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Subject: NATIVE AMERICANS - LANGUAGES
Matches Found: 6

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


CREEK THOUGHT NO. 9, by LOUIS OLIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I speak a language older than english
Subject(s): Native Americans - Languages


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


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


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


TRIBAL CHANT, by CAROL LEE SANCHEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yo soy india
Last Line: Pero no soy
Subject(s): Native Americans - Languages