Last Line: The dogs will growl at us
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


SPIRIT SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are my feet big enough
Last Line: O the things that hold me up
Subject(s): Eskimos; Feet; Native Americans


SPIRIT SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walked on the ice of the sea
Last Line: I could hear the voice say %keep going
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Sea


SPIRIT SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spirit in the sky
Last Line: So it can't see us
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Native Americans - Religion


SPRING FJORD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was out in my kayak
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


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


SUN AND MOON, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: A brother and sister had been very wicked
Last Line: Because his torch no longer burns
Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


SUN UP THERE, UP THERE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A rich alaskan inventor friend subscribes
Last Line: So help me god, the times is the pulp %of some king fool genius fictioneer
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; New York Times (newspaper); Nome, Alaska


TAMING THE STORM: A TWO-SHAMAN VISION AND EVENT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


THERE IS JOY IN / FEELING THE WARMTH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In the winter night
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


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


THINGS IN THE SKY, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The weather with its storms and snows
Last Line: Of the lovely colored light in the sky
Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


THUNDER AND LIGHTNING, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once in a time of hunger
Last Line: That thunder and lightning could be %very dangerous indeed
Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


TRAVEL SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaving the white bear behind in his realm of sea-ice
Last Line: The life of hunters %migrating with the season
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


TUGLIK'S SONG, by TUGLIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Put on all the bracelets beads rings
Last Line: They bring us so much
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


UNALEQ'S SONG OF THE BEGINNING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything broke
Last Line: Because my baby's coming through it right %now
Subject(s): Birth; Eskimos; Native Americans


UTAHANIA'S ATTACK ON KANAIHUAQ, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You you %think you know everything
Last Line: And gets no food
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


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


UVAVNUK'S SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sea the huge sea's making me move like this
Last Line: A grassblade shaken and torn with joy
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


VICTIM, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once admitted, I gave up my wallet
Last Line: Clearing sky, spring-like weather, %and mount the brilliant far heights
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers


VILLAGE FIDDLE, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I toted my junker, side seam already cracked
Last Line: Is it hard to learn? One of my college students: %why are you out here? Where is your family?
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Villages


VISITATION, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'd been expecting her, the old eskimo
Last Line: Outside, footprints in fresh snow, wind, %a gray form whelping three wolves
Subject(s): Eskimos; Guests; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska


WEARING THE SKIN OF THE GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm stretching out my arms wide
Last Line: With my harpoon
Subject(s): Eskimos; Hunting; Native Americans


WHEN HOUSES WERE ALIVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One night a house suddenly rose up
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


WHEN I WAS YOUNG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: With the glow of the next day's dawn
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


WINTER'S FIVE MILES AWAY, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Division street's gravel
Last Line: Tomorrow, the eskimo snorts, %will kick like a moose
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Travel; Winter


WOMAN WHO TOOK IN A LARVA TO NURSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was once a barren woman
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


WOMAN'S SONG, ABOUT MEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: First I lowered my head
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans


WORDS FROM SEVEN MAGIC SONGS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inop ihumanut erinaliot %for a man's mind
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans