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Subject: NATIVE AMERICANS - RESERVATIONS
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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


HORSES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem 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


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


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


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


LOOKING BACK ON THE MUCKLESHOOT RESERVATION FROM GALISTEO STREET, SANTA FE, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bow of a muckleshoot canoe, blessed
Subject(s): Native Americans - Reservations


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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 LADY IN KICKING HORSE RESERVOIR, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not my hands but green across you now
Subject(s): Drowning; Montana; Native Americans - Reservations


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


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