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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NATIVE AMERICANS - WOMEN Matches Found: 21 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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