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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NATIVE AMERICANS Matches Found: 1486 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` (FOR LISA AND THOSE NORTHERN GIRLS), by CHARLOTTE DECLUE Poem Source First Line: Mr. Jack slurs your speech Last Line: What it's like %to be worth ten good horses Subject(s): Native Americans ...OLD WOMAN LOVED TO SING, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source Last Line: Bury it deep inside the darkened earth Subject(s): Native Americans 11-MAR-95, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: It was the year after tazhii was born Last Line: Cooked just right %the perfect delicacy Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians 1880, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Smallpox used them up winter' Last Line: After it finished with them Subject(s): Native Americans 1890, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Later, when the grave %was fenced, we tied Last Line: The hanging %eagle feathers Subject(s): Native Americans 2 + 2 = TOO MUCH, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Twice in the last two days %I drive a different man home Last Line: In the well of his grim Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians 49 IN A MOUNTAIN TOWN, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Indian bars Last Line: Sobers all %eventually Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians 949 AGUA FRIA, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: O today I see the way it is Last Line: And so I wake in my land of enchantment Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians 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 CENTENARY ODE: INSCRIBED TO LITTLE CROW, LEADER OF SIOUX REBELLION, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had nothing to do with it, I was not here Last Line: My own grave is Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars 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 DAKOTA IDYL, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn, gray, purple, gold! Last Line: With the treasure of her heart. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love; Native Americans - Women; South Dakota; Parting; Squaws 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 DIRGE; OVER A COMPANION KILLED BY COMANCHES AND BURIED ON PRAIRIE, by ALBERT PIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy wife shall wait Last Line: Must leave thee here alone. Once more farewell! Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States 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 NEW STORY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Several years ago Last Line: "no,"" I said. No" Subject(s): Native Americans; Parades 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 POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 4. THE HORSE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: For native rhythm, and poetry Last Line: Across the trembling firmament. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans - History; Poetry & Poets; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States 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 ACADEMIC POEM FOR INDIAN DISSENTERS, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: I don't speak of kunstler or aim Last Line: For political remedy %I reach for paper and pen Subject(s): Native Americans ACUPUNCTURE FOR THE BACK, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come now! %green snake Last Line: Whatever she finds %she will eat %she will destroy Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans AFTER A LONG WINTER, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Between the touching hills, a shield of pine Last Line: Glare golden in the sun Subject(s): Native Americans 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 AFTER THE DEATH OF ELDER KLALLAM, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great-uncle joe sat with a bottle of beer Last Line: Of my great-uncle, joseph, elder to thunderbird, %hawk, and sparrow Subject(s): Native Americans AFTER THE READING, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: We shook hands when pat smiled our names Last Line: Wild iris in their hands, coyotes in their eyes Subject(s): Native Americans AFTER THE RITUAL, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: There is, like they say, %something that moves' Last Line: Who had been told many things %by the unktechies Subject(s): Native Americans AGAINST ANGER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come forth %tlazopilli Last Line: Through this drink %medicine %spirit %will change this heart Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans AGAINST SCORPION'S STING AND POISON, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, priest Last Line: Right here %your power ends %you shall not pass! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans AGAINST UNRULY ANTS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come now! Mother water Last Line: Chase them away %close their town Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans AGED INDIAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A hunter once built him a cabin Subject(s): Native Americans AGUAMIEL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: In its heart %the maguey Last Line: Streams %of sweet %tears %and drops Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans AIIONWATHA, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: I have listened %and I will aid the stutterer Last Line: We will mold a nation Subject(s): Native Americans 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 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 ALIEN CORN, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Kneeling to see the world Last Line: Weevils from a cornskin rug. Help! Help! Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Iowa; Native Americans 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 ALIVE, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hum of the car Last Line: Side. I am free to be sung to; %I am free to sing. This woman %can cross any line Subject(s): Native Americans ALL DAY THE HAPPY INDIAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: All day the happy indian stalks about the land Last Line: For he never had a cool bed of dazzling white Subject(s): Native Americans ALL NIGHT HE DANCES, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: To all kinds of tunes Subject(s): Moths; Native Americans; Riddles ALL THINGS WILL PASS, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: You brought me bone %out of eyes of grief Last Line: And the meadowlark declared us dead Subject(s): Native Americans 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 ALL WINTER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In winter I remember Last Line: The things we might forget Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans ALZHEIMER'S, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I'm in the waiting room Last Line: For your new empty mind Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 AMERICA LOOMED BEFORE US, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Lester hawk dumped a couple hundred Last Line: Been consumed with the hog flesh. America %loomed before us Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco AMERICA'S WOUNDED KNEE (AN UNPOETIC SUBJECT ON ASSIGNMENT), by PHILLIP WILLIAM GEORGE Poem Source First Line: First full moon of overgrown buffalo grass Last Line: One more remains - just one percent left Subject(s): Native Americans - History 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 AMERICAN INDIAN ART: FORM AND TRADITION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source 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 AMONG THE YUROK, by JOAN JOFFE HALL Poem Source First Line: Among the california yurok Last Line: When the sky moves up and down %you are traveling in air Subject(s): Native Americans; Politics 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; ANCIENT NAHUATL POEM, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: They only had one god. %his name was quetzalcoatl Last Line: Which you must offer him %which you must sacrifice to him Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans ANCIENT ONES: BETATAKIN, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time stays, they said. We go Last Line: In time's unchanging room Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Native Americans 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 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 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 ANGLE OF GEESE, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we adorn %recognition with our speech? Last Line: Wide of time, alert, %on the dark distant flurry Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Native Americans 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 ANIMAL SPIRITS, by JOHN E. SMELCER Poem Source First Line: Old indian men teach me Last Line: And found only my tracks %in the fresh crushed snow Subject(s): Animals; Native Americans ANISHINAABE PRIDE: 1, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: A drum -- %beating like my heart Last Line: Beating -- my heart %beats love Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians ANISHINAABE PRIDE: A VISION, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: The grandfathers %sat around the sacred fire Last Line: Whey -- the medicines. I woke up Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians ANISHINAABE PRIDE: BA WAA JI GE, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Nakedness of soul %living as a tribe Last Line: Symbols to one spiritual world Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians ANISHINAABE PRIDE: BLOOD LINES, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Ancestors of spirit rock Last Line: This is all we have left Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians ANISHINAABE PRIDE: CHIWENJI GEWIN, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Into the sparks of everlasting Last Line: Prayers for all the relatives %the medicine wheel Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians ANISHINAABE PRIDE: EAGLE FLUFF, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Grandparents teach youth %old dog new tricks Last Line: Understand where people are at Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians ANISHINAABE PRIDE: HAWK IS DANCING, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Hear the whistling %hear the drum beating love Last Line: If our singers are murky with use? Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians ANISHINAABE PRIDE: HEALING, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Back some years ago Last Line: Change of life cycle Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians ANISHINAABE PRIDE: NECOMMIS SHARED, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: The old way of carrying a dish Last Line: I was thankful to learn Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians ANISHINAABE PRIDE: THINGS TO BE PROUD OF, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Proud that you're indian Last Line: Medicine men and medicine women Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians ANISHINAABE PRIDE: TRUST YOURSELF, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Indian man, %you are a warrior of struggle Last Line: He's there. %trust yourself Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians ANISHINABEG IN THE CRANBERRY SWAMP, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn bows %the headed grass Last Line: Frost from hip to shoulder %like morning mist Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Native Americans ANNIVERSARY POEM FOR THE CHEYENNES WHO DIED AT SAND CREEK, by LANCE HENSON Poem Full Text First Line: When we have come this long way Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars ANNIVERSARY POEM FOR THE CHEYENNES WHO DIED AT SAND CREEK, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: When we have come this long way Last Line: We will speak for the first time to the season %to the ponds%touching the dead grass %our voices the Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars 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 ANOTHER DYING CHIEFTAIN, by RAYNA GREEN Poem Source First Line: He was a braids-and-shades dog soldier Last Line: There's no good day to die %in these wars Subject(s): Native Americans ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST, by NILA NORTHSUN Poem Source First Line: He's a pretty good looking indian Last Line: Goals or hopes or aspirations %like so many I've known Subject(s): Native Americans 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 APACHE, by WILLIAM HASKELL SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: Naked, they ride Subject(s): Apache Indians; Native Americans APACHE - WIFE - ARIZONA, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER Poem Text First Line: In scarlet caps of sunset, swarthy hills Last Line: Now . . . Has she love or hatred for carlisle? Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Squaws APACHE IN AMBUSH, by BAILEY MILLARD Poem Source First Line: See him, prone on his belly behind the mesquite Subject(s): Apache Indians; Native Americans 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 HIGHWAYS, by JAMES WELCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I see her seventeen Last Line: As the cloud I came in on Subject(s): Native Americans 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 death—but 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 ASDZ'AAN TO'DICHI'NII, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: She was dad's baby sister Last Line: And bye and bye Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians ASSORTED COMPLIMENTS, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A treacherous fiendish look (bartlett Last Line: Than of any other animal Subject(s): West (u.s.); Native Americans; Southwest; Pacific States AT DAWN, SITTING IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: I sit quietly %in the dawn; a small house in the missouri breaks Last Line: Flat prairie above. We may pretend Subject(s): Native Americans 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 AT MEDICINE CREEK, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: There are things here that are siouxan Last Line: To the sound of their own endless %clatter and hoofbeats Subject(s): 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 AT THE FREIGHT YARDS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The ghost of jesse james cornholes doyle Last Line: To the heights of the haight %& beyond Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco AT THE HOHOKAM RUINS, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fear of the ancient Last Line: The hawk lift the snake %to its rainbow arc Subject(s): Native Americans AT THE HOUSE OF GHOSTS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I'm back after twenty years of baiting the trap of the past. This is where I Last Line: The world awaits him as it once awaited me Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco; Sports AT THE SHORE OF THE RIVER (PAPAGO), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At the shore of the river Last Line: Can no longer e seen Subject(s): Native Americans AT THE THEATER: THE DEATH OF OSCEOLA, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The theater was packed, and just before the curtain rose Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal AUNT JEWELL AS POWWOW PRINCESS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was aghast at what I saw Last Line: Came down as a heavy rain Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Variant Title(s): Aunt Jewell At Cahokia Mound Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians 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: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life Last Line: That the farmer sows in the skies and the nebulae Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds And Shepherdesses 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 AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 3, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daybreak. The chicha finally explodes Last Line: Unfurls her saffron calves Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; 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 BABYSITTING, ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: In gambell, where the natives speak Last Line: Nowhere else can we go, so we sit %with love, and look after our own' Subject(s): Native Americans - Languages; Nome, Alaska; Tongues 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 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 BALLAD OF THE SABRE CROSS AND 7, by IRVING BACHELLER Poem Text First Line: A troop of sorrels led by vic and then a troop of bays Last Line: In the rolling waves we dug their graves and left them under the sod. Subject(s): Generals; Native Americans - Wars; War BARE FACTS, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: The spirit lives %when it moves and sings your name Last Line: When cricket tells us everything %he knows Subject(s): Native Americans BARREL-RACER COWBOY CHASER, by NILA NORTHSUN Poem Source First Line: Small farm town girl %never left nevada Last Line: She'll never wiggle her hot pants %for anybody but the local cowboys Subject(s): Native Americans BARROOM FRAGMENT, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was talking, %'I invited her to las vegas Last Line: That was coyote talking Subject(s): Native Americans BARS FIGHT, by LUCY TERRY PRINCE Poem Text First Line: August 'twas, the twenty-fifth Last Line: Was taken and carried off to canada. Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; Massacres; Native Americans - Wars BAT SONG (PAPAGO), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The evening looked red Last Line: Inside houses, flying around Subject(s): Native Americans BATS (YAQUI), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Night people, %though nothing is done to them Last Line: Night, night people Subject(s): Native Americans 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 BAY POEM, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: Where from the watch towers Last Line: Endless %damp %streets %lovely moonshine %at %2 %am %on the edge %of %rain Subject(s): Native Americans BE CAREFUL, by NILA NORTHSUN Poem Source First Line: In ponema %there still are witches Last Line: It will reflect back Subject(s): Native Americans BEAR, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What ruse of vision, %escarping the wall of leaves Last Line: As buzzards control, %imperceptibly, their flight Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Native Americans BEAUTIFUL AND THE DANGEROUS, by BARBARA TEDLOCK Poem Source First Line: Under a swollen lavender sky a crowd of men in black blankets Last Line: A returned pilgrim. Examples of ethnographic bad faith Subject(s): Love - Incestuous; Native Americans - History BEAVERS, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: Turn the sixth card over at dawn Last Line: Beaver near the end in the city Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Beavers; Fur Trade; Hunting; Native Americans - History BECAUSE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Because I have a choker of trading post beads Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco BEFORE AN OLD PAINTING OF THE CRUCIFIXION, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ponder how he died, despairing once Last Line: Like flecks of foam borne landward and destroyed Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Native Americans BEHIND THE HILL, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember that afternoon when we first came to the place Last Line: Crawled out on a rock, on the other side, and lay there quiet in the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians 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 BIG VEIN: 1, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Sometime gnawing surges rush Last Line: To help ease the pain Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: 2, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Morning approaches %already hear the wing clan greeting the new Last Line: This day I live for the creator %his guidance Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: 3, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: The transforming %rain into the snow Last Line: Gave the heart pounding %thrashing spheres Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: 4, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: I think of you Last Line: Of nations, of generations Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: A VISIT TO GRANDMA MOON, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: One evening mino star and tinker star Last Line: Hug and kisses and goodnight Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: GRANDMOTHER MOON, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Ripples and waves %glistening twinkles of crystals Last Line: And her master glows %a new cycle Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: HANDLE GENTLY, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Like flowers of mother earth Last Line: And be handled %gently Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: I AM YOU, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: I am the father, the son, the spirit Last Line: Now is the beginning, %the rebirth Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: I HEAR YOU, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: A voice, with the colors of the rainbow Last Line: It's sunny. %I hear you Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: IN THE SECOND BEYOND STILLNESS, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Look past the gazing anishinaabe people Last Line: ...In the second %beyond stillness Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: LIFE GIVER MOTHER EARTH, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Spring time is here again Last Line: And help heal her Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: LONELINESS, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Loneliness strengthens %the aching Last Line: Faith of self wish Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: OF THE CREATION, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Like the singer %beating his song Last Line: Beating his song %on the drum Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: PRECIOUS YOU, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: From the seed of life Last Line: You are not alone Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: PURIFY, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Purify and ask the great spirit Last Line: Fragrance of love of all relatives Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: SOUNDS, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: ...Like feathers fanning Last Line: Fluttering in the ceiling Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: In the flames, fluorescent brightness Last Line: To leave at his call. %the eagle shrieked! Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: THE CREATOR OF ALL NATIONS PROCLAIMS, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Water nourished %sun's growth Last Line: Fully flourished %sculptured %ultimate given Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: TIME, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: The tantalizing, scintillating brush Last Line: Needing, giving each other time Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians BIG VEIN: WINTER BLANKET, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: The wind whispered %and crunching of snow Last Line: And slowness of peace Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians 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 BIRCH CANOE, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Red men embraced my body's whiteness Last Line: At home in the fish's fallen heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Identity; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians BIRDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Snakes Last Line: In flight Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans BIRTH, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Cuaton %caxxoch %goddesses %of love Last Line: And catch %this child %of the gods Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans BIRTH OF A SONG (INUIT), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was a winter night in the Last Line: It hit my ear Subject(s): Native Americans 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 BATS (PAPAGO), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The sun is slowly departing Last Line: That is all Subject(s): Native Americans BLACK CROW DREAMS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Dear chief seattle: %I was wondering if you ever ran into Last Line: Or have we simply forgotten %how-the-christ to fly Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 BLACK IS THIS NIGHT OF LOVE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I hope we make it home Last Line: It is warm and you are wakan Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco BLAME IT ON THE DOG, HE'S DEAD, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Waiting in the vet's office Last Line: The slate clean of the checked days %of four thirsty years Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco BLEAK TRUTH IS, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: The old man knew many %stories about the river Last Line: Who go behind the bush and beat around.' Subject(s): Native Americans BLOOD OF THE CHIEFTAINS RAN LIKE WATER', by FRANK LIMA Poem Source First Line: Moctezoma is drowning Last Line: As a song %I was born %as a flower %I will %die...' Subject(s): Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans BLOODWINE EPIGRAMS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In the smoothing of warm and ageless sand Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco BLUE CALABASH, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: Kernels %of %corn Subject(s): Native Americans; Riddles; Stars BLUE CORN, BLACK MESA, by PEGGY SHUMAKER Poem Source First Line: Before you go, I need to tell you Last Line: No one knows why this story is true Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Hopi Indians; Human Rights; Native Americans BLUE MARROW, by LOUISE BERNICE HALFE Poem Source First Line: Grandmothers hold me. I must pass all that I possess, every Last Line: Of our struggling hearts? Subject(s): Explorers; Hunting; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) BLUE UP THERE IS PRETTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The blue up there is pretty Last Line: The blue up there is pretty Subject(s): Native Americans BLUES-ING ON THE BROWN VIBE, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: And coyote struts down east 14th Last Line: Rusty at times %worn bitter from relocation Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians 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 BODY IDENTIFIED, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: That thursday afternoon when I Last Line: In one paragraph of the newspaper Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Native Americans BODY POLITIC, by JULIE DUNLOP Poem Source First Line: They sleep under the bright colors they quilted Last Line: Looking down on the clatter of cook and clean Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Appalachia; Family Life; Native Americans BOOZE 'N' LOOZING-PART III, by DIANE BURNS Poem Source First Line: It's been %6 months Last Line: Now I'm one of the grown-ups Subject(s): Native Americans 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 BOYS CRUISE SEATTLE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Ennut! %look, jake Last Line: Pull over. Let's %check them out %for nail holes Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco BRIEF GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY TEACHERS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Name several american holocausts, the nations involved Last Line: Of course not: it never has been, and this is no time to begin doing so Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Native Americans - History BRINGING HANNAH HOME, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: We brought hannah home today Last Line: Squatting with bloodied hands and cold earth %bringing hannah home Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Navajo Indians BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The '49 dawn set me high on a roaring yellow tractor Last Line: Being ground up with it, then or now Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Variant Title(s): In Kansa Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians BROTHER INDIAN, by ROGER WILLIAMS (1603-1683) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a savour of civility and courtesie even amongst these wild americans Last Line: Make sure thy second birth, else thou shalt see %heaven ope to indians wild, but shut to thee Subject(s): Native Americans; U.s. - Colonial Period BUCKSKIN VORTEX, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: A radio orge twists Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco BUFFALO POEM: 1, by GEARY HOBSON Poem Source First Line: On hearing that a small herd of buffalo has 'broken loose' and Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Native Americans BUTCHER'S WIFE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once, my braids swung heavy as ropes Last Line: Until the whole damn world reels toward winter drunk Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Butchers; Native Americans 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 BY THE TIME, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source Last Line: Of the tribe continued in the imagination to be inherent in maka, the earth Subject(s): Native Americans CALENDAR KEEPERS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Rattlesnakes %renew %themselves Last Line: They trace %the shining %path of our %rainy seasons Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 CANTO A LAS TORTILLAS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I go on %calling Last Line: Inside %the humblest %tortillas %of life Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 CAPTIVITY, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stream was swift, and so cold Last Line: In time, begging it to open %to admit me %as he was %and feed me honey from the rock Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Native Americans 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 CARTAGENA, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain and thunder beat down and flooded the streets Last Line: And got back to the ship, dawn came, %we were far out at sea Subject(s): Native Americans CASE STUDY #311,990, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Many times %I exist in a form Last Line: I take the role of zia woman %and mother Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians 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 CATECHISM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From where do they come Subject(s): Mayas; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans CATHER'S OEUVRE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Against the glare at my dark window Last Line: Often get the story wrong Subject(s): Native Americans 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 CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Last Line: With pollen blowing off the corn, %land that will always ownus, %everywhere it is red Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women - Writers CENTENARY ODE: INSCRIBED TO LITTLE CROW, LEADER OF SIOUX REBELLION, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had nothing to do with it, I was not here Last Line: I don't even know where %my own grave is Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: VIET NAM, 1968, by GEARY HOBSON Poem Source First Line: An eagle glides above the plain Last Line: Into the smoke of his past Subject(s): Native Americans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CEREMONIES OF THE DAMNED, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Sweetheart Last Line: We live in is truly the land of the free Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 CHAIRS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Indian children squat upon the ground Last Line: For squatting is all right, they find. Subject(s): Native Americans - Children; October 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 CHARLEEN JUST NEVER CAME BACK, by MARY TALLMOUNTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You know %it was private Alternate Author Name(s): Randle, Mary Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans CHARM TO MAKE THE SUN GO DOWN (HAIDA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The hills %are spotted Last Line: And sunlight Subject(s): Charms (magic); Native Americans CHEYENNE WINTER, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: Albino buffalo %stands in white void Last Line: The mole %sleeps Subject(s): Native Americans CHICKEN BLUES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Outside his room the rain Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco CHICOME-COATL/SEVEN SNAKE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Corn stalks %are upright Last Line: Corn ears %rattle %in the wind Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans CHICOME-XOCHITL/SEVEN FLOWER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Deer %father Last Line: All %stems %pointing %stars Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans CHICOMICO; FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: What sight of horror Last Line: And, lo! Cordelia before rathmond stood! Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars 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 CHIEF RED JACKET ADDRESSSES A MISSIONARY, by RED JACKET Poem Source First Line: Brother, listen to what we say. There was a time Last Line: We only want to enjoy our own Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest CHILDREN OF GRANDMOTHER MOON, by M. OWLFEATHER Poem Source First Line: Grandmother moon comes slowly Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear walt, %well, that was some weekend. Can't see why janey bell Last Line: P.S. There's a note for janey bell enclosed. %don't open it Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians 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 CHRIST'S TWIN, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was formed of chicken blood and lightning Last Line: They would drown for love Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Christianity; Native Americans; Religion CHRISTIANITY HOPPING, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: On sunday mornings we were presbyterian so we could drink coffee and Last Line: Then we got lost somewhere upstairs Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Native Americans - Religion; Presbyterianism; Religion - Reformers CIHUACOATL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: In the barrios %la llorona Last Line: Has run out %of tears Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans CITIZENSHIP FOR THE RED MAN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty nation we have built Last Line: Merge proudly in american! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Native Americans - History; United States; America 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 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We of the osage nation have come Last Line: Gold and violet its humongous word, %vacancy, vacancy, %up to the dancing stars Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians CLOUDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Mountains Last Line: Dreaming %up the sky Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans COLLABORATOR, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: I remember the fallen trees, thin and pale as frost smoke Last Line: Sway in the gloom %of my forfeiture Subject(s): Native Americans COLOSSAL AMERICAN COPULATION, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: They say there's a promise Last Line: That dusty road, but I don't see it Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco COME, LET US DRINK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come Last Line: Let us drink Subject(s): Native Americans 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 COMFORTING SONG (INUIT), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Little one, do not cry Last Line: She has finished her sewing Subject(s): Native Americans COMFORTING SONG (INUIT), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Do not cry, little one Last Line: Do not weep Subject(s): Native Americans COMING BACK, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Text First Line: When they woke me Last Line: Move in dance to a distant drum Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage COMMON COLOR OF RED, by MARY GOOSE Poem Source First Line: The film's narrator said that you could still see Last Line: Both now had dried to a rust and brown color and were once blood red Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars COMMUNING BEFORE SUPERMARKETS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: -it's probably because we were always trying Last Line: Turns into food for all %the different beings in their times Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians COMRADES, SLEEP ON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My comrades Last Line: I precede you as scout Subject(s): Native Americans CONTRADICTION, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: As one who does not mind Last Line: When women throw down bundles Subject(s): Native Americans CONVERSATIONS IN PASSING, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Two university vans! %man, if that wasn't letting Last Line: Maybe we'll survive the streets of that town Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - History; Prisons And Prisoners; Racism; Tyranny And Tyrants COOSAPONAKEESA (MARY MATHEWS MUSGROVE BOSOMSWORTH), LEADER OF THE ..., by RAYNA GREEN Poem Source First Line: What kind of lovers could they have been %these colonists Last Line: It's all %or nothing Subject(s): Native Americans CORN IS MY PLEASURE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My best friend %what do you like? Last Line: The corn %is %my pleasure' Subject(s): Native Americans COUCH FANTASY, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In the mandolin air of pistons Last Line: And any submarines had yet to sail Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco COUNTING LOSSES IN OCTOBER, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: A wind grows out of itself from the north Last Line: And the unforgiving darkness of night Subject(s): Native Americans COVE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Was a quiet place %hidden from above by an overhang Last Line: And witness the alien banks %and shout their names Subject(s): Native Americans COVERT LOVER OR HOW MY NA'ASHSHOOD DAYS ENDED, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: He was leading me behind the abandoned school buildings Last Line: Somewhere in the mountains the wind was singing Subject(s): Adolescence; Hearts; Love; Native Americans - Women COYOTE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Steel jaws are tense to clamp shut Last Line: The blackest sweat %of [or, the] morning on the ground Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans COYOTE AND TEHOMA, by DANIEL-HARRY STEWARD Poem Source First Line: Clever coyote Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans COYOTE NIGHT, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: A flat tire ten miles Last Line: It drives pretty good %on three tires Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco COYOTE SONG, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: A light powdered snow glistens in the brown Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco COYOTE SUN, by CARLOS CUMPIAN Poem Source First Line: Gathered on oaxaca's %huarache-worn stones Last Line: The one %who knows coyote sun Subject(s): Native Americans; Rites And Ceremonies COYOTE'S ANTHRO, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: The anthropologist was very excited. He'd just received his Last Line: Weren't sure of. And you, my friend, forgot to sing Subject(s): Anthropology; Native Americans - History; Speech COYOTE'S CIRCLE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In south dakota and heading Last Line: And love and forgotten memories Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco COYOTE'S DISCOURSE ON POWER, MEDICINE, AND WOULD-BE SHAMANS, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: Good evening, friends. You notice this long, straight branch I'm Last Line: Money, it will be a very happy basket. %thank you Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Creation; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Speech CRADLESONG OF THE SPARROWS (AGUARUNA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Little chick, chick, hey-ah! Last Line: I'll swing you back and forth Subject(s): Native Americans CREATION OF THE WORLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For every destruction, a creation Subject(s): Mayas; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans CREATOR'S SONG (PAPAGO), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I have created you here Last Line: The red evening I bring to you Subject(s): Native Americans CREEK, by JR. AUGUSTINE PALMER Poem Source First Line: It is the sky we hear first Last Line: And smelling it, smelling ourselves in it Subject(s): Native Americans CREEK THOUGHT NO. 9, by LOUIS OLIVER Poem Source First Line: I speak a language older than english Subject(s): Native Americans - Languages CRISE DE CONSCIENCE, by ORIANA OWEN Poem Source First Line: Today, I bathed in blood Last Line: And the indians forgave me Subject(s): Native Americans CROW AMBUSH, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crow %circling overhead Last Line: I'd rather be a drunkard than a fool' Subject(s): Native Americans CULTURAL DYSLEXIA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Dispossessed of dispomania Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 CUSTER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All valor died not on the plains of troy Last Line: Let tears complete the tale of him who failed, yet won. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Native Americans - Wars CUTTING WOOD, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Ahmo %tinechelehuiliz Last Line: I offer tobacco %for your shin Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans DANCING WITH DINOSAURS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before we came to earth, %before the birds had come Last Line: Now they will sing and we %are dancing with them, here Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians DANDELION, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In grease-bubbling heat Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco DAY AND NIGHT, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I bleed %in silence %all alone Last Line: Broken teeth %blood %butterflies Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 DE GUSTIBUS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To skin a skunk, skill is needed Last Line: But even fried few will eat it Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians DEAD COWS AT AGAI PAH, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Baiting the trap of the past Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 DEAD REZ LAND DREAM, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The rez land we wanted was thick Last Line: Walt whitman, what's the difference Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco DEAR WEBSTER, by CONNIE FIFE Poem Source First Line: I am the one who talks with the mountains Last Line: And din't die Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Racism DEATH CRY FOR THE LANGUAGE, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Grandmother %tuya:taht'a branches at the top Last Line: The narrow passages from this world Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Cherokee Indians; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 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 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 DEDICATIONS: 1, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: The lady of dedication for sobriety of the Last Line: And her way of recognition for others who she %helped Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: 2, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: You are gone with Last Line: From man to earth dust Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: 3, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: A note to say miigwetch Last Line: Our great spirit loves you and I do Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: 4, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Your blood %the rapid current electrifying Last Line: An image, invisible I know %the sugar bear Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: AT MY SIDE, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: A woman of strength Last Line: Shine in your tree of life Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: BALANCE CALLS, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Special feather, warrior, eye of the creator Last Line: Homeward bound, balance calls Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: DANCE FLIGHT OF LIFE, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Biiwaabikoons our professor (reva chapman) Last Line: Their eagle bones whistle -- life. %waswagoning Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: DATES, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: I know why you were sent to me Last Line: As we canoe on her vein Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: FOR FROG, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: He is four seasons Last Line: Grandfather's tool, %the eagle whistle Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: FOR MOTHER, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Mother, %the rays of sunlight enter and brighten Last Line: The circle of motherhood is blessed Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: FOR PRIORITY, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Our pathways divide. %there beyond the horizon Last Line: These prayers bring crystal clear love Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: LITTLE STONE, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Little stone, a particle of dust here Last Line: My little sister there is horizons ahead Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: LOOKING INTO THE SUN, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: A little farther down the road Last Line: Looking into the sun Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: STRENGTH OF FASTING, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Ziigwan is here %fasting time to help our mother earth Last Line: Songs, %prayers, %songs, %prayers Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEDICATIONS: TOUGH LOVE BEAR, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Firekeeper potawatomi nation %flowing warmth bringing Last Line: A torch of wholeness. %all nations Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians DEER AT THE KESHENA AMPHITHEATRE, 1993, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: The singers come from everywhere. Fine white Last Line: Where it is safe to walk Subject(s): Native Americans DEER HUNTING, by GEARY HOBSON Poem Source First Line: God dammit, al. Are you gonna help me Last Line: Now become a man Subject(s): Native Americans 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 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 DELUGE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Look at the disorder %the leaves and vines torn from swaying trees Last Line: Only the river gods will tell you what you can expect Subject(s): Native Americans DIALECTIC, by CHARLOTTE DECLUE Poem Source First Line: Tv blares %thru rigged antenna Last Line: All it takes %is lowerin' your face Subject(s): Native Americans DIRECTIONAL MEMORY, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: West %let's begin with the first thing you remember Last Line: I always forget l.A. Has sacred mountains Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians DISAPPEARING WOMAN, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Mission padres, only the sailors saw me rise Last Line: For the sake of decency, you said. %I had a language Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Native Americans; Women - Captives DISCO DANNY AKA RUBY'S DANCE PARTNER, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Oh please %don't tell me disco started Last Line: Muscle of bridled horse %weighted by the human brain Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians DISCUSSION ABOUT INDIAN AFFAIRS, by GEARY HOBSON Poem Source First Line: She was a white woman %from some little town Last Line: I wondered if we'd ever have %anything to say to one another Subject(s): Native Americans DISGUISED AS A BUFFALO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O yankton sioux Last Line: You discredit %yourselves Subject(s): Native Americans DISTANCES, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: I was writing this poem before I knew how far I had come and Last Line: Because that was so, distance would not devour me Subject(s): Native Americans DIVINING BY LOOKING IN THE WATER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come now! %come forth Last Line: Perhaps his tonal %has left him Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans DIVINING WITH CORN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Welcome %tlazopilli %seven snake Last Line: If this medicine cures him %or if he gets worse Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans DIVINING WITH THE HANDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, spirit in flesh Last Line: Will he get worse? %will he last some time? Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 DOG WHO WALKED WITH GOD, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: Water, they say, was everywhere Last Line: Everything grown %and still growing Subject(s): California; Creation; Kato Indians; Legends, Native American; Native Americans DOG'S SONG (PIMA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The songs start at nightfall Last Line: Blowing my tail toward the north Subject(s): Native Americans DOMINGO HERNANDEZ, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Please %let him free Last Line: (green spirit %dark spirit) %in nomine patris %et filii %et spiritus sancti Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I dreamt about you last night Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans DREAM OF HOME, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: The house grown cold Last Line: And they walk home together Subject(s): Native Americans DREAMING SONGS (PAPAGO), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The powers I had won, beneath my Last Line: Beautiful songs for the circling dance Subject(s): Native Americans DRESS FOR WAR, by EDWARD DORN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Tallow shampoo so the hair is sleek & obedient Subject(s): West (u.s.); Native Americans – Wars; Southwest; Pacific States DRIFTWOOD, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: The river's down again, my love Last Line: Like trees of pristine worlds %left high and dry Subject(s): Native Americans 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 DRIVING IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On humming rubber along this white concrete Last Line: He flies so easy, when he sings Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians DROUGHT, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Despite %dry %years Last Line: Siempre %verde %inside Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans DRUNK WITH MERLE SINGING, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I was drunk with merle singing in the background Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco DRY SPELL, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: It's like the time Last Line: Diamonds are beautiful even if you don't own one Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians DUST WORLD, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Whirlwinds of hot autumn dust Last Line: Parade is beginning Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 EAGLE (PAPAGO), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The sun's rays Last Line: And stretch beyond their tips Subject(s): Native Americans EAGLE SONNETS: 3, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hear the ancients say that man is issue Last Line: Each part will be too hard at work to hear it. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion EAGLE SONNETS: 4, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And - spirit? Is it some ethereal spark Last Line: Shall follow where the striving heart has gone. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion EAGLE SONNETS: 5, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flower of the dust am I Last Line: To let new heavens ripple out of dust. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion EAGLE SONNETS: 6, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are parts of a vaster thing than we Last Line: Inexorably one with all that is. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion EAGLE SONNETS: 8, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faith is the dream that things known false are true Last Line: Yet we shall find no truer guide than he. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion EAGLE WOMAN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Dark, beaked blots circle my eyes inside Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 EARTH AND I GAVE YOU TURQUOISE, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I will ride the swiftest horse %you will hear the drumming hooves Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): 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 EARTH BONE CONNECTED TO THE SPIRIT BONE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: When america died, I was passed out Last Line: It becomes the only word %in our world Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco EARTH ONLY ENDURES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The old men %say %the earth Last Line: You are right Subject(s): Native Americans EASTER SUNDAY, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Driving to the mountains at noon Last Line: Family together %give thanks %we eat now Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Easter; Family Life; Food And Eating; Holidays; Native Americans; Togetherness ECLIPSE, by JR. AUGUSTINE PALMER Poem Source First Line: See, my son yells Last Line: But more humane, lovelier %than you or me Subject(s): Native Americans EDWARD CURTIS PHOTOGRAPHS THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, by VIRGINIA E. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Heavy as the blue thunder I carry the book Subject(s): Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952); Native Americans; Photography And Photographers EEE AY WHO TWO, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source Last Line: Turkey barns in these hills counterfeit arks Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Soldiers EL SALVADOR!, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Paralyzed children staring %into the pulitzer prizes of our televising selves Last Line: We look into and try to comprehend Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians 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 ELAN, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes after the glare of sunrise Last Line: To the nation he honors Subject(s): Native Americans ELEGY FOR CHIEF STEALTH (1786-1866), by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The white man will never be alone Last Line: The glimpse of a heron, shifting in the reeds Subject(s): Native Americans ELEGY FOR ONE OF US, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Some say that we are all brothers under the skin Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 ENCHANTED BAMBOO ARROW, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: Enchanted enchanted bamboo arrow Last Line: Decaying %decaying %decaying Subject(s): Fights; Landmark Preservation; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) END OF THE RANGE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep ye protein herders weep Last Line: And the foreigners are fighting back Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Native Americans - Removal ENDANGERED ROOTS OF A PERSON, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember lying awake Last Line: At my twisted-twin birth Subject(s): Native Americans ENSNARED DEER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Spirit %seven flower Last Line: He was taken %it's all over with Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans EPIPHANY: OXYMORON, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In redneck god-fearing gordon, nebraska Last Line: Of our bankable plight Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco EPITAPHS FOR SOME IDIOTS I HAVE BEEN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The stud. I have travelled like a truck Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco ESKIMO BABY, by LUCY DIAMOND Poem Source First Line: If you were an eskimo baby Subject(s): Babies; Eskimos; Native Americans 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 EURO-AMERICAN WOMANHOOD CEREMONY, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Some say the boarding school experience wasn't that bad Last Line: To heal our wounds %from the euro-american womanhood ceremony Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians 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 EXCERPT FROM MANNIFEST MANNERS, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: Native american indian literatures have been over burdened with Last Line: Ries, are marooned as obscure moral simulations in translations Subject(s): Anthropology; Books; Native Americans - Education; Story-telling; Translating And Interpreting EXPLICATION, by SUSAN TICHY Poem Source First Line: When I was reading about the indian wars, going there Last Line: And the yellow mud and the walking Subject(s): Native Americans EXTINCTION, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: Along the bleak %sun Last Line: Who %remembers %me Subject(s): Native Americans 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 FABLE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ages of fire and of air Last Line: Broken mirrors where the world sees itself shattered Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian FABLE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Epochs of fire and air Last Line: Fragments that will never again cohere %broken mirrors in which the world sees itself massacred Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian FACES, FACES, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go to that green land Last Line: The far-flung rains shall wash %and winds shall topple over Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY, by JUAN GONZALO ROSE Poem Source First Line: Look, my king, they're everywhere Last Line: And cruel cajamarcas Subject(s): Judgment Day; Native Americans; Peru FALLING STARS, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: With ruby at my side Last Line: Taking our place with the stars in the sky Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians FALLON RODEO LONG TIME AGO, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The bonfire laughed upward Subject(s): Native Americans; Rodeos; San Francisco 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 FAMILY REUNION, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ray's third new car in half as many years Last Line: For a long time unerwater, and the angels come %lowering their slings and litters Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Native Americans FAR INLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The earth is white far inland Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nature FAREWELL TO SYNTHESIS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Schooled namers of names Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FAREWELL, MY NATION! FAREWELL, BLACK HAWK, by BLACK HAWK Poem Source First Line: When my last resources were exhausted Last Line: That a brave war chief would prefer death to dishonor Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest FAT IN AMERICA, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: This is no joke. She is fat and happy in the u.S.A. The kind of woman Last Line: These are the platforms of faith -- holy and round and strong Subject(s): Faith; Native Americans; Women FAT OF THE LAND, by GEORGIANA VALOYCE SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: Walking to public school Last Line: Beneath the bare peach tree Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Native Americans; Soil FATHER'S SONG (INUIT), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Strong snowslide Last Line: Snowslide, let their night be calm Subject(s): Native Americans FEAST BY THE MANZANARES, by HERNANDO RUIZ DE ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Midst the opacous gloom %and dense opacities Last Line: Precipitates his course, %so the beginning day %may terminate the feast Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FEVER JOURNAL, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Bates, bates, god damn robert bates Last Line: Bates, I don't know if I'm %living or dead Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FEVER VORTEX #666, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: When I thought I was dying Last Line: On that nazi dwarf.' Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FIRE DOWN BELOW, by EDWARD DORN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening shadows lengthen Subject(s): West (u.s.); Native Americans; Southwest; Pacific States FIRST AND LAST A.A. MEETING, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I doze tumescently in rasping dakota corn Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FIRST CAR REMAINS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Behind the faded government shack Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FIRST OF THE MONTH, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Undeodorized and radiant in rags Last Line: Of my drunken race %cashing their welfare checks Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FIRST OFFERING, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Ourselves %molded out Last Line: The first crop %smiling %everywhere Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FIRST WATER WORLD, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Uncle, how once a round rock Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FLIGHT OF THE ITZAS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They came with a fury Last Line: Just death and blood %and sorrow, sorrow, sorrow! Subject(s): Grief; Mayas; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FLOCK, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: Across the road %ice huddles against the trees Last Line: Snow moves %like an ancient herd Subject(s): Native Americans FLOWERS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: A day %is all Last Line: We last %a breath! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FLUTE MAKER'S STORY, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: For those on prairie hills who make the sounds Last Line: Forever in maka, no magic sets you free Subject(s): Native Americans FOOT-PRINTS, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Shadows of lilac echo the form Last Line: Unchanging, changing—you remain. Subject(s): Footprints; Native Americans; Shadows; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America FOR BATHING, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come forth %mist hair Last Line: I, spirit in flesh %I, the enchanter Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR BONE FRACTURES, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: What have my elder sisters Last Line: Beware of messing up %I'll see you tomorrow Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR FATIGUE AND BODY PAINS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come here %yellow relaxer Last Line: Go and destroy %the green pain %the dark pain %(meaning the stiffness) Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR FEVERS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come on! %come now Last Line: Who is destroying %your creation %I myself %I, the enchanter Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR FINDING AFFECTION, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: On mirror mountain %the place of encounters Last Line: I am not truly at war %I'm of a woman's womb Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR HUNTING BIRDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, poor orphan Last Line: Here I shall wait %for my uncles %the spirits %olchipinque %olpeyauhque Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR HUNTING DEER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I'm leaving %I, poor orphan Last Line: And reed flower %that's who I shall carry back Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR KEEPING ANIMALS OUT OF SOWN FIELDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, the wizard jaguar Last Line: O father %four reed %flaming one! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR LOVE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Enchanted %words %at dawn Last Line: A handful %of flowers %and stars Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR MISS CELINE WHEN SHE SMOKES, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Miss celine is bold Last Line: But I know miss celine forgets about the spirits %so I try to think thoughts for her Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians FOR MY LAKOTA WOMAN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Early that winter we had fresh tomatoes Last Line: The americans had written for us Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FOR PAOLO AND FRANCESCA, LOVERS, IN COLD, by JR. AUGUSTINE PALMER Poem Source First Line: The winds I've heard their farthest gale Last Line: The reeds transfix, then fold Subject(s): Native Americans FOR PLANTING CAMOTES, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, poor orphan Last Line: With her I shall heal %I , just a poor person Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans; Potatoes FOR PLANTING CORN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %spirit in flesh Last Line: I shall greet %I shall honor %my elder sister %tonacacihuatl Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR SOFT DRESSER, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: When we sing %we are not playing Last Line: As I lean from mine. %'ma ha it Subject(s): Native Americans FOR STORING CORN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %spirit in flesh Last Line: You, my elder sister %you, tonacaihuatl Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR STRAINED CHESTS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come %nine-times-powdered-one Last Line: Do your duty %you, yellow woman Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR THE INDIANS IN THE MINT BAR WHO ROBBED THE JOINT AND HEADED FOR, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: In a world where all the villains Last Line: A perfect pair, they dramatize the comic scenes %of non-translatable plays Subject(s): Native Americans FOR THEODORE ROETHKE: 1908-1962, by JR. AUGUSTINE PALMER Poem Source First Line: Quiet while first we court these dreams Last Line: We'll deign this havoc closed Subject(s): Native Americans FOR THIEVES ONLY, by LOIS RED ELK Poem Source First Line: Don't tell me Last Line: I'll show you what you never learned Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage FOR TOM NUMKENA, HOPI/SPOKANE, by HAROLD LITTLEBIRD Poem Source First Line: In the tall quiet pines of washington Last Line: Thankful am I that I could it last autumn %with you and yourpeorple. %hau! Hau! Hau! Subject(s): Native Americans - Reservations FOR WONDER BREAD DANNY QUAYLE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The candy goblins squeak young songs Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FOR YOU, THESE FLOWERS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Caught in slow motion for several years Last Line: And be suffocated by flowers Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco FORMING CHILD POEMS: SEVEN, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Near the summit, se of kinlichee Last Line: Why I decided to leave it like that Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians FOUR DIRECTIONS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: West %we are %salmons Last Line: South %we turn %into snakes %by eating %chile Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 FOUR POEMS FOR A CHILD SON / DECEMBER 18, 1972: IT WAS THE THIRD DAY, JULY 12 , 1971, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hitchhiking on the way to colorado Last Line: Look, the stones with voices Subject(s): Native Americans; Hitchhikers; Fathers & Sons FRANKENSTEIN OF THE PLAINS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: She's wearing tight wranglers Last Line: Like a frankenstein of the plains Subject(s): Native Americans; Prairies; San Francisco; Women FREE WHITE AND FIFTEEN, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the bullet hit, the horse keeled over dead Last Line: We'd be at work next morning, cleaning kennels Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians FREEDOM SONG, by TALA SANNING Poem Source First Line: Oppressed people %are like caged songbirds Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: I'm always asked about the latest dance Last Line: An act of faith to seem unripe Subject(s): Native Americans FRIENDSHIP IN KLALLAM COUNTY, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grandfather told me when I was a boy Last Line: Near the path, pulsing like the tide Subject(s): Native Americans FRIEZE, by JR. AUGUSTINE PALMER Poem Source First Line: A ghost can't whistle' Last Line: That is a different thing Subject(s): Native Americans FROM THE NORTHWEST COAST: YA-IHL'S SONG TO THE NORTH WIND, by ALICE HENSON ERNST Poem Text First Line: Ah-hi-yoo ... Last Line: Cha-it-sc'l, little-brown-partridge, she whom I loved, is dead. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion FULL CIRCLE: THE CONNECTICUT CASINO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O / o / o the first full moon of the year 2000 Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal FULLBLOOD GIRL ON A BLUE HORSE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I don't know Last Line: And I might shoot me %some rednecks today Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 FUNERAL SERMON, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Thousands of years ago Last Line: They were on their way Subject(s): Native Americans GENEALOGY, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: I was not raised in the traditional way, and you can ask what right have I Last Line: When I wake in the morning, having been there in the night Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE, SELS., by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE: 1, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On susquehanna's side, fair wyoming Last Line: Was outalissi hailed, with bark and plumage bright. Variant Title(s): Description Of Wyoming Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE: 2, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A valley from the river shore withdrawn Last Line: In all that slept beneath her soft voluptuous ray. Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE: 3, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love! In such a wilderness as this Last Line: The death-song of an indian chief! Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania GETTING A SECOND OPINION, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I've just bought you a new winter coat Last Line: But the great spirit is too Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco GETTING ACROSS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hanging %out under the bridge Last Line: Where he has passed his death Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians GETTING RICH, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: On promises %we see the silvery band of the river Last Line: The bitter stories %of broken faith Subject(s): Native Americans GETTING THINGS STRAIGHT, by JAMES WELCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is the sun the same drab gold? Last Line: Is he my vision? Subject(s): Native Americans GHAZAL #1, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: One of these days we'll all be hiding out like treed Last Line: Death of the natural and sensual world Subject(s): Native Americans GHAZAL #2, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Whether well and accurately or poorly and falsely, tribal boswells Last Line: Stiff-kneed toward the river, whistled Subject(s): Native Americans GHAZAL #3, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: The missouri breaks, lying between the uplands and river bottoms Last Line: Tired of the first; that was not the way of a good dakotah Subject(s): Native Americans 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 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 GIVEN, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This world to grow into, I know Last Line: Glittering darkness that has no end Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians 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 GLYPHS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: & the code %public record stopped midsentence Last Line: They were bled %who reads them now? %idzat %artist Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry And Poets; Tongues GO FOR BROKE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the heart of the indian country of oklahoma Last Line: Run the head of the avalanche Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Surrealism GOING HOME, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Those roads of hard packed earth, streaked with the familiarity Last Line: Valedictorians and pied pipers of every order Subject(s): Native Americans 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 GOOD MORNING AMERICA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Last week on good morning america Last Line: America is swimming in the electric drool %of self-inflicted dementia Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco GOVERNOR EVERETT RECEIVING THE INDIAN CHIEFS, 1837, SELS., by SARAH MARGARET FULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shorn of his strength, the samson now must sue Last Line: Might makes right here, but god and time are just Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest 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 GRAFFITI DIALOGUE IN A NEBRASKA BORDERTOWN LAUNDROMAT, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Chester crow suckes a peache. And he injoys it to.' Last Line: C. Crow suckes a white peache to.' Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 GRANDFATHER AT THE INDIAN HEALTH CLINIC, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: It's cold at last and cautious winds creep Last Line: To everyone who comes Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations GRANDFATHER'S WORDS (YAVAPAI), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Do not be afraid of the night Last Line: If you come to me, you will be alive Subject(s): Native Americans GRANDMA'S MAN, by JAMES WELCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That day she threw the goose over the roof Last Line: But you should have seen how well his friends took it Subject(s): Native Americans GRAY MOUSE (PIMA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Gray mouse came at nightfall Last Line: Came breathing in the darkness Subject(s): Native Americans GRAY OWL (PIMA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sun sets over the land Last Line: Lifting up my heart with fear Subject(s): 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 FILLMORE STREET BUFFALO DRIVE, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insinuate the sun through fog Last Line: Upon the glacial face of the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Native Americans 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 GREAT SEA HAS SET ME IN MOTION, by UVAVNUK Poem Source Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion GREYHOUND COURSING TRIALS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Osage was coursing against this fawn greyhound Last Line: Won it!' till he saw, as I turned, the ruined foot Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians HA'INA IA MAI ANA KA PUANA: 1. A CONTEMPORARY EXPLANATION OF THE TERM, by CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU Poem Source First Line: His 'lani' in leilani was gesture Last Line: The blue eyes had arrived and 'the possibilities were endless Subject(s): Hawaii; Native Americans - Languages; Tongues; Tourists; Travel HA'INA IA MAI ANA KA PUANA: 2. WHEN LAND IS BROKERED LIKE PORK BELLIES, by CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU Poem Source First Line: Lani of leilani is body Last Line: There were possibilities Subject(s): Hawaii; Native Americans; Story-telling; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HALF-BREED GIRL, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She is free of the trap and the paddle Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Native Americans HALF-LIGHT, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: My son and I sat on the bed of a late half-light Last Line: Nourished within this half-light Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Secrets; Sons 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 HASKELL, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in kansas is a school Last Line: With head hung, to the dormitory. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Kansas; Native Americans - Education HAUNTING FULL BLOOD, by SUZANNE RANCOURT Poem Source First Line: Oh. Indian woman that sold butter Last Line: Where my grandmothers bathed %and the rocks are that smooth Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage HE CHANGED THE WHIRL IN MY PALM, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Hands chiseled from earthen clay Last Line: Lost child %finding home Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians HE IS GONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I might grieve Last Line: That he is gone, %my lover Subject(s): Native Americans HE STARED AT ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My dear friend, %your husband Last Line: Will you throw him away? Subject(s): Native Americans HEAR THE MOTHER / TLINGIT SONGS, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You dream about your own death so you can come home Last Line: Here comes a rich man shhhhhh it's all gone Subject(s): Native Americans HEARD POEM, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: I used %to have %a cherokee Last Line: A road sign %three miles %away' Subject(s): Native Americans HEART, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Fragrant %flower Last Line: Open at %midnight Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans HEAVEN AND HELL, by PABLO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: That morning their sighs Last Line: Like a house built of cards Subject(s): Native Americans; Peru 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 HELLO, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Tahui %tahui Last Line: Tahui %tahui Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans HEMINGWAY SYNDROME, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Inside the bleached board shack Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco HER NAME IS HELEN, by BETH BRANT Poem Source Last Line: Helen takes pictures of herself fire Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans HER WAKE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Dead awake at four in the morning Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco HERBS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: In the market %herbs begin Last Line: Over and over %my own %back bones Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans HERE IS A GOOD WORD FOR STEP-AND-A-HALF WALESKI, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At first we all wondered what country or town Last Line: And lay these things out on her table, and fit %each oddment to each to resemble a life Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Native Americans 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 HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror Last Line: Of never having a home Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations HERNANDO RUIZ DE ALARCON, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: It was you %you were looking for Last Line: This cenzontle bird %in the wilderness: %your tomorrow Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans HIDES, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: I can't say I'm of the bear clan or the elk people Last Line: If only through the imagination in your own head Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage HIGH PLAINS WEATHER REPORT, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I'm getting colder Last Line: Screaming yeeeee-haaaaa Variant Title(s): High Plains Weather Report: Elements Of Madness In The Ai Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco HISTORY 24001, by ANDREW STEINMETZ Poem Source First Line: Native american %verbally abusive Last Line: Lives on %reservation %over by the golf course Subject(s): Native Americans HISTORY OF UNCHI, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: They say %that storytellers such as she Last Line: Of glorious songs %and children? Subject(s): Native Americans HOLOCAUST, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Your eyes %don't see Last Line: Bleeding in %your altar %vases %fields mines Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans HOME SPIRIT, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: You lock %windows %doors Last Line: But I'm %inside you: %am you Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans HOMELANDS AND FAMILY, by ANNE WATERS Poem Source First Line: These are our stories Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans HOOKIN' HONKIES, by CHARLOTTE DECLUE Poem Source First Line: A young cheyenne woman %signs the lord's prayer Last Line: (now that I know) %...A-m-e-n Subject(s): Native Americans HOOP DANCER, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard to enter %circling clockwise and counter Last Line: Out of time, out of %time, out %of time Subject(s): Native Americans HOPI SNAKE DANCE, by J. MORRIS RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: Waiting, uncomfortably waiting Last Line: Some lonely butte or hill. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion HORSES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1,000 ponies, the united states cavalry stole 1,000 ponies Last Line: No horses I own / no horses Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Cowboys; Horses; Native Americans - Reservations; Native Americans - Wars; Revenge HORSES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1,000 ponies, the united states cavalry stole 1,000 ponies Last Line: No horses, I own %no horses Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Cowboys; Horses; Native Americans - Reservations; Native Americans - Wars; Revenge HORSESHOES, by JOE DALE TATE NEVAQUAYA Poem Source First Line: We baled hay that summer of black flesh Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans 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 ART OPENS RUBY'S EYE, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Invited to see art though native Last Line: I swallow %as my brother sells his art Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians HOW I CAME TO HAVE A MAN'S NAME, by EMMA LEE WARRIOR Poem Source First Line: It's a good thind dad deserted mon Subject(s): Birth; Names; Native Americans - Children HOW RUBY SAVES LAUGHTER, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: I have a ponca friend named sailor Last Line: And more people need to laugh Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians HOW THE MAN BROKE HORSES, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: He rode the familiar plain toward Last Line: To ride a horse down. Reverently Subject(s): Native Americans 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 HOW US HALFBREEDS ARE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Tears upon the dry sponge of heart Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco HOW VERDELL AND DOCTOR ZHIVAGO DISASSEMBLED THE SOVIET UNION, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Last year, before cruising to the warehouse Last Line: Of the soviet union that spring Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 HUNTER'S DANCE IN EARLY FALL, by DEBRA HAALAND TOYA Poem Source First Line: Ga-wash-truht in mesita, in early fall Last Line: I sleep under the scintillating sky %awaiting the eastern light and my dance Subject(s): Hunting; Native Americans I AM AFRAID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Supernatural I AM AS BRAVE AS OTHER MEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Men who are brave and heroic Last Line: I also %I also consider myself to be Subject(s): Native Americans I AM OF THE REHOUSE CLAN, by MAZZI/REX LEE JIM Poem Source Last Line: I am from the household of hastin ohodiiteel Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage I AM THE MOON (SIOUX), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here I am %behold me Last Line: Behold me Subject(s): Native Americans I ARISE FROM REST WITH MOVEMENTS SWIFT', by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Now whitening in the sky Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans I CAN CHARM THE MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: He is completely fascinated by me Subject(s): Native Americans I CAN TOUCH SOMETHING, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: In the distance Subject(s): Native Americans; Riddles; Sight I FLEW INTO DENVER APRIL, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco I FLY UP I FLY UP, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: I ring my small bell Subject(s): Mosquitoes; Native Americans; Riddles I HAVE CONQUERED THEM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Well, a war party Last Line: I have obliterated every trace of them Subject(s): Native Americans I HAVE PICKED A BOUQUET FOR YOU, by RICHARD LA FORTUNE Poem Source Subject(s): Homosexuality; 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 SEE AN INDIAN GIRL I USED TO KNOW NEAR LARIMER STREET IN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The sly goddess darkness Last Line: Adn still talked to his brothers and sisters Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 WAS THINKING ABOUT DEATH AGAIN, by NILA NORTHSUN Poem Source First Line: There's so many ways to do it Last Line: I'm glad I don't believe in hell Subject(s): Native Americans I WATCHED THE WHITE DOGS OF THE DAWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans I WILL BRING YOU TWIN GRAYS, by MARLA BIG BOY Poem Source First Line: When the osages captured you at the stream Last Line: Then I'll come to bring you home. %my sister Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Native Americans - Women; Prisons And Prisoners I WILL GO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If that is the enemy Last Line: Here %I am Subject(s): Native Americans I'M NOT REALLY CRYING, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: It's just %the sheer Last Line: Number %of chopped %onions %in the world Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans IF I AM BEATEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I will go home Last Line: After more articles %to wager Subject(s): 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 IMPRESSIONS OF THE PEYOTE RITUAL, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: Oh heavenly father %bless us your children Last Line: To meet the %coming days Subject(s): 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 IN 1841 WASHOE CHILDREN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1844, explorers john fremont and kit carson discovered lake tahoe Last Line: Found what was not lost Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Explorers; Native Americans IN IXTLI YOLLOTL/ FACE AND HEART, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: May our ears %hear Last Line: To this huge %playground: %the universe Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 AMERICAN EXPRESS LINE, by JAMES WELCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chrysanthemums in her crimson hair Last Line: I touched her hip. The day fired Subject(s): Native Americans IN THE BEGINNING (MBYA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He brought the screech owl to rest Last Line: He made the cradle of darkness Subject(s): Native Americans IN THE BLOOD, by C. J. BERKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm indian. %I know I don't look it Last Line: In a corner %of the attic Subject(s): Native Americans; Ranch Life IN THE BLUE NIGHT (PAPAGO), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How shall I begin my song Last Line: I will sit here and begin my song Subject(s): Native Americans 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 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Sobs %woke me Last Line: I got up %and saw %myself %in a corner %crying Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans IN THE NAME OF GOD, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The american presidemt and the cabinet Last Line: The sweet omen of religion and liberty, %will stink to the world Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest IN THE NEW WORLD, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: In that dream a boy my age rose from sleep Last Line: Oh spirits of anger, pride, take me back %into the distant tribes; dream me again Subject(s): Books; Dreams; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Poetry And Poets IN XOCHITL IN CUICATL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Every tree %a brother Last Line: In the night %dreaming up %the cosmos Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans INDIAN AND THE TROUT, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The president at the break of day Last Line: Turning the heads of the giddy trout Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest INDIAN BLOOD (2), by MARY TALLMOUNTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbird teacher / white claw waving Last Line: Indian blood Alternate Author Name(s): Randle, Mary Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Children; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations; Students INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL: THE RUNAWAYS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home's the place we head for in our sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Education; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Students INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL: THE RUNAWAYS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Home's the place we head for in our sleep Last Line: Face before it hardened, pale, remembering %delicate old injuries, the spines of names and leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Education; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations INDIAN CEMETERY; LOVELOCK, NEVADA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I'm at that place I grew up to leave Last Line: I will bury my old pain in her Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco INDIAN CHILDREN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Where we walk to school each day Last Line: Where we live and work and play! Subject(s): January; Native Americans - Children INDIAN COLLEGE BLUES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Friday's all-staff meeting dissolves Last Line: Of our indian race %until the meeting so mercifully ends Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco INDIAN COUNTRY: THAT DARK ROMANTIC CHASM, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They came from england, sweden, france, 'america' Last Line: A gentle earth, %with flowers %yet once more Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians INDIAN DEATH-SONG, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day Last Line: And thy son, oh alknomook! Has scorn'd to complain Subject(s): Native Americans INDIAN EDUCATION BLUES, by ED EDMO Poem Source First Line: I sit your %crowded classrooms Last Line: My report card %is bad Subject(s): Native Americans - Education 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 MOM, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: She cuts beading thread with her teeth Last Line: Mending her own hoop Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians 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 RESERVATION SONG, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Who stole indian land today? I want Last Line: One cushy job to another? Subject(s): Native Americans INDIAN RESERVATION: CAUGHNAWAGA, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the braves, the faces like autumn fruit Last Line: Bleached are their living bones. About them to watch %as through a mist, the pious prosperous ghosts Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Native Americans - Reservations 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 SKY, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old squaw Subject(s): Native Americans 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 SOLILOQUY, by HORTENSE SMITH MACDOUGALL Poem Text First Line: They cling to me, those ancient memories Last Line: Great father guides me where I ought to go. Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage 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 INDIAN'S RETORT, SELS., by JONES VERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white man's soul, it thirsts for gain Last Line: The white man steals, his is the name! Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest 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 JOHN FANDEL Poem Source First Line: Margaret mentioned indians Last Line: Shone in the morning %suns before this morning Subject(s): Native Americans INDIANS, by ROXY GORDON Poem Source First Line: Hank williams was an indian Last Line: Living is indian, %expecting to live forever ain't Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage 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 COME DOWN FROM MIXCO, by MIGUEL ANGEL ASTURIAS Poem Source Last Line: Like a silken serpent Subject(s): Native Americans INDIANS COME DOWN FROM MIXCO, by MIGUEL ANGEL ASTURIAS Poem Source Subject(s): Native Americans INDIANS IN THE WOODS, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the woods, the woods Last Line: Needle and leaf and vine Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Native Americans 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 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 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 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 INVOCATION: NAVAJO PRAYER, by GRACE BOYNE Poem Source First Line: Talking god, speaking god Last Line: Above me, there will be beauty Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion 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 IT HAS COME TO THIS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Three days a week I imprison you Last Line: The snakiest lonesome blues on earth Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco IT IS NOT CLEAR, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: This mongrel dog scurries under lamplight Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco IT IS TRUE THAT WOMEN HAVE ALWAYS HAD A, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source Last Line: Having many children and numerous relatives, and she had neither Subject(s): Native Americans IT LOOKS LIKE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: A star in the water Subject(s): Eyes; Fishing And Fishermen; Native Americans; Riddles JAMES BAY CREE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: And their neighbors, the naskapi Last Line: At the latter day %upon the earth.' Subject(s): Native Americans 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 JENNY HOLZER INSPIRATION, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Circles %linking people in a room Last Line: Quiet %+ shut up Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians JESUS SAVES OR DON'T ASK ME TO JOIN AA AND BE A FOOL, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: I told you once, there is a trend Last Line: I think I'll sing a forty-nine instead Subject(s): Native Americans JETLINER FROM ANGEL CITY, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earthborn of white %titanium sand in magnesium shell from Last Line: Your silver dove returning to the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians JOE BABES, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Joe babes, the ones named %jolene, rena mae, juanita or loretta Last Line: We were the joe babes. %all of us Subject(s): Children; Culture Conflict; Government; Native Americans - Reservations; Schools 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 JOURNEY, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: In each village there was a large, well-kept courtyard, something like Last Line: Here I'm watching you %I oxomoco %I, the ancient one %I, cipactonal Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans JOURNEY: 1. DREAM, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Wet, sickly %smells of cattle-yard silage fill the prairie air Last Line: To dim the river's glare, a malady of modern times Subject(s): Native Americans JOURNEY: 2. MEMORY, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Dancers with cane whistles Last Line: And seek the house of relatives to stay the night Subject(s): Native Americans JOURNEY: 3. SACRISTANS, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: This journey through another world, beyond bad dreams Last Line: Of incense burners. Migrations make %new citizens of rome Subject(s): Native Americans JOURNEYS OF THE MIND, by ANNE WATERS Poem Source First Line: You cannot %extricate Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans 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 JULY DAWN, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a waning crescent Last Line: When curved toward the full it sharpens Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian JULY DAWN, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a waning crescent Last Line: Swift to that cluster of evenings %when curved toward the full it sharpens Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian KACHINAS, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN Poem Source First Line: They are the ancient essence of the world Last Line: Embracing sacred dark and starry shield Subject(s): Native Americans; Presence; Spirituality 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 KATUN PROPHECIES, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Mayas; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans KAYAK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Over the briny wave I go Subject(s): Eskimos; Kayaks; Native Americans KAYENTA, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN Poem Source First Line: So we arrived around six, having seen Last Line: And the extreme commotions of the clouds Subject(s): Native Americans; West (u.s.) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 1. SALUTATIONS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Are of two sorts and come immediatley before the body. The pro Last Line: So slow otherwise %so close Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 10. OF THE SEASON OF THE YEERE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They have thirteen moneths and are content to settle for Last Line: Membranes %undercuts the alibi Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 11. OF TRAVELL, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: What paths their swift of foot have cut in history and philosophy Last Line: Inside and add %it up to zero Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 12. CONCERNING THE HEAVENS AND, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Which they adore, above acknowledging colonization. The stellar Last Line: Take territory %from imperative Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 13. OF THE WEATHER, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: It may bee wondred why, new england being 12 neerer to Last Line: Big masculine history %on tap Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 14. OF THE WINDS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Accounts for eight cardinalls flying out of context though Last Line: Tongue tied %into another language Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 15. OF FOWLE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Auchaui. Gone afowling. The crows eat up the sky, and Last Line: Of certain planets %totally opaque Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 16. OF THE EARTH AND FRUITS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They are exact and punctual in the bounds of property and Last Line: All terms are %physical Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 17. OF BEASTS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Netasuog. Cattell. Is the name the indians give tame beasts Last Line: Though without clear %direction into prey Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 18. OF THE SEA, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: A site of passage, of dreadful to move on, of depth between Last Line: Beyond displacement %in exchange Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Sea; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 19. OF FISH AND FISHING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Rising from sleep teeming with cold, bass, mackerel, salmon Last Line: As equal opportunity Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 2. OF EATING AND ENTERTAINMENT, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Indian corne, boiled with free will and predestination is a Last Line: All flesh considered %as a value Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 20. OF THEIR NAKEDNESSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They have a two-fold nakednesse they scan for traces of the Last Line: It's for the birds to flock %a semblance %of together Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 21. OF RELIGION, THE SOULE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They won't deny englishman's god made english men, but Last Line: With curtains drawn %to higher aspirations Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 22. OF THEIR GOVERNMENT AND, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Caunounicus, the elder sachim, far removed from probability Last Line: The elements lie %evenly in periods Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 23. OF MARRIAGE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Flesh, considered as cognitive region, as opposed to undifferentiated Last Line: Through periods of waxing and weaning Subject(s): Language; Marriage; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 24. CONCERNING THEIR COYNE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Indians are ignorant of europe's coyne yet call it moneash Last Line: Does not differ Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 25. OF BUYING AND SELLING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Amongst themselves they trade great plains of experience Last Line: Cosaumawem. You aske too much Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 26. OF DEBTS AND TRUSTING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They are desirous to come into debt and have bequeathed Last Line: Of keeping warm not infinite Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 27. OF THEIR HUNTING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: First they pursue their game in grammatical components when they drive the wood Last Line: And home, time and %the western world Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 28. OF THEIR GAMING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Their public games, whether cards (rushes), dice or football Last Line: A necessary part %of the material world Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 29. OF THEIR WARRE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Surplus valor comes as messenger and heaves ambush. Shottash Last Line: My self the self of others Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 3. CONCERNING SLEEPE AND LODGING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They will sleepe without the doores, above sea-level, with Last Line: An empty %promise %lodged against me Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 30. OF THEIR PAINTINGS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: 1. They paint their garments Last Line: Refinanced memory %washes white Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 31. OF SICKNESSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: The indians' misery appeares they have no physick other Last Line: By fatigue %at this point %of the instep Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 32. OF DEATH AND BURIALL, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: He that hath death in his house blackes his face. Soot clotted Last Line: Be understood forward %or backward Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 4. OF THEIR NUMBERS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Without the help of wall street, how quick they are in Last Line: Could come apart %and tell %their seeds Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 5. OF THEIR RELATIONS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They hold it red and wear it on their skin, a bond prey to Last Line: To make it safe to have a self Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 6. OF THE FAMILY AND BUSINESSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: A sloemne word, family, that no one trained to explore celestial Last Line: Their gums their genes their lovingly Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 7. OF THEIR PERSONS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Great bunch of hayre raked from darkness, yet as organized Last Line: Like fog in anywhere Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 8. OF DISCOURSE AND NEWES, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Tiding on condition, a corresponding sign to sound which our Last Line: Matter how %he can't forget Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 9. OF THE TIME OF THE DAY, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: How high the sun Last Line: The frame around the body Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Time; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEYA PI, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: I stood %watching the strays,' Last Line: She was kiowa, anyway Subject(s): Native Americans KILLDEER IN SNOW, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: His jeering song connects the wintered earth Last Line: When seething waters %rose to meet %his cries Subject(s): Native Americans KIOWA 49 SONGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To heck with your ole wife (or ole man) Last Line: Look toward my way and smile Subject(s): 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 KLALLAM SONG, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O woman who sleeps in my heart Subject(s): Native Americans KOKOPELLI, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN Poem Source First Line: Kokopelli, humpbacked dancer from a past Last Line: In the wilderness, as if it would not end Subject(s): Native Americans; West (u.s.) KQ, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: I wonder at the color of the heart, the way it whispers Last Line: Like spirals and whirls, just stirring it up Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians LADY IN KICKING HORSE RESERVOIR, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not my hands but green across you now Last Line: And their tongues are teasing oil from whales Subject(s): Drowning; Montana; Native Americans - Reservations 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 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 LAMENT OF A MAN FOR HIS SON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Son, my son! Subject(s): Fathers; Native Americans LAND, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: Torn, tattered, yet rugged Last Line: And young muskrats sterilized, and fields Subject(s): Native Americans LANGUAGE AND OTHER REDEMPTIVE THINGS, by JR. AUGUSTINE PALMER Poem Source First Line: The pasture below our house Last Line: That is all there is to it Subject(s): Native Americans 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 LAST REMARKABLE MAN, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Old hunka' of the people Last Line: We speak of you in pre-poetic ritual Subject(s): 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 LAST SONG OF THE DOVE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: During the second week of jets Last Line: Six weeks later it was all but forgotten Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco LAST WORD, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: You'll never play paganini's guitar Last Line: I'll walk by as if I never knew you Subject(s): Native Americans LAST WORD, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: He was an ornery cuss Last Line: The very last word he said was, 'doris' Subject(s): Native Americans LEGEND PEOPLE, by JR. AUGUSTINE PALMER Poem Source First Line: Possessed of a kind of magic Last Line: Come this far, %this far Subject(s): Native Americans LIE OF THE COMMON LANGUAGE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Yes, the boos said Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco LIKE GHOSTS OF EAGLES, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The indians have mostly gone Last Line: Those mighty whisperers %missouri, mississippi Subject(s): Environment; Language; Native Americans 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 LIQUID CRYSTAL THOUGHTS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Looking through windshields at sixty-three Last Line: All venice, titian's colors and the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Aging; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Vision LISTEN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Every %landscape Last Line: A wonderous %story Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans LISTEN:, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: In the other world Subject(s): Native Americans; Riddles; Water LISTENING TO THE DOORS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Listening to the doors, radio blasting Last Line: They were dreaming of a good used car %like maya's parents' paneled ford wagon Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco LITERAL HISTORY HAS HAD ITS SPECIAL WAY, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source Last Line: Returned to the camp and told his people that the owl spoke to him, %they knew it to be true Subject(s): 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 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 LITTLE SISTER, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: I was the youngest of nine children. The morning they found me, the Last Line: Fell and fell %afterwards Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Sisters LITTLE TOLTECS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Bees are %godly %servants %of the flowers Last Line: The incantaions %of the beehives %he knew better %than his ave marias Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 LOGIC, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: A sioux woman, at Last Line: Did you not come all the way here to be killed?' Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; War LONG WAY, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: We seldom mentioned him, %my favorite uncle Last Line: At different times of the day %everlastingly %toward the sun Subject(s): Native Americans LOOKING BACK ON THE MUCKLESHOOT RESERVATION FROM GALISTEO STREET, SANTA FE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bow of a muckleshoot canoe, blessed Subject(s): Native Americans - Reservations LOOKING BEFORE AND AFTER, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the new pond-dam a trickle Last Line: Butterfly of shadows tastes %sweet light again Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians LOOKING FOR JUDAS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Weathered gray, the wooden walls Last Line: Or something like that Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco LOS ANGELES, 1980, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The death culture swarms Last Line: The dying grows silent %around us %and we walk %still believing it need not be Subject(s): Native Americans LOS CHAYULES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: At dusk above the lake gray tenuous clouds come by Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 AND WAR, by MYRT WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Young crow warriors rode into war Last Line: We didn't raise you right Subject(s): Children; Native Americans; Ranch Life LOVE MEDICINE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still it is raining lightly Last Line: The rain ceases. Sister, there is nothing %I would not do Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Native Americans LOVE SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I will go and talk with Last Line: My sweetheart %the widow Subject(s): Native Americans 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 LOVE STRIKES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In golden gate park Last Line: That's what she said. %that's what she said Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco LULLABY (LAKOTA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A-wa wa wa %be still Last Line: Be still %sleep Subject(s): Native Americans LULLABY OF A DOG TO HER PUP (CROW), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here, %you like to be nursed Last Line: You wobbly one Subject(s): Native Americans 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 FOX, by JAMES WELCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They shook the green leaves down Last Line: And this: fish not fish but stars %that fell into their dreams Subject(s): Native Americans 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 MAKE BELIEVE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Curtain rises! %the ceaseless rolling of a rock Last Line: The play which deserves no re-runs %is sold out Subject(s): Native Americans MAKING A NAME, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The authors of this story are Last Line: With real live indians, this time? Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians MAKING QUILTWORK, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the coat of many colors, the letters, scraps Last Line: Like the coat of many colors, the letters, scraps Subject(s): Quilts; Native Americans MAMA FAILED TO KILL THE RAT, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source Last Line: I hear rats gnawing the floor Subject(s): Native Americans MAN FROM WASHINGTON, by JAMES WELCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The end came easy for most of us Last Line: A world of money, promise and disease Subject(s): Men; Native Americans; War MAN WHO STAYED AT HOME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Although %jingwa' be Last Line: Certainly %takes all his attention Subject(s): 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 MANDAN CHIEF, by FRANCES JANE CROSBY Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: He mounts his favorite steed of war Last Line: Then falls, to rise no more Alternate Author Name(s): Van Alstyne, Frances Jane, Mrs.; Crosby, Fanny Subject(s): Native Americans; Small Pox MANDAN PRIEST, by EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON Poem Source First Line: They call me now the indian priest Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion MANE STORY, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Straight hair, black hair, brown hair, coarse hair, horse hair Last Line: Over paper is the sound of seeds tumbling inside a dry gourd Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Ethnic Identity; Native Americans - Women MANIBUSH AND THE GRANDMOTHER, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With keen ankles %dividing weed and weed Last Line: I watch the flashing %in the grass Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Native Americans 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 MARGARET/HASKELL INDIAN SCHOOL, by CAROLYN MARIE DUNN Poem Source First Line: I am wandering Last Line: Bright stars %noya, noya Subject(s): Native Americans - Education MARIO SAVIO, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Here in america, as I stand Last Line: And mario savio is dead Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco MARK ATHERTON, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of one who went to do deliberate wrong Last Line: And treachery answered so with treachery. Subject(s): Kidnapping; Betrayal; Vengeance; Native Americans MARRIAGE OF POCAHONTAS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These episodes are taken Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617) MARTIN DE LUNA, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Martin de luna Last Line: (take me now %from this cell %and lose me %in the darkness) Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MARY MAGDALENE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wash your ankles %with my tears. Unhem Last Line: By wrecking their bodies on other men Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Native Americans; Women - Bible MASQUERADE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: After decades of wearing the veiled mask Last Line: Resolve of translating no more %the fateful script Subject(s): Native Americans MASSAGE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Hands put %our pains Last Line: Lead them %as fish to %whirlpools Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MATRIARCH, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: My dark %grandmother %would brush %her long her Last Line: Even ferns %would bow %to her splendor %and her power Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Moon of green leaves,' so Last Line: Spoke your name, dear month of may. Subject(s): May (month); Native Americans - Children MEDICINE SONG, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Because all my alzheimer's books Last Line: I cannot or will not now say Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco MEDICINE SONG (PIMA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Moonlight stands shining inside me Last Line: Far distant moon down to meet me Subject(s): Native Americans MEMENTO MORI, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: West of the missouri Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco MENNEN SKIN BRACER, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Having a boyfriend meant holding hands at the movies Last Line: Of my first dance at the indian school gym Subject(s): Adolescence; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Native Americans - Women MESSAGE TO SPRING, OR, THE CHOCTAW VIRGIN MOON, by JR. AUGUSTINE PALMER Poem Source First Line: Full being a whole month %being with you Last Line: Did I catch you napping there? Subject(s): Native Americans MESSENGERS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Chairs %doors %walls %lay %themselves Last Line: Murmurs %secrets %bits of %dreams %to each %other Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MESSIAH, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: When I shadow box Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco MESTIZO, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: My name %is not %francisco Last Line: No rule %no code %no lord %for this %wander's %heart Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 MID-AMERICA PRAYER, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing again / within and among all things Last Line: Strength, vision, unity and continuance Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Togetherness 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 MIDNIGHT SUN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My ephemeral beauty Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans MIDNIGHT WATER SONG, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: The eagle's %wing is %my fan Last Line: Of peyote's %flowering rain %in the desert Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MISBEGOTTEN SONNET, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: There's not much sense to love Last Line: A clean apron over a dirty dress Subject(s): Native Americans MMMMM...WHITEMAN'S POWWOW, by CHARLOTTE DECLUE Poem Source First Line: Star quilt %hanging above empty chutes Last Line: They'll be a'9 %when the dance turns red Subject(s): Native Americans MODERN ON THE SURFACE (2), by NIA FRANCISCO Poem Source First Line: Vibrant naive naabeeho women Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Youth MOGG MEGONE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who stands on that cliff, like a figure of stone Last Line: Ruth boniton is dead! Subject(s): Death; Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans - Wars; New England; Norridgewock, Maine; Penobscot Bay, Maine; Rale, Sebastien (1654-1724); Saco (river), New Hampshire And Maine; U.s. - Colonial Period; Waterfalls; Dead, The MOMENT, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Silently, the day so sunless spirits weep Last Line: When we were children %of prairie hawks Subject(s): Native Americans 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 MOON, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Celestial %drop of milk Last Line: Of our mother's %breast Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MORNING RITUAL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I fold %kiss %carry Last Line: My life %inside %my pocket Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 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 MORTIFICATION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone dies & %then a cat dies Last Line: Book again, being in the same place Subject(s): Native Americans; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers MOSQUITOES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To keep them from you Last Line: I will be still as a stone %at the edge of water %watching my blood carried into air Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans MOTHER AND CHILD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A pregnant woman brought forth a child Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans MOTHER OF MOSQUITOS, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Woman %swat. %why mosquito fly near us? Last Line: Your life is our blood Subject(s): Forests; History; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 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 MOUNT AGIOCHOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray searcher of the upper air Last Line: Dwell the strange gods of heathendom! Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion; White Mountains, New Hampshire MOUNT RUSHMORE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Owls hang in the night air Last Line: A cenotaph becomes the tourist temple %of the profane Subject(s): 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 MOVING CAMP TOO FAR, by NILA NORTHSUN Poem Source First Line: I can't speak of many moons Last Line: & unfortunately %I do Subject(s): Native Americans MUFFLED THUNDER, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: In the hills %sounding close and friendly Last Line: Like anguished relatives %who know my wounds Subject(s): Native Americans MUSEUM BOUND, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: Summer clownwinds Last Line: We are museum bound Subject(s): Museums; Native Americans 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 MUTED WAR DRUMS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: A brown woman %with bleached hair Last Line: Of their empty heart %like muted war drums Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 MY BROTHER SHAKES THE BOTTLE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Davis is wearing his best irrelevant boots and jacket Last Line: All over %himself Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Native Americans MY FLIGHT, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: How can I know %what keeps me disengaged, fleeing Last Line: That little horse sang %I will be there Subject(s): Native Americans MY GRANDMOTHER'S BURIAL GROUND: PAUL WAHUKEZATININKEYA, JULY 12, 1892, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: I walked beside the stone Last Line: And dried skins of crows Subject(s): Native Americans MY LOVE HAS DEPARTED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A loon I thought it was. A loon I thought it was Last Line: But it was never again, my love's splashing oar Subject(s): Native Americans MY PREVIOUS LIFE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: When I was thirty, my slim bone and muscle Last Line: Acknowledgement that nothing matters except the love of those %who love you Subject(s): Native Americans MY RIGHT HAND DON'T LEAVE ME NO MORE, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you were drunk, you could always whip joe louis Last Line: And did not help. You died bringing in wood for the fire Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians MY RUG MAKER FINE, by BEN THE DANCER Poem Source First Line: Slowly as I laid my head Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans MY SKIN IS SILVER, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: My heart all gold Subject(s): Eggs; Native Americans; Riddles MYTHMAKERS, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: There is a ball game %played with a sacred ball Last Line: Of slaves and warlords %with sweet pride Subject(s): Native Americans MYTHOLOGY OF THE ETERNAL HOMELANDS: 1. FIRST THE LOON DIVED, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Uncheda, born one hundred years Last Line: Rainbow to the monsters %of the other side Subject(s): Native Americans MYTHOLOGY OF THE ETERNAL HOMELANDS: 2. SO THE MUSKRAT DIVED, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Though the agency town %still called 'the Last Line: We talk of apostates %and the price we paid Subject(s): Native Americans NAHUAL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: This whale %can't stop Last Line: Singing %from %the bottom %of the sea Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans NAME GIVEAWAY, by PHILLIP WILLIAM GEORGE Poem Source First Line: That teacher gave me a new name - again Last Line: Must be a name too hard to remember Subject(s): Education; Names; Native Americans; Schools 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 NAMES, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Lou hon, suzie, cherry, doughnut, woody, wabbit, jackie Last Line: Chee, 'atsidi, tapahonso, haabaah, hastiin neez Subject(s): Children; Names; Native Americans - Children; Native Americans - Education; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations NATIONAL MONUMENT, by MILDRED M. JEFFREY Poem Source First Line: My head is full of apaches Last Line: Head of cochise said the plaque Subject(s): Native Americans - History NATIVE AMERICAN BROADCASTING SYSTEM, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five hundred years from now, archaeologists will discover Last Line: The grasses grow %the rivers flow Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Cherokee Indians; Greyhounds; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Nuclear War; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel NATIVE SONG, by JOHN CONSTANTINE MASTOR Poem Source First Line: The land was stolen & Last Line: Dispersal from their land %a proud people stand tall Subject(s): Native Americans - History NATIVE WRITER, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: If I closed my eyes, the voice might have been Last Line: Walrus hunts. Typical bering straits stuff Subject(s): Native Americans; Writing And Writers NATURE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: The nature %of poetry's %nature Last Line: The nature %of nature's %nature Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 MUSIC, by KYLE GRANT WILSON Poem Source First Line: In the absence of color Last Line: To the circle %of other lives Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians 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 NAVIGATION OF EXILE, by DAWN KARIMA PETTIGREW Poem Source First Line: I've got qualla boundary all wrapped up Last Line: Catch enough fire %to burn for home Subject(s): Native Americans - Reservations NEAR EIGHTEENTH STREET, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Them home boys at it again Last Line: Brainshot your sweet daughter dead Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco NEAR SHERIDAN, WYOMING, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Buffalo grass, tall and ripening in the sun Last Line: Still able to catch the seeds of scrubby pines %and hold them Subject(s): Native Americans NECER ALONE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Always %this caressing Last Line: This boudless %desire %of being %grass %tree %corazon Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 NEVADA, by NILA NORTHSUN Poem Source First Line: Dust & cracked earth Last Line: & the bluest skies this side of heaven Subject(s): Native Americans NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Last Line: And deer walking quietly on the soft red earth Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations NEW DAY, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: From the hilltop %near my village Last Line: Their own campfires %awaiting %for the new day! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 MEXICAN MOUNTAIN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the indians dancing to help the young corn at taos pueblo Last Line: Tribal drum, and the rockhead of taos mountain, remember that civilization is a transient sickness Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; New Mexico; Tourists 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 NEWSPAPER DEATHS, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: I can flip my life back to the page Last Line: And the police just added another number to their records Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; News; Newspapers NEZ WANTED TO BREAK IN, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We're people, not like them Subject(s): Native Americans NIGHT, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: How vast %how enormous Last Line: And yet %disarmed %by one %needle %of light Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans NIGHT CHARM (OMAHA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Night moving Last Line: Come moving %here Subject(s): Native Americans NIGHT DRUMMING FOR RAIN (PIMA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hi-iya nai-ho-o Last Line: Everywhere raining Subject(s): Native Americans NIGHT OF THE COMET, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: For weeks the people %watched the comet Last Line: They were never seen again Subject(s): Comets; Native Americans; San Francisco 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 NIGHT OUT, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen you in the palms of my hands Last Line: You have paid the cover charge thousands of times over %withyour lives %and now you are afraid %you Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Native Americans NIGHT PRAYER (ZUNI), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This night %we have fulfilled the thoughts Last Line: Happily we shall always live Subject(s): Native Americans NIGHT SONG TO BRING RAIN (PAPAGO), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The sun is setting Last Line: Speedily it moves Subject(s): Native Americans NIGHT SONGS BEGIN (PIMA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hurry %come out Last Line: Goes down %echoes Subject(s): Native Americans NIGHT TRAVEL, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: I like to travel to l.A. Myself Last Line: Pollutes my breath %yet I still witness the white dawning Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians NIGHTHAWK (YAQUI), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When fresh night arrives Last Line: Nighthawk, nighthawk Subject(s): Native Americans NO PAROLE TODAY, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: A shadow of smoke passed Last Line: A thousand men uncapped themselves behind barbed wire and smoke Subject(s): California; Justice; Native Americans; Prisons And Prisoners; Racism; Riots NOISE OF THE VILLAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whenever I pause Last Line: Whenever I pause Subject(s): Native Americans NOMATCA NEHUATL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself: %the mountain Last Line: The search %the face %the dream %the heart %the voice: %nomatca nehuatl! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 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 NOT EVERYTHING, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: In the world %had to have a beginning because Last Line: Giving some of his power away Subject(s): Native Americans NOT POEMS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Just ink %on paper Last Line: Like air %like you Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans NOTE TO A YOUNG REZ ARTIST, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Hey, I thought they were eagles circling Last Line: This mother called earth Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco NOTHING IS TAKEN THAT IS NOT GIVEN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rap beat of arrested development flared through the red Last Line: Nothing was taken that was not given Subject(s): Anthropology; Ethnic Identity; Explorers; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel NOVEMBER DAY, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: So dry we couldn't weep-or curse Last Line: Immutably, I think of this %on all november days and more Subject(s): Native Americans O MOTHER EARTH, by LAWRENCE WILLIAM O'CONNOR Poem Source First Line: Never will I plow the earth Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans ODE TO TOMATOES, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: They make %friends Last Line: First asking %their blessings! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans; Tomatoes OF THE INCANS: ON THE CONQUEST OF PERU, by JEAN GARRIGUE Poem Source First Line: By what malignancy of secret orders Last Line: The conquest's course before it plunged %to the crevasses that had once been spanned Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian OJIBWAY VILLAGE, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Among gray cones %odor of sweet grass %and warm bodies Last Line: These bodies, so still %in the deluge %of fine air Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians OJISTOH, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am ojistoh, I am she, the wife Last Line: ^1^ god, in the mohawk language. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Duplicity; Hate; Marriage; Native Americans - Women; Deceit; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Squaws 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 OKLAHOMA TWILIGHTS, I, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: Near wewoka in the first storm I have witnessed since Last Line: From a swaying treeline Subject(s): Native Americans 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 CHEROKEE WOMAN'S SONG, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have taken my land Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal OLD INDIAN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Told me (he was an onan- %daga) that each person is Last Line: Listen the tribe will go on Subject(s): Native Americans OLD INDIAN GRANNY, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: Beginning silently with a paper cup under the viaduct Last Line: You might as well be dead Subject(s): Native Americans - Women OLD INDIAN TRICK, by RAYNA GREEN Poem Source First Line: I thought she was white Last Line: Visions of light and spirit %to wipe terror away Subject(s): Native Americans 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 POEM, by RICHARD AITSON Poem Source First Line: As a child I knew how to look around Last Line: In death my hair will grow Subject(s): Native Americans 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 MATTIE, by LAURA BULMER Poem Text First Line: She comes and sits beside my door Last Line: We smile and wish each other well. Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Squaws OLD MEDICINE SONG; AFTER A WINNEBAGO STORY, by DOLORES STEWART Poem Source First Line: Once a young man blackened his face Last Line: We no longer understand Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion 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 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 OLLIN/MOVEMENT, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I call myself %waterfall Last Line: I go on calling %names %keep hearing %my mirror Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans OLOLIUQUI, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Seeds %of wisdom %divine eyes Last Line: Lead us %back %to the lap %of our mother Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans OMATOQ'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I wanted to take Last Line: Except that little one Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans OMENS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The queen sat on her throne of england Last Line: Of its killing. Over the steaming entrails %he saw the first white man come with his guns and jails Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Native Americans ON A SACRIFICE OF DARKNESS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say you know it is not so, say Last Line: Descending, bright with knives, through a sky %as ignorant as a blind man's eye Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian ON LOOSING MY LANGUAGE, by MELISSA FAWCETT Poem Source First Line: The green-eyed viper licks the inner corners of my mouth Last Line: Where I will finally learn the story Subject(s): Native Americans - Languages ON RELOCATION, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: The physical is easier to achieve Last Line: Crossblood babies %relocated at birth Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians ON TELLY BILIIZH, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Most skins drink it drank it at least once Last Line: Probably most pleased to be released from the brick-wall sanctuary %so just do it Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians 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 ON THE PLANET OF BLUE-EYED CATS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some moons of jupiter are %as big as earth almost Last Line: To move, to learn a little of %what beings mean Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians 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 OF THE GRIM REAPER'S DISGUISES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Death does not speak %to me with meaty breath Last Line: If they're not death %I don't know what is Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco ONE WIND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One %wind Last Line: I am master of it Subject(s): Native Americans 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 ONONDAGA MADONNA, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She stands full-throated and with careless pose Last Line: He sulks, and burdened with his infant gloom, %he draws his heavy brows and will not rest Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Native Americans OPENING PRAYER OF THE SUN DANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Grandfather, %a voice I am going to send Last Line: I have said it Subject(s): Native Americans ORACLE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: It's me' %I say Last Line: It's us' %rocks echo Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans OREGON HOLLY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: As holly tells of feudal days Last Line: Has both their charms together. Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Oregon; Patriotism; West (u.s.) - Exploration 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 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 OTAGAMIAD, by JANE JOHNSTON SCHOOLCRAFT Poem Source First Line: In northern climes there liv'd a chief of fame Last Line: And try the hazard of a gen'ral war! Subject(s): Native Americans 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 FIRST FATHER (MBYA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our first father %is absolute Last Line: Within the original darkness Subject(s): Native Americans 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 OUR TONGUES SLAPPED INTO SILENCE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: In first grade I was five years old, the youngest and smallest in my class Last Line: Made sure our tongues were drowned in the murky waters of assimilation Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Culture Conflict; Language; Native Americans; Native Americans - Education; Navajo Indians; Punishment; U.s. - Race Relations OUT ON THE RUN, by CHARLOTTE DECLUE Poem Source First Line: Smokey came down the hill overlookin' Last Line: Shawnees always did come down off hills %like that Subject(s): Native Americans OVER A ROCK-POOL, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: Sits upside down Subject(s): Moon; Native Americans; Riddles OWL (PAPAGO), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Evening is growing red Last Line: I fly out and hoot at it %four times Subject(s): 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 PABST BLUE RIBBON AT WOUNDED KNEE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Between the sensual Variant Title(s): Drinking Beer At Wounded Kne Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco; Wounded Knee, Battle Of (1890) PACHACAMAC, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: Even the earth between my fingers Last Line: Almost daily on the hide %of the wise builder Subject(s): Native Americans - Reservations; Peru PACIFIC HIGHWAY: 1967, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Adrian's tears in the sand Last Line: Those pink midnight years Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco PAINT AND FEATHERS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Into a star %you have cast yourself Last Line: To where we hear you laughing Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians PANTIED ONE SAID NOTHING, NOT EVEN ITS OWN NEWLY, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Second's thought about its own rotted body Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Native Americans PAPER, by NILA NORTHSUN Poem Source First Line: The old woman told me Last Line: We'd be the bosses & %everything Subject(s): Native Americans PARADING WITH THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apache, omaha, osage, choctaw, comanche, cherokee, oglala, micmac Last Line: Absence of buffalo here in the %gateway to the west, st louis Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Variant Title(s): Parading With The V.f.w Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Depressions, Economic; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians 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 PERBERON NAMBE MORNING, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Dust, leaves twirling Last Line: Me to speak to you of %beauty Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Children; Native Americans - Education; Schools PETROGLYPHS OF SERENA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In yellowbird's store, the tart tinge Last Line: In the snug, smug darkness %of lust Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco PIMA, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: Eyes of desert night Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans PINE RIDGE LULLABY, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In my mind's frayed corral Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco PLATOON, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The camouflaged f .. Faces Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco PLAYING POCAHONTAS, by LEW BLOCKCOLSKI Poem Source First Line: Playing pocahontas was paula's weekend work Last Line: Their endless battle %and no one noticed Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617) PLEA TO THOSE WHO MATTER, by JAMES WELCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You don't know I pretend my dumb Last Line: Happy for the snow clean hands of you, my friends Subject(s): Native Americans 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 POCAHONTAS' CROSSING, by CLAIRE BATEMAN Poem Source First Line: At sea she learns diamonds: white silk on white linen Last Line: The world's end; she dances to keep from falling Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617) POEM FOR MY EX-BROTHER-IN-LAW, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: He slit the yellow belly of a rattler Last Line: And he talked to me of personal histories gone sour Subject(s): Native Americans POET HAUNTED, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ghosts are attacking me Last Line: Ghosts of myself Subject(s): Ghosts; Native Americans; Supernatural POET'S BRIEF ADDRESS TO THE STUDENTS AND FACULTY UPON THE OCCASION, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Theses and arguments %everlasting debates of moral philosophy Last Line: What art and ancestors had to do with it Subject(s): Native Americans POET'S LAMENT, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: All things considered, they said Last Line: With sitting bull dead %it was easier said Subject(s): Native Americans 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 POIGNANT BEAST, by JR. AUGUSTINE PALMER Poem Source First Line: In painting the canvas is not a picture' Last Line: He carries its path scorched white above his head Subject(s): Native Americans 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 POPEYE'S KITCHEN, A LETTER FROM THE INDIAN SCHOOL 2, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Went to the presbyterian church this morning. May jean said they served Last Line: Washing those pots and don't mess with popeye Subject(s): Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Navajo Indians; Racism; Slavery PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN AT HER BATH, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a satisfaction Last Line: The birds and the flowers / look in Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN AT HER BATH, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a satisfaction Last Line: Glad of a fellow to %marvel at %the birds and flowers %look in Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian POTENT SEEDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Few corn %kernals %enough Last Line: To turn %anger %around Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 POWWOW (TAMA RESERVATION, IOWA, 1949), by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They all see the same movies Last Line: That go with us, that do not live again Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Native Americans - Reservations PRACTICING DEATH SONGS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: My woman leaves to visit her brothers Last Line: That is why I am practicing death songs Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco PRAIRIE CHICKEN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at him there in that prairie dirt Last Line: He looks for another prairie chicken Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal PRAISE OF ONE POET FOR ANOTHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You are a red flower of burnt maize Last Line: It is only when you raise up your flowers, here in mexico %that the day flames Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian PRAYER (OMAHA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Moon, there on high Last Line: Whatever I do, only good I desire Subject(s): Native Americans PRAYER FOR A YOUNG WIFE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the damask-velvet gloom Last Line: This woman is too quick and wild. %waken her. Send her home to me Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian PRAYER FOR THE SUN BEFORE TRAVELING, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come %help me %nanhuatzin Last Line: Up in the sky %I shall go %I shall walk Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans PRAYER OF THE NAVAJOS, by LAURA ADAMS ARMER Poem Source First Line: You who dwell in the house of dawn Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion PRAYER TO FIRE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come forth %father of mine Last Line: I, spirit in flesh %I, the enchanter Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans PRAYER TO THE CREATOR (ONONDAGA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We ask you that when our bodies Last Line: Then all will be peace for us all Subject(s): Native Americans PRAYER TO THE MOUNTAIN SPIRIT, by ANONYMOUS - NATIVE AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "young man, chieftain / reared within the mountain" Last Line: Spirit of the mountains Subject(s): Mountains;native Americans - Religion;prayer; Hills;downs (great Britain) PRELUDE TO A MEMORIAL SONG; 100 YEARS LATER, by PHILLIP WILLIAM GEORGE Poem Source First Line: Before an audible sound, an almost recognizable Last Line: We %are %alive Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars PROFILE OF THE SUN AND MY AGING FATHER, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: In that moment of time %between creation and death Last Line: To reaffirm the plains' long daytime Subject(s): Native Americans PROPHECIES DELIVERED TO THE PEOPLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Burn, burn, burn Subject(s): Mayas; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans PROPHECIES FOR THE TURN OF THE YEAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If the new year Subject(s): Mayas; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans PROPHECIES RECEIVED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To the small house of nacom balam Subject(s): Mayas; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans PROPHYLAXIS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The slate afternoon rain ends Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco PROSE POEM, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Sacred and religious in form, a man with red-wrapped braids Last Line: Road from oblivion to recovery, a human quest to give back the story Subject(s): Native Americans PSEUDO SHAMAN'S CLICHE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I sit in lotus position Last Line: And not talk to flowers Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 PURE COUNTRY, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pick and shovel dug the privy-hole square Last Line: And we moved the privy on out %above its new-dug hole Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians RAINBOW, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Seven %snakes Last Line: Giving %thanks Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans RAISING THE FLAG, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: Without a winter coat Last Line: Her children were coming Subject(s): Native Americans RATIONAL, by HELEN CHALAKEE BURGESS Poem Source First Line: She don't look indian all the time Last Line: Grandma passed %... Again, twin nods Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage RAVEN BOAT, by NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER Poem Source First Line: The rapids are very scary Last Line: When they awaited the schooner Subject(s): Alaska; Boats; Native Americans; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages RECLAIMING AN OLD DEBT, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Our discussion of pleasures Last Line: No salt of tears and no eurydice, so dear, %dear lady, can I have back my heart? Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco RECONCILING, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Chalchiuhcueye %mother water Last Line: Flower of the sun %walking calendar: %don't shame yourself! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans RECUERDOS FOR THOSE OF THE FIRST WAVE, by CARLOS CUMPIAN Poem Source First Line: Wakan tanka %took three %to the other side Last Line: During life's short dream Subject(s): Chicanos; Native Americans; Poetry And Poets RECURRING NIGHTMARE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Outside the gates of even breath Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco RED BLUES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music. Then, more music. Does it matter what kind? Let's say it is bagpipes Last Line: It;s just me and my blues Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Dancing & Dancers; Native Americans; Uncles 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 FOX (WINTU), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On the stone ridge east I go Last Line: I, red fox, whistle on the road of stars Subject(s): Native Americans 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 RED ROAD: 1, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: For I have never left Last Line: Your love, for the creator Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians RED ROAD: 2, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Grandfather sun %shines and we wake up Last Line: Respect the mother earth Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians RED ROAD: COMBAT FRUSTRATION, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Look at the brighter sides of life and Last Line: Rainbow titillate %shaping and molding Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians RED ROAD: GAKINA NIN DEWEMA, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: You are my brothers, sisters Last Line: To his horizons %of freedom Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians RED ROAD: ISHKODE, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Ishkode grew up on a reservation Last Line: Walk the path. %in balance Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians RED ROAD: PREPARATION, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes when you get slapped in the Last Line: The mother earth %our %survival %begins Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians RED ROAD: SPIRIT OF GREATNESS, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: The blanket season ends Last Line: To happiness %safe %inflight Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians RED ROAD: THOUGHTS, by MILDRED 'TINKER' SCHUMAN Poem Source First Line: I wonder why %how I wonder why Last Line: Blood, bones and all are equal Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In '67 the loony moon ripened Last Line: To sneak into rockwell's %fluffy post portraits Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 REFLECTION, by MARK TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: Back when I used to be an indian Last Line: A long, black bird bursts %from my throat Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage REMEMBER, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember the sky that you were born under Last Line: Remember. Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage REMEMBERING THE SPIRIT AND THE LAND IN THE TIME OF SITTING BULL, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: From appomattox to wounded knee Last Line: Unable to run or regret. %you've got the picture Subject(s): Native Americans REPORT TO CRAZY HORSE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All the sioux were defeated. Our clan Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Native Americans - Wars REPORT TO CRAZY HORSE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the sioux were defeated. Our clan Last Line: I run my hand along those old grooves in the rock Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Native Americans - Wars RESCUE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: At the end %I found Last Line: Myself %holding %the other end %of the rope Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans RESERVATION SITUATION, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Once I would have cried Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco RESERVATION SPECIAL, by LEW BLOCKCOLSKI Poem Source First Line: The with the camera comes Last Line: With our lives and is gone %in his alphabet auto Subject(s): Native Americans - Reservations 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 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 RETURN TO THE OLD GODS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The land was very dry, the crops suffered Last Line: And kick him off the mesa Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest RETURNING THE GIFT, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An ocean and a half a continent away Last Line: Of mourning %in our ma'I Subject(s): Hawaii; Native Americans - History REVISION, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Looking back %a funny kind of whirlwind Last Line: And only when you made me listen %was I alive Subject(s): Native Americans RHETORIC LEADS TO CLICHE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The young white ranchers with chew drippings Last Line: And we don't know why Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco RITUAL FOR SINGING BAT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must we believe that what ascends aspires? Last Line: Into a misty forest of a cloud Subject(s): Soldiers; Native Americans; World War Ii; Death ROAD HAZARD, by RAYNA GREEN Poem Source First Line: The car-tape machine %plays the music I want Last Line: That will kill me %on this road Subject(s): Native Americans ROOM OF GOD AND DOOR TO HEAVEN, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Aula dei et porta coeli %open to nothingness Last Line: For my seeking %aula dei et porta coeli Subject(s): Native Americans RUBY AND CHILD, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Memory is tricky %going deep into your bones Last Line: Like old-growth trees %recording time Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians RUBY AT BAT, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Ruby plays softball Last Line: Watching over his grandchildren Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians RUBY AWAKENS, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Red %I find myself Last Line: Staring into the shiny ceramic tiled floor %looking for my memory Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians RUBY IN ME #1, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Middle child Last Line: Alcohol %resemblance Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians RUBY IN ME #2, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: From the marrow in my bones Last Line: Like petting a cat %ruby meows Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians RUBY IN THE SKY, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Empty bud cans pushing mcdonald's bags out the door Last Line: Angelic bright %dripping stars from white manes Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians RUBY ROAST, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Snapping grease Last Line: Urban indian %already eaten Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians RUBY STEW, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: At the grave with no tears Last Line: Red in stew %of my father's death Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians RUBY'S ANSWER, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Sunny day, southern california resturant, february 11, 1990. While Last Line: Ruby didn't mind getting kicked out of the resturant because she got a free lunch Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians RUBY'S BIRD CAGE, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Backroads driveabout Last Line: Buy us beer to keep our mouths shut Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians RUBY'S SUMMER FRUIT, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: I walk down the street Last Line: Down the street after beauty Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians RUBY'S WELFARE, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Standing in line %after being told Last Line: Ready to light virginia slim #3 %I'm called by window #6 Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians RUDIMENTARY LESSON IN AMERICAN INDIAN JOURNALISM, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: It was a bitter moonless night Last Line: Oh jesus, we are noble red men Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco RUINS, by IVOR ARMSTRONG RICHARDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The taste of time's beyond our wit Last Line: So leads this parable-by the fall-line too: %'all's all rehearsal for the grand adieu.' Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian RUMPELSTILTSKIN, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Straw into gold - what's technology's Last Line: Whose riddle, whose child, whose gold? Subject(s): Anthropology; California - Gold Discoveries; Native Americans; Rumpelstiltskin 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 RUTHIE RAE, MY KID, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: I first knew you in the womb Last Line: My little image %displaying my bad habits Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians 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 SACRED CIRCLE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Numanah, grandfather, grant me the grace Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 SAINT PETER TALKS ABOUT GOODNESS, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: Saint peter %sitting at heaven's door Last Line: Talks %talks %talks Subject(s): God; Heaven; Native Americans - Wars; Religion; Saints; Soldiers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) SAME, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: We see %feel taste Last Line: Are so %differently %the same Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans SAN FRANCISCO: 1969, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The heartless city by the bay is Last Line: Love %had %died Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SANCTUARY, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Sure, this is a stink town sometimes Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 SANTO DOMINGO CORN DANCE; SANTO DOMINGO PUEBLO, NEW MEXICO, by ROBERT PRESTON DICKEY Poem Source First Line: Each beat of the drum's a round drop of rain Last Line: There it comes, then it comes, and it comes Subject(s): Native Americans SARANAC LAKE, N.Y., by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: I stood outside this fancy hotel Last Line: Fighting against taking all my life Subject(s): Native Americans SAVAGE BLOOD THIRST, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The morning had taniga breath Last Line: And took three aspirins %and crawled back to bed Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SAVAGE ELOQUENCE, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: Big mountain %you old story you old Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans 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 SCALP SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I wonder %if she is humiliated Last Line: That I cut off her head Subject(s): Native Americans 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 SEER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I sweep %and clean %my house Last Line: I am resting: %my hamaca %is a canoe %crossing %the milky way Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 SENDING THE LETTER NEVER SENT, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: All I can do is moan Last Line: We believed the same %and difference only made our faith stronger Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians SEPARATION, by CHARLOTTE DECLUE Poem Source First Line: The women at work %tolerate my ways Last Line: This leaving %comes hard Subject(s): Native Americans SERPENT STORY, by SALLI M. K. BENEDICT Poem Source First Line: Many many years ago, when there was still much magic in the Last Line: So thearasakwa returned to join the lady water serpent, to live there the rest of his life Subject(s): Native Americans SEVENTH CITY OF CIBOLA, by HARRY NOYES PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where these low walls run fast to the desert sand Subject(s): Cibola (mythical City); Native Americans SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Everything comes full circle Last Line: And in everlasting love Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 SHAME, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I washed %my arms Last Line: Brown %boy %getting %ready %for school Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans SHE, by JORGE GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: What was her beauty in our first estate Last Line: And deck the broken stones like saxifrage Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian 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 SHE SPEAKS, HE LISTENS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Raving, coming down hard Last Line: & floating toward love street %to find her connection Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SHE'S REAL QUIET, A LETTER FROM THE INDIAN SCHOOL 1, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Met this girl, mae jean from saint michaels. She's real quiet. Nobody gives Last Line: Jean knows all the dos and don'ts at the indian school. Watch her Subject(s): Girls; Native Americans - Children 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 SHOOTING STAR (INUIT), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You star up yonder. You who gaze Last Line: Against. It didn't touch Subject(s): Native Americans SHOWER OF GOLD, by BARBARA HOWES Poem Source First Line: Golden, within this golden hive Last Line: The bed they know %may support agony or joy- %to bed they go Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian 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 SIDE BY SIDE, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: You soldier leaders Last Line: Playing %playing %playing Variant Title(s): Soldier Leader Subject(s): Leadership; Native Americans - Wars; Soldiers SIGNIFICANCE OF A VETERAN'S DAY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I happen to be a veteran Last Line: To survive insignificance Subject(s): Native Americans 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 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 SILENCE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I smell %silence %everywhere Last Line: Can put away %this stink %of silence Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 SIMILE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Meditation %constantly practiced %under endless overcast skies Last Line: She stretches her arms %espectedly %vividly %and begins the dance Subject(s): Native Americans SIMILE, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did we say to each other Last Line: In whose limbs there is latent flight Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Native Americans SIOUX LULLABY, by PRINCE REDCLOUD Poem Source First Line: Sleep, mi su-la Last Line: Sleep, %sleep, %sleep Subject(s): Native Americans 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 SITTING BULL AT THE CIRCUS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The treaty broken again, the lands lost Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief) SITTING BULL'S WILL VERSUS THE SIOUX TREATY .. & MONTY HALL, by A. K. REDWING Poem Source First Line: Clarence short bull died Last Line: And a vast army of granite-faced clowns Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief) SKINS AS OLD TESTAMENT, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wonder who first slid in %to use another creature's skin Last Line: Within the woman %came alive Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians SLEEP CHARM (CROW), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Late in the fall there are long rainy days Last Line: Then we could not help sleeping Subject(s): Native Americans SLEEP CHARM (HIDATSA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The first stars you see are still Last Line: When the shaking stops, they are asleep Subject(s): Native Americans SLEEP CHARM (HIDATSA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the wind passes bluffs at night Last Line: The hills are sleeping Subject(s): Native Americans SLEEP CHARMS (CROW), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The rain is dripping fast; we sleep well, don't we Last Line: We sleep well, don't we Subject(s): Native Americans SLEEP CHARMS (HIDATSA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the wind passes the missouri timber Last Line: At daylight it stops and sleeps Subject(s): Native Americans SLEEP SONG (POTAWATOMI), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Listen now %listen now to the birds Last Line: Rushing through the trees Subject(s): Native Americans SLEEP SONG (YUMA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sleep, sleep %it will carry you into Last Line: A future day and your future %family Subject(s): Native Americans SLEEP SONG (SEMINOLE), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sleep, little girl, Last Line: Sleep well. Sleep on Subject(s): 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 SNAKE WHEEL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I %you %are %this %future Last Line: Turned %past %all %that %once %was %is %will %be Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans SO I BLOW SMOKE IN HER FACE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: In the morning I race lii'litsoi across the open plain near the windmill. The Last Line: Feels good. My horse is strong and happily we make the climb up the %chooshgai Subject(s): Family Life; Fields; Horseback Riding; Native Americans - Reservations; New Mexico SOME LIKE INDIANS ENDURE, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have it in mind that %dykes are indians Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: To get things straight Last Line: For white hawk as for little crow or me Subject(s): Native Americans SOME OF WHAT WE HAVE FORGOTTEN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: There is so much we have forgotten Last Line: It is a sign of rain when horses %chase and kick each other Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SOMETHING ABOUT BEING AN INDIAN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: There's something about being an indian Last Line: A place we call the fire water world Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; San Francisco; U.s. - Race Relations SOMETIMES SHE DREAMS, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: This woman %I call my mother Last Line: Wide and open, %so much space to be filled Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Native Americans - Reservations; Women SOMETIMES THOSE PUEBLO MEN CAN SURE BE COYOTES, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source Last Line: That was the time a pueblo coyote %chauffeured us in the 'g-car' Subject(s): Adolescence; Native Americans; Native Americans - Children; Navajo Indians SOMETIMES...INJUSTICE, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: The day I was born my father bought me a .22 Last Line: Or became a wall st. Broker Subject(s): Native Americans SONG (WINTU), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The sleeping %place Last Line: Will remain %always Subject(s): Native Americans SONG (PAPAGO), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Blue evening falls Last Line: It sets the corn Subject(s): Native Americans SONG CONCERNING A MESSAGE FROM WASHINGTON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The great grandfather (the president) %has said Last Line: I have helped (to keep the old ways) Subject(s): Native Americans SONG FOR A FALLEN WARRIOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o my son, farewell!" Last Line: "beyond the broad river. / mai-ram-bo, mai-ram-bo" Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars;war 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 FROM THE TOTEM MAKER, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why not view your family's past Last Line: The dwindling stream inching toward the breakers Subject(s): Native Americans SONG OF AN INDIAN WARRIOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A lone wolf I am Subject(s): Native Americans SONG OF BEKOTSIDI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now bekotsidi, that am I. For them I make Last Line: To form them fair, for them I labor. For them I make Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion SONG OF HIAWATHA, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should you ask me, whence these stories? Last Line: To the land of the hereafter Subject(s): Animals; Canoes And Canoeing; Native Americans; Religion SONG OF INDECISION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They are talking about me Last Line: My wife %would weep for me Subject(s): 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 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 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 SONG OF THE STARS (PASSAMAQUODDY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We who sing are the stars Last Line: We sing on the road of spirits Subject(s): Native Americans SONG OF THE STRONG HEART SOCIETY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Friends, %whoever Last Line: Shall not be admitted Subject(s): Native Americans 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 THAT WE STILL SING, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the way from oklahoma up to the sun dance Last Line: We recognized that song. It's one %that we still sing Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians SONG TO STRAIGHTEN A BAD DREAM (NAVAJO), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All is beautiful where I dream Last Line: I dream that all is beautiful Subject(s): Native Americans 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, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Xochitl Last Line: Flower %flor Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 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 SONGS OF THE WINE-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the sapphire ocean Last Line: The hummingbird's, the humpback whales, %a neutron star, a human soul? Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Hummingbirds; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians SONNENKINDER, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Having been sober for two years, I feel it Last Line: I can never drink whiskey again Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SONNY'S PURPLE HEART, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Man, if you're dead, why are you leading Last Line: We filed you under dry desert dirt Subject(s): Native Americans; Popular Culture - United States; San Francisco SORROW SINCE SITTING BULL, by CHRISTOPHER GILBERT Poem Source First Line: You sit in the back Last Line: Facing back, facing back Subject(s): Native Americans SOUTH DAKOTA WOMAN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SPIDER AS SHE USED TO BE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Swiftly, innocently, %the primordial Last Line: That the risk is %glittering and golden Subject(s): Native Americans SPIRIT IN ME, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: I go back to the day I was driving Last Line: Nestling spirits greater than alcohol Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians 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 SPIRIT-DEER DEEP IN PINE FORESTS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The bad parts of the city are self-infected Last Line: A spirit-deer %fucking deep %in pine forests Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco SPIRITS OF THE FOREST, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: When the last %rain forests Last Line: What will take %the place of %our spirits Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans SPIRITUALITY 101: SNAKEROOT, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Used to pick the dead coneflowers Last Line: In our suburbs is ever used for medicine Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians SPIRITUALITY 102: CAKES AND ALE, BREAD AND WINE, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cakes and ale, bread and wine Last Line: Many thanks, and the bookstore's thataway.' Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians 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 SPONTANEOUS REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN INDIAN, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wakonda! Talako! Deathonic turkey gobbling in the soft Last Line: Down the wide amber speedway of death, little richard, %tubamirum, the vast black jacket brays in th Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Native Americans SPRING FJORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I was out in my kayak Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans SQUAW, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who am I? A hated thing, a squaw Last Line: For who am I? A hated thing, a squaw. Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Squaws STAR QUILT, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Yes, that is the same star quilt Last Line: Damn, I'm sure that is the same star quilt Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco STAR QUILT IN A PAWNSHOP, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: That sure looks like the same star quilt Last Line: Never mind. Forget it Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 STATE FOR STATE, WITH ALL ATTENDANTS, WHO WOULD CHANGE? NOT, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some in the godspeed, the susan c. Last Line: It was enough; it is enough %if present faith mend partial proof Variant Title(s): Enoug Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617) STATUETTE: LATE MINOAN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Girl of the musing mouth Last Line: They were dreams of one %thirsting as for rest, %as I, unblest Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian STEPPING SOFTLY AMONG MEMORIES, by CAROLE LAFAVOR Poem Source Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans STONE CARVERS, by JR. AUGUSTINE PALMER Poem Source First Line: The dense popularity of stone Last Line: And we compliment one another, %all the way home Subject(s): Native Americans STORY OF YAPPAN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Xochiquetzal: %dear brother %yappan Last Line: Because of this he is called %'head-carrier'' Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans STRANGE PEOPLE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All night I am the doe, breathing Last Line: All day, asleep in clean grasses, %I dream of the one who could really wound me Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Native Americans; Sports STRANGERS IN YOUR TOWN, by PETER LA FARGE Poem Source First Line: I'm an indian, I'm an alien Last Line: On the road that's freedom bound Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest SUICIDING(ED) INDIAN WOMEN: 1: MARY, KYUKUH, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Broken, a %tremble like Last Line: Mother, so maybe they sent her away and made up the rest Subject(s): Native Americans - Women SUICIDING(ED) INDIAN WOMEN: 2: FERN, LAGUNA, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small woman huddled on the couch Last Line: Can't see another world around you like the lamps %soft and comforting around this room? Subject(s): Native Americans - Women SUICIDING(ED) INDIAN WOMEN: 3: DELILAH, NAVAJO, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earthwoman %authentic as any white man Last Line: On the edge of the reservation %and make joking fantasies %do for real Subject(s): Native Americans - Women SUICIDING(ED) INDIAN WOMEN: 4: SHIPAP, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful corn woman Last Line: The people lost %the beautiful first home %to the raging war gods %and wander homeless now. %they ha Subject(s): Native Americans - Women SUMEEKULI, by ANDREW PEYNETSA Poem Source First Line: Well then Last Line: The white sumeekuli came to be feared. %that's all Subject(s): 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 SUMMER VISIT, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Her wide window overlooks %green gardens, an empty tennis court Last Line: Lord hear my prayer. Lord hear my prayer Subject(s): Native Americans 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 IS BLUE, by RICHARD AITSON Poem Source First Line: The sun is blue and I have forgotten all the Last Line: Sticks to me, I am brown. The sun is blue Subject(s): Native Americans SUN UP THERE, UP THERE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans SUN'S CHILDREN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Although %we may lose Last Line: We will win %this war %in peace Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; 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 SUNDOWN AT DARLINGTON 1878, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: The children enter Last Line: Into the damp %fall wind Subject(s): Native Americans SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE DOG, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night before my uncle carter got shot Last Line: He would have made a perfect suburban mayor - %or maybe, manager for some liquor chain Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Uncles SURRENDER SPEECH OF CHIEF JOSEPH, by JOSEPH Poem Source First Line: I am tired of fighting Last Line: I will fight no more forever Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest SURVIVAL, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: At night, startled by the %snowy owl who flees her Last Line: Restored in my night dreams Subject(s): Native Americans SURVIVAL, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Survival, I know how this way Last Line: We shall survive this way Subject(s): Native Americans; Migration; Survival SURVIVAL, by CHERYL SAVAGEAU Poem Source First Line: On cape cod Last Line: Holding the earth safe %through furious winds Subject(s): Native Americans - History SWAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I study out a dark similitude Last Line: Sing of that nothing of which all is made, %or listen into silence, like a god Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian SWAN'S SONG, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Garbed in silence I go on earth Last Line: The world's wide waters, as a wayfaring soul Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians SWEAT, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: Bathtub %might well Last Line: The knife clatters to the floor Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Oklahoma; Revolutions SWEETS FOR THE DANCING BEARS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: My night's wind scheme of public words Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco TAKE ME TO THE SIOUX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The hunkpapa sioux %are to be feared Last Line: Take me to them Subject(s): Native Americans TAMING THE STORM: A TWO-SHAMAN VISION AND EVENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans TANNERY, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO Poem Source First Line: A swarm of flies is drumming on Last Line: With the sluggish chicha of the church Subject(s): Native Americans - Reservations; Peru TARAHUMARA HERBS, by ALFONSO REYES Poem Source First Line: The tarahumara indians have come down, %sign of a bad year Last Line: In heaps upon the ground-- %perfect in their natural natural science Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Herbs; Medicine; Native Americans; Plants TATEKEYA'S EARTH, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Looking for the place to cross the creek Last Line: I weep for tatekeya's earth Subject(s): Native Americans TEMICXOCH, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: In my sleep Last Line: I smell the roots %of this flower Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TEPEYOLLOTLI, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Water's %the heart of Last Line: Its voice: %a jaguar %of echoes Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 THANKSGIVING AT PINE RIDGE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Weened from laden brown dugs Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco THANKSGIVING FEAST, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: On turkey day you flew Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco THAT CHILD, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That child was dangerous. That just-born Subject(s): Babies; Native Americans - Children; Infants THAT GREAT WINGLESS BIRD, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I was thrashing on the couch Last Line: Yes, hoping for beauty, %that great wingless bird Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; San Francisco; U.s. - Race Relations THAT LIGHTNING'S HARD TO CLIMB, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: - struck down? %good lord, we'd always be Last Line: Now mantle where the %living tree once stood Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians 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 ARCTIC INDIAN'S FAITH, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We worship the spirit that walks unseen Last Line: But his presence and power we know. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion 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 BONE-PICKER, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old days, when a choctaw died Subject(s): Native Americans 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 BURNING OF MALMAISON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a brisk cool evening when the wind Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Politics & Government; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal 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 CARRYING OF A GHOST, by NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Let the ghost of the brave be carried away Last Line: The ghost goes on the long ghost-road. Subject(s): Ghosts; Mourning; Native Americans - Religion; Rites & Ceremonies; Supernatural; Bereavement THE CATTLE THIEF, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They were coming across the prairie Last Line: And blame, if you dare, the hunger that drove him to be a thief. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Grief; Murder; Native Americans - Wars; Sorrow; Sadness THE CHEROKEE LOTTERY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cherokees refused to leave Subject(s): Native Americans 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 COSMIC TRAIL, by EDWIN M. ABBOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I have thought so long on greater Last Line: The landscape widens as I onward go. Subject(s): Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal THE COYOTE AND THE LOCUST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "locust, locust, playing a flute" Last Line: Playing a flute! Subject(s): Coyotes;flutes;locusts;musical Instruments;native Americans - Reservations 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 CROSSING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That winter the southern land had all the contours Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal 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 EAGLE RIDE; OR, SEE FIRST THY NATIVE LAND, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: The bell tolled 'ten'; then sang 'eleven' in glee Last Line: "see first of all thy native land." Subject(s): Mount Hood, Oregon; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel; West (u.s.); Yellowstone National Park; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States THE EAGLE WARRIOR: AN INVOCATION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This life-size ceramic man costumed as an eagle Subject(s): Native Americans 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 FATED RACE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: I stood on the banks of the klickitat Last Line: Must sink beneath the flood. Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Oregon; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal 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 GREY HORSE TROOP, by ROBERT WILLIAM CHAMBERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All alone on the hillside Last Line: Drink to the troop that never shall die! Subject(s): Cavalry; Geronimo (1829-1909); Native Americans - Wars 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 DEATH WAIL, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: All the village of rikawrus Last Line: Beats the aching heart of man. Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Native Americans - History; West (u.s.) - Exploration THE INDIAN GIRL'S LAMENT, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An indian girl was sitting where Last Line: The rustling of my footsteps near. Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Grief; Squaws; Sorrow; Sadness 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 LADY IN KICKING HORSE RESERVOIR, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not my hands but green across you now Subject(s): Drowning; Montana; Native Americans - Reservations 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 LAST RESERVATION, by WALTER LEARNED Poem Text First Line: Sullen and dull, in the september day Last Line: In the last reservation. Subject(s): Native Americans - Reservations; Patriotism; Social Protest 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 MARGINS WHERE WE LIVE BY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overnight, the air froze Last Line: "the margins will always be the space Subject(s): Native Americans; Conduct Of Life 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 MIND IS STUNNED STARK, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stunned night in the vah Subject(s): Native Americans – Wars THE MINISTRY OF NATURE; OR, THE TEMPLE SERVICE OF THE SEASONS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Ordained of god to preach the truth to men Last Line: Thus nature worships god the whole year through. Subject(s): Indian Summer; Native Americans - History; Nature; Preaching & Preachers; Seasons 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 MOHEGAN CHURCH, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid those hills, with verdure spread Last Line: Your god -- your hope -- your heaven the same Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion 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 BARLOW ROAD, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Tread softly, boys, 'tis sacred dust Last Line: And each clod a coffin nail. Subject(s): Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips 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 PEACE STATUE SPEAKS, by J. R. DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Come, brave warriors, men of valor Last Line: Comes from worship of the sun god. Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars 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 PRAIRIE SPEAKS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: I am the prairie singer Last Line: I am the prairie singer. Subject(s): Memory; Native Americans - Wars; Pioneers; Prairies; Spring; Plains 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 HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA AND MUDJEKEEWIS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of childhood into manhood Last Line: Not a word of laughing water. Subject(s): Native Americans - Children THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: PICTURE-WRITING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those days said hiawatha Last Line: On the grave-posts of the village. Subject(s): Native Americans - Languages; Writing & Writers 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 SQUAW'S LAMENT, by JOHN EDWARD LOGAN Poem Text First Line: A blood-red ring hung round the moon Last Line: I hear the loon cry every night. Alternate Author Name(s): Dane, Barry Variant Title(s): The Indian Maid's Lament Subject(s): Absence; Lament; Native Americans - Women; Separation; Isolation; Squaws 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 SWAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I study out a dark similitude Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian 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 TRUCE OF PISCATAQUA; 1675, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raze these long blocks of brick and stone Last Line: Lo! The indian's name was given. Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars 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 VICTORY OF FAITH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: What did the sobbing night wind say Last Line: "heaven is true, be brave, be brave." Subject(s): Faith; God; Native Americans - Religion; Belief; Creed THE VISION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood above you, and the mountain flamed Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian 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 WESTWARD MARCH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Beside some lost alaskan lake Last Line: As the waters fill the sea! Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Seamen; Sails; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips 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 THERE CAME AN ANCIENT HURON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Native Americans THERE IS A PLACE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: Where much water fell Subject(s): Faces; Grandparents; Native Americans; Riddles THERE IS A PLACE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: In the middle of the water Subject(s): Native Americans; Riddles; Turtles THERE IS JOY IN / FEELING THE WARMTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: In the winter night Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans THERE IS THAT PERSON, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: Come out of %her head Subject(s): Bananas; Native Americans; Riddles THERE IS THAT PERSON, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: Out of her middle Subject(s): Corn; Native Americans; Riddles THERE IS THAT PERSON, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: He'll eat yours Subject(s): Chili; Native Americans; Riddles THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF NARKUNDER, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In a temple eight miles from narkunda Subject(s): Native Americans THERE WAS ONCE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source Last Line: Able to perform this incredible act she would only say that the %rocks had helped her Subject(s): 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 THEY SEEMED, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: To come from the depths and Last Line: She is listening %to hear %the drums %of indians.' Subject(s): Native Americans THINGS (FOR AN INDIAN) TO DO IN NEW YORK (CITY), by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walk down the avenue of the americas Last Line: She loves me, she loves me Subject(s): New York City; Native Americans; Identity; Urban Life 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 THIRSTY ISLAND, by JIM TOLLERUD Poem Source First Line: War canoes were ready Last Line: And depart their chilled island Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars THIS ENDS WITH A FROZEN PENIS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Once we could talk like long-lost friends Last Line: And I take your hand and do as you ask Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco THIS IS NO MOVIE OF NOBLE SAVAGES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Born of trees %whose timeless atoms Last Line: Unless of course %they're my in-laws Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco THIS IS THE REZ, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source Last Line: Love impossible. Love still possible Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco THIS IS THE ROAD, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: I first left on %scenic and coruscating Last Line: Mallards nesting beside it Subject(s): Native Americans THIS IS THE TIME OF GRASSHOPPERS AND ALL THAT I SEE IS DYING, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Colleen, %this is the time of grasshoppers Last Line: And all that I see is dying except for my sparkling love for you Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco THIS SOIL SHALL BE OURS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We own not your laws nor your treaties: this soil Last Line: Has coiled round our vitals: let time tell the rest Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest 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 THRESHING WIND, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold and clear weather, %and the wind harries us Last Line: Drawing the sharp green leaves %against his shoulder Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Native Americans THUNDER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Tlaloc's %laughter Last Line: From %afar Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 TIGUA ELDER, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do I tell my children Last Line: There is forgetting in my own true name Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage 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 TIME IS THE FIRE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Dead leaves on the trees in spring Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 & FRO, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the train to california Last Line: In summer morning fields Subject(s): Native Americans 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 A PAPOOSE, by RUDOLPH N. HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the sky's light Last Line: With the ghosts of your fathers, all through the dark? Subject(s): Native Americans - Children TO BILL IN MINNESOTA, MINNESOTA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Don't say I don't know, I said to her Last Line: The s.O.B. Squeezed all love out of my heart Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco TO CAST SLEEP, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, the one-called-night Last Line: Soon I shall do this to them %and all shall be drunk with night Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 EARTHWORMS BEFORE FISHING WITH A HOOK, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Help me %white spirit Last Line: The man fish %the woman fish %dwellers of meanders Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TO IMAGINE HER WHOLE, ONCE MORE, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: And she hides behind her dark wavy hair Last Line: And I smiling too %admiring her shawl of protection Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians TO JIM IN SAWYER, MINNESOTA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Check out the dead cedars in the enclosed photo Last Line: And looking like hell to break out Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco TO MY COAST SALISH ANCESTORS, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the late evening, rain and fog Last Line: I am of this coast and its keeper Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage 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 ST. CLAIR COUNTY, by FRANCIS CLEARY WITTMEIER Poem Source First Line: You man of white, %have stolen from me Last Line: The great spirit weeps for you %and you celebrate thanksgiving Subject(s): Native Americans TO SUSAN WISHCOP, AN OJIBWA BURIED IN THE INDIAN CEMETERY, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Your mouth stings, full of pointy weeds Last Line: You have the dust of the world %under your nails Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graves; Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians 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 TO THE MUSE, IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That aganippe well was nice, it hit the spot Last Line: Drink from our bare skin: %good water %fits every mouth Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians TO THE WORD INDIAN, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: Native struggle is worried and its back broke Last Line: Slow assassination Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians TO THOSE UNITED BY CANKPE OPI, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grass hides its children iin the beetle's Last Line: From the graves of the warrior dreamers Subject(s): Native Americans TO THOSE WHO HAVE LOST EVERYTHING, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Crossed %in despair Last Line: A fantasy island %some time ago %turning %natives %into aliens Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TO UNDO THE SLEEP SPELL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I'm going to take them back Last Line: From their dream-flower %I am %the night-drinker Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TO WHOMEVER ONE CALLS WHENEVER ONE HAS A QUARTER, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: I drive many miles through towns where the only Last Line: The wind dancing on telephone lines %hooked up to oblivion Subject(s): Native Americans TOBACCO, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Piciete: %sacred dust Last Line: The lips %the hands %the living %quarters Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TODAY WAS A BAD DAY LIKE TB, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: Saw white people clap during a sacred dance Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans TOKINISH, by JAMES THOMAS STEVENS Poem Source First Line: Truth is a native Last Line: Drunke, and they shall sleep a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake Subject(s): America - Exploration; History; Islands; Native Americans; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) TOMATOS, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: A string of tamoots Last Line: Red skinned \ ottomas Subject(s): History; Native Americans - Wars TONAL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: If you lose %your tonal Last Line: Might as well %be dead Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TONALAMATL/SPIRIT BOOK, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Pages %whisper %sigh %sing Last Line: I start %singing %all kinds %of flowers Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TONANTZIN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Mother %are you here %with us? Last Line: And fire of %our rebellion! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans; Women - Bible TOTEM POLE, by KEN JONES Poem Source First Line: Squat on that! He spat Last Line: The t.V. Antennae %I refuse to sit on Subject(s): Native Americans 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 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 TRAVELER'S PRAYER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, quetzalcoatl Last Line: To be stained %with blood %come forth %cross my path Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TREES, RUSH LIMBAUGH, & THE FAILED EXORCISM OF MAYA WU'S GHOST, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Apr-99 Last Line: Joyride of life & on mad, mad %love and destruction Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco TRESPASS, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Wind moans off prairie hills. Hang on Last Line: Wind moans off prairie hills. Hang on Subject(s): Native Americans TRIBAL CHANT, by CAROL LEE SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: Yo soy india Last Line: Pero no soy Subject(s): Native Americans - Languages 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 TRINITY-RIDDLE, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I spread, descending a samite of stars Last Line: To wear till dawn night-diamonds, till dusk the jewel of time Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians 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 TRUE TRIBE, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Don't give me that blood follows blood Last Line: That mess %from your hands Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Native Americans TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand Last Line: The left shoe %and the right one with its white foot Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations; Women TRUTHFUL JAMES TO THE EDITIOR IN THE MODOC WAR, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which it is not my style Last Line: If here's captain jack still a-livin', and nye with no skelp on his brain? Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars 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 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 TUN WHEEL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The wheel of time turns Subject(s): Mayas; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TURTLE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm dreaming the old turtle back Last Line: We are amber, %the small animals %are gold inside us Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans TWASINTA'S SEMINOLES, OR RAPE OF FLORIDA, SELS., by ALBERY ALLSON WHITMAN Poet's Biography Subject(s): Florida; Freedom; Native Americans; Racism; Slavery; Social Classes 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 TWO PRAYERS FOR THE SIOUX: 1., by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: On a bitter december night the granite shadows Last Line: I pray for those brains. %grandfather, I pray for those brains Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco TWO PRAYERS FOR THE SIOUX: 2., by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Beneath mt. Rushmore's heightened air Last Line: I will pray that the sioux become sober %and quit murdering themselves, their great nation Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Full Text First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts; Writer's Conferences And Workshops TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter Last Line: I will take that ancestral one Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women 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 UNCERTAIN ADMISSION, by FRANCES BAZIL Poem Source First Line: The sky looks down on me in aimless blues Last Line: I have to admit to them, to myself, %I am an indian Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Native Americans 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 UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER, by LINDA NOEL Poem Source First Line: You are too wild Last Line: Are laced in perfume %and dishwater suds Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Unfaithfulness UNITED, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: Moon music moved them together Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans URBAN INDIAN SUITE: 1, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: In the empty and angular desert air Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco URBAN INDIAN SUITE: 2, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The heat rash, the hazy lines Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco URBAN INDIAN SUITE: 3, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Mounting years and endless beers Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco URBAN INDIAN SUITE: 4, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: The reservation of my mind Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco URBAN VILLAGERS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Hummingbirds %consoling Last Line: The flowers %of the avenues Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; 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 VICTORIA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: O rock-ribbed city of the western sea Last Line: "guard well ""britannia's far-flung battle line!" Subject(s): Trail Of Tears (1838-39); West (u.s.); Native Americans - Removal; Southwest; Pacific States 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 VISION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood above you, and the mountain flamed Last Line: O mourn for the world as I must this morning %in a cloak which is made of job's-tears Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian VISION (2), by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No money for lunch so I rode an elevator to the top of the onb Last Line: Extras, we're a; extras Subject(s): Native Americans; Racism; Motion Pictures VISIONS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: At night %I see Last Line: By ear %by hand %by heart Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 VISITING CABBAGE EARS, A LETTER FROM THE INDIAN SCHOOL 3, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Mae jean showed me how to fake being sick. After the buses leave, you tell Last Line: Rest and an envelope full of little white pills which we threw away as soon as %we got back Subject(s): Adolescence; Native Americans - Women; Schools; Sickness VISITING PROFESSOR AND THE YELLOW SKY, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Yesterday afternoon %I woke and heard them again Last Line: Blue-black is the carnivore %yellow the sky Subject(s): Native Americans WAHPETON SIOUX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hau! My brave companions Subject(s): Native Americans WAITING, by JR. AUGUSTINE PALMER Poem Source First Line: Having taken %off its around head Last Line: As crude oil filled the room, %live and deadly Subject(s): Native Americans WAKAN'TANKA HEARS ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wakan'tanka, %when I pray to him Last Line: Whatever is good %he grants me Subject(s): Native Americans WAKINYAN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Puppy luppy, our super sleek black lab Last Line: Pain is easier to deal with than spirits Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WALAM OLUM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: 1. At first, in that place, at all times, above the earth Last Line: 60. They are peaceful; they have great things; who are they? Subject(s): Native Americans WALK, by RICHARD AITSON Poem Source First Line: What love will occur Last Line: Swallows sing promises, %I will be with you Subject(s): Native Americans WALKER RIVER NIGHT IS A MOIST DREAM, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WALKING WITH FRIENDS DOWN LARIGILL AND DIBADAL, ON THE ISLE OF SKYE, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Coming down from the watershed's pools %we drank first at the source Last Line: Back into the heart %of sunlight and falling rain Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians WALL SONGS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The southern jungle is a green wall Last Line: Showing again, again %that boundaries are all lies Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans WANBLI GLESKA WIN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Eagle woman: %wanbli gleska win Last Line: Between your sioux thighs Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WAR, by C HIEF JOSEPH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me, my warriors; my heart is sick and sad Last Line: From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever! Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; War WAR SCOUT DREAMS OF HOME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A certain maiden Subject(s): Native Americans 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 WAREHOUSE CHRONICLE, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: All morning I've stacked cartons of lipstick Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WARRIOR SONG, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Inside the awakening dynamo Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco 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 WASHYUMA MOTOR HOTEL, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the cement foundations Last Line: And jokes and laugh and laugh Subject(s): Native Americans WATCH YOUR HORSES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Crow indian Last Line: Often %am I Subject(s): Native Americans WATER SPIRITS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: These rivers %flow deep %inside Last Line: Well uphill %stream off %volcanoes Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans WAY DOWN, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time swings her burning hands Last Line: Our best hopes share, as bright, %as peerless as a cock's eye Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian WAY IT IS, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Living here %in the hills, walking Last Line: Things pass and times are gone forever Subject(s): Native Americans WAZHAZHE GRANDMOTHER, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They chose their allotted land Last Line: To live in their first home Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Variant Title(s): They Chose Their Allotted Lan Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians WE CALL THEM SAVAGE, by MARGARET JEWETT BAILEY Poem Source First Line: We call them savage - o be just Last Line: His history but a tale of misery and woe, %his very name must be blank Subject(s): Native Americans WE ENTER THE WATER, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: And we leave the water %singing Subject(s): Native Americans; Paddles And Oars; Riddles WE MADE FIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Comrade, %in the daytime when we made fire Last Line: I understand women Subject(s): Native Americans WE STOOD, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: In the freezing spearfish %creek to our ankles; me Last Line: Eloquence of that place %in my memory Subject(s): Native Americans WE WERE SEVEN, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: #name? Last Line: I keep close watch on all the trees we have Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians WE'RE ONE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Sea %dust Last Line: Tear %pollen Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans WEARING INDIAN JEWELRY, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: I was wondering why that guy Last Line: Every day every day every day Subject(s): Jewelry And Jewelers; Native Americans 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 WESLEY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Still in third grade Last Line: Higher, soaring %rusty chains creaking Subject(s): Children; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska WEWOKA OKLAHOMA-SUMMER '85, by ANNE WATERS Poem Source First Line: Traveling alone %down narrow back roads Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans 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 WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing that says you can't Last Line: Clouds and wet earth %and there is no motion %either way %nolife %to speak of Subject(s): Native Americans WHAT INDIANS?, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: "the truth is: ""no kidding?"" ""no."" ""come on! That can't be true!"" ""no kidding." Last Line: Number or need for number we/they are people like you and just like me Subject(s): Native Americans WHAT MONTEZUMA FED CORTES AND HIS MEN, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tamales, they like tamales Last Line: In the spring of 1519 Subject(s): Food And Eating; Mexico, Indians Of; Montezuma Ii (1466-1520); Native Americans WHAT THE THUNDER SAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If it thunders on sunday Subject(s): Mayas; Mexico, Indians Of; 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 A CHILD, by MARY MACKEY Poem Source First Line: When I was a child %I played with the boys Last Line: Spills blood %and kills-without-mercy Subject(s): Children; Games; 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 WHEN ROOTS ARE EXPOSED, by ESTHER G. BELIN Poem Source First Line: The empty of stomach Last Line: An ideogram of essence %cultivates my stillness to action Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians WHEN THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: To correct an error Subject(s): Native Americans WHEN THE DAKOTAPI REALLY LIVED AS THEY WISHED, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: One down an abyss and he never reached the spirit land Last Line: One down an abyss and he never reached the spirit land Subject(s): Native Americans WHEN THE MOON DIED, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source Last Line: The earth is angry at the people. %we're not living right Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Death; Leadership; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Navajo Indians; Prisons And Prisoners WHEN YOU TALK OF THIS, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Wine-puffed %lesions Last Line: Was a good and faithful woman Subject(s): Native Americans 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 WHERE THE MUSES HAUNT, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Atop the opera garnier in paris there's Last Line: Went on with their gathering from the pale blue %rosemary and from thyme Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians WHITE BREAD BLUES, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I guess only an indian woman could Last Line: But my prayer was never %answered thank god Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WHITE CLAY, NEBRASKA, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: These gray words slog in spring snow Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WHITE MAN'S ROAD IS HARD FOR US TO FOLLOW, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Native Americans WHY SHOULD I BE JEALOUS?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why should %I, even I Last Line: Be jealous %because of that bad boy? Subject(s): Native Americans WHY WE PLAY BASKETBALL, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In december, snow / covered the court Last Line: We build small fires Subject(s): Basketball; Native Americans WIDOWHOOD, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: At death's best hour %she waved away Last Line: What had changed the world? Subject(s): Native Americans; Widows And Widowers WIFE OF MANIBOZHO SINGS, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He comes and goes; %there is no rest Last Line: Lie still %under the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion WILDWEST, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were none of my blood in this battle Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief) 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 WINKTE, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: We are special to the sioux! Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans WINNING THE DUST BOWL, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a reaching up %into the dusty leaves after Last Line: And there are many friends of the huntington who surely do Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Food And Eating; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Survival WINTER, by RICHARD AITSON Poem Source First Line: Hiding myself %from the grandmother Last Line: We look to the east %and forget to suffer Subject(s): 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 WISER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Now I know %why my father Last Line: Would go out %and cry %in the rain Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans WISH-XAM, by ELIZABETH A. WOODY Poem Source First Line: Rattle seedpods, shed skins, to translucent hulls Last Line: Rich with oils and segments of heartbeat in sturgeon, %the river like the snake rests its spine by d Subject(s): Native Americans; Rivers; Sports WITH DAUNTLESS COURAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On the warpath Last Line: With dauntless courage I live Subject(s): Native Americans WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: You acquiesced when they made you Last Line: On the ground %without much hope Subject(s): Native Americans WITHOUT KNOWING WHY, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY Poem Source First Line: One morning of ancestral ash Last Line: Why did they discover this last savage land? Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Country Life; Native Americans WITHOUT WORDS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Farewell from this well is impossible Last Line: And with no words of pride for our past Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco WO'IM BWIKAM, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: With an easter moon on the rise, the coyotes came back to Last Line: That singers take advantage of or not depending on the occasion Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Leadership; Native Americans - Wars; Palm Sunday; Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers 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 face—my 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 WOMAN MOURNS FOR HER HUSBAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They came. They brought the ones Last Line: But when one's husband dies there is no happiness Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest WOMAN WHO MARRIED THE BEAR, by NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER Poem Source First Line: There were two women, sisters Last Line: Now that is the end Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Hunting; Murder; Native Americans 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 OLD AGE, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: She had come to the time of her life Last Line: That you can walk away Subject(s): Native Americans WOMAN'S SONG, ABOUT MEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: First I lowered my head Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans WOMANSPLACE, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed Last Line: I laugh %and know how much I %won't be seen. %that's %what I dreamed Subject(s): Native Americans - Women WOMANWORK, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some make potteries %some weave and spin Last Line: For bowls %for food growing %for bodies %eating %at drink %thank her Subject(s): Native Americans - Women WOOLWORTHS, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Went to woolworths Last Line: We ducked out of there %and fled on the first bus back to the indian school Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Native Americans - Children; Racism WORDS FOR HEALING (MAZATEC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am the moon woman Last Line: Of the divine sea Subject(s): 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 WORDS OF CREATION (MAZATEC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As he came forth important Last Line: Then the plains and the hollows hardened Subject(s): Native Americans WORKING HANDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: We clean %your room Last Line: One day %will write %the main text %of this land Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans WORLD HE LIVED IN, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: Was like some vast museum with rock walls Last Line: Supine and covered with dust Subject(s): Native Americans WORSHIPPING THE SUN (TAOS, NEW MEXICO), by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The crowded houses sat on top of one another Last Line: Cease for an instant, then begin once again Subject(s): Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961); Native Americans; New Mexico; Travel WOUNDED KNEE: 1890-1973, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I fear to see Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Wounded Knee, Battle Of (1890) WRITER'S CHOICES, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: I went to my library %this morning. Slattern Last Line: Originates in dreams %and poetry Subject(s): Native Americans WYOMING, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou com'st, in beauty, on my gaze at last Last Line: Has death no triumph-hours, save on the battle-day? Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844); Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania WYOMING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A demon yell, a flesh of steel, and massacre complete Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania YEAR OF THE RAT, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: For days sirens hurl winding shrieks Last Line: They dance the dance they dance Subject(s): Disease; Fever; Hospitals; Native Americans - Reservations; Plague; Public Health; Rats 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 YOLILIZTLI/LIFE IN MOTION, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Something %more than nothing Last Line: Capable of turning %caterpillers into %butterflies Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans YOLLOXOCHITL/HEART-FLOWER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: It was you %sister Last Line: It was you %sister %your blood %your wounds Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans 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 ARE BARBARIANS, by ROGER WILLIAMS (1603-1683) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When indians hear the horrid filths Last Line: In the end they will bereave us Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest 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 YOU DESIRE VAINLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I come %to see your younger sister Subject(s): Native Americans YOU HAVE NO HORSES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Well, %when I was courting Last Line: Over all the land %I roam Subject(s): Native Americans YOUNG WIFE, by CHARLOTTE DECLUE Poem Source First Line: It's friday night, the panhandle Last Line: It's all a part of me now Subject(s): Native Americans YOUR BODY, by NOLA M. HADLEY Poem Source Subject(s): Homosexuality; Native Americans |
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