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Subject: NATIVE AMERICANS - EDUCATION
Matches Found: 9

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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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