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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NATIVE AMERICANS - RESERVATIONS Matches Found: 20 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 |
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