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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BARROOM FRAGMENT, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was talking, / 'I invited her to las vegas
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A BUFFALO DANCE AT SANTO DOMINGO, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn came
Last Line: Our breast and forehead with the turquoise sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Native Americans; New Mexico; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A CHIPPEWA LEGEND, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old chief, feeling now well-nigh his end
Last Line: Ugly and fierce, to hide among the woods.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A CRY FROM AN INDIAN WIFE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My forest brave, my red-skin love, farewell
Last Line: Perhaps the white man's god has willed it so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Marriage; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; War; Worry; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A DANCE FOR RAIN (AT COCHITI, NEW MEXICO), by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You may never see rain, unless you see
Last Line: Rain, rain in cochiti!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Cochiti, New Mexico; Dancing & Dancers; Hopi Indians; Native Americans; Rain; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


A DEAL IN REAL ESTATE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Barendt cuyler, indian trader
Last Line: "brother -- let us dream no more!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Native Americans; New York City - Dutch Period; Smoking; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


A LEGEND OF THE DELAWARES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The air is dark with cloud on cloud
Last Line: "should wield the weapons of the sky."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A POEM FROM BOULDER RIDGE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The skeleton of a teepee stood on boulder ridge
Subject(s): Houses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A PROPHECY (1764), by ARTHUR LEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ere five score years have run their tedious rounds
Last Line: T is all they ask -- or all a crown can give.
Subject(s): Carlisle, Pennsylvania; French & Indian Wars; Native Americans; Prophecy & Prophets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A SAVAGE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dixon, a choctaw, twenty years of age
Last Line: And drops without a moan: dixon is dead.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A SEA-BIRD; OFF PERU, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O to be a sea-bird one celestial day
Last Line: In god's azure only sun and sea and I!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; South America; Seagulls


A SEMINOLE, by FRANCES BALLMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A seminole died with the sun in the west
Last Line: A seminole died.
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A VERY EXCEPTIONAL ESKIMO, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I tell you a few of the things I know
Last Line: If he didn't, the cold might freeze his dreams!
Subject(s): Arctic; Eskimos; Native Americans; Snow; Winter; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A WARRANT FOR PABLO NERUDA, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: With the fury of cinders, with the despair of dusty
Last Line: An alchemy of resistance transmutes your flowering name
Subject(s): Chile; Government; Nobel Prizes; Poetry & Poets; Socialism; South America


A WHIMSY, by EDNA W. PIKERINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the fall when woods resound
Last Line: And hear its new-born cry.
Subject(s): Autumn; Native Americans; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A YOUNG CHIEF RETURNS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have returned unto my ancient mesa
Last Line: "I am home!"
Subject(s): Homecoming; Native Americans; Travel; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


AFTER IKKYU: 25, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Talked to the god of hosts about the native american
Last Line: Half-human bears still dance in imperfect circles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Environment; Native Americans; Prayer; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AFTER THE CAMANCHES, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saddle, saddle, saddle! / mount and gallop away!
Last Line: A scalp on either side!
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AFTER THE COMANCHES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Saddle! Saddle! Saddle!
Last Line: "bring her home on the crupper, / a scalp on either side"
Subject(s): Gold;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


ALICE CORBIN IS GONE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Henderson, Alice Corbin (1881-1949); Native Americans; Translating & Interpreting; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ALIVE, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hum of the car
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ALL WINTER, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In winter I remember
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AMBITION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They brought the mighty chief to town
Last Line: "me heap big chief, me look like hell."
Subject(s): Comedy; Native Americans; Racism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


AMERICAN INDIAN ART: FORM AND TRADITION, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were we not fine
Last Line: Bright glance, where is our song now / our sorrow
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AN ESKIMELODRAMA; [OR THE ESKAPADE OF AN ESKAMAID], by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid greenland's polar ice and snow
Last Line: Is thus kept green in verse by me
Subject(s): Eskimos;greenland;ice;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


AN INDIAN AT THE BURIAL PLACE OF HIS FATHERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the spot I came to seek
Last Line: May be a barren desert yet.
Variant Title(s): An Indian At The Burying-place Of His Fathers
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AN INDIAN LULLABY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "rock-a-by, rock-a-by, little brown baby"
Last Line: "hush-a-by, rock-a-by, hush-a-by-by"
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


ANCESTORS, by RICARDO JAIMES FREYRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lake of the sun, that near the clouds dost slumber
Last Line: To make the new world's race which lives today!
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Ancestors And Ancestry; Civilization; Incas; South America


AND INDIANS, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They made a word for light when it went out,
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ANGLE OF GEESE, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall we adorn / recognition with our speech?
Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ANY NEWS FROM ALPHA CENTAURI, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dog suddenly punched the back of his knee with its snout
Last Line: All its doors
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Native Americans; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


APAUKEE, THE HALF BREED, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apaukee, the half-breed, rode on the edge of the canyon
Last Line: And claws of the coyote could not defile it.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Fate; Love; Native Americans; Tears; Destiny; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ARIZONA POEMS: 6. RAIN IN THE DESERT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The huge red-buttressed mesa over yonder
Last Line: Whirling, extinguishing the last red wisp of light.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Native Americans; Rain; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ARROW MAKER, by CHAPMAN JAMES MILLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Discarded flakes of gleaming amber flint
Last Line: The arrow-man each day, for I am he!
Subject(s): Arrows; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AS RED MEN DIE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Captive! Is there a hell to him like this?
Last Line: He bends to death—but never to disgrace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Courage; Hostages; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Pride; Valor; Bravery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Self-esteem; Self-respect


AT GULL LAKE: AUGUST, 1810, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gull lake set in the rolling prairie
Last Line: Knew where she lay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C.
Subject(s): Lakes; Native Americans; Nature; Pools; Ponds; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AT THIS POINT, THE MOON STARTS TO TAKE ON A LITTLE BROWN AND GRAY..., by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up in the andes / an old peruvian
Last Line: The old peruvian
Subject(s): Mountains; Peru; South America; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life
Last Line: The farmers in the sky and in the nebulae
Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 3, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daybreak. The chicha finally explodes
Last Line: Tucks up her saffron-colored thighs
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Native Americans; Wine; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BACK TO ALBANY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A bird turned loose among the flowers
Last Line: Sent back to boost for albany.
Subject(s): Albany, New York; Native Americans; Travel; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


BAY POEM, by LANCE HENSON                       
First Line: Where from the watch towers
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BENEATH RED CLAY, by DORA SANDERS THOMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The death-moth hovered over kan-neh-tee
Last Line: And god -- in her heart.
Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BETTY ZANE, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Women are timid, cower and shrink
Last Line: Mingles the blood of betty zane.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Fort Henry, Battle Of (1777); Native Americans; Zane, Elizabeth; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BITTER SWEET, by MARIE TODD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Braided locks,' gaunt old cheyenne indian
Last Line: "into the skull and gloated, ""much good honey."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BLACK EAGLE RETURNS TO ST. JOE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This way and that way measuring
Last Line: I was a swift runner whom they tripped.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BOGOTA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three at night %I drag this naked life along
Last Line: Stride toward yet another passage, step into the water and live
Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Latin America - History; South America; Tourists; Travel


BY AN INDIAN GRAVE, by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sleep on, dead seminole - your bones are chalk
Last Line: And we two dream together, seminole.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Native Americans; Dead, The; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BY THE RIVERSIDE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I lived at a riverside
Last Line: Only to me. The numbers have not changed.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Telephone Directories; Women; Women's Rights; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Feminism


CANADIANS AND POTTAWATOMIES, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen a loneliness sit
Subject(s): Loneliness; Canada; Native Americans; Canadians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CANOE SONG, by IDA STERNFELS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Straight as an arrow
Last Line: Weaving my burial blanket.
Subject(s): Canoes And Canoeing; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CANTO 25; THE WAR CLOUD, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Five happy years have told their flight
Last Line: And all the coming storm await.
Subject(s): Heroism; Nations; Native Americans; Prophecy & Prophets; War; Heroes; Heroines; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CANTO 27; WA-BE-NO-KA, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A night upon the battle field
Last Line: And freely sheds her grateful tears.
Subject(s): Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Night; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bedtime


CANTO 9; THE GREAT TURTLE, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When fierce beset with dire alarms
Last Line: A charnel house of human bones.
Subject(s): Hate; Islands; Mythology; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CAPTIVITY, by LOUISE ERDRICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stream was swift, and so cold
Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CARTAGENA, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain and thunder beat down and flooded the streets
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CAT-TAILS, by KATHERINE TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Then thousand regal cat-tails stand
Last Line: Once held the drifting, desert sands at bay.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Prairies; South Dakota; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains


CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When we reach the field
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women Writers; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CHAHINKAPA, by F. H. MCMAHON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Men of the sioux whose bodies are peacefully resting
Last Line: After the builder a home where his children abide.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CHANT TO A WERE-BEAR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "were-bear, why are you not in hell?"
Subject(s): Animals;bears;mythology - Native American;native Americans;superstition; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


CHIEF LESCHI OF THE NISQUALLY, by DUANE NIATUM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He awoke this morning fram a strange dream [or, uneasily from a dream]
Last Line: Little and speak less before he hangs.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CHINOOK, by THELMA HILL WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Moonlight shaking, low waves breaking
Last Line: Die a little death.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


COMES THE INDIAN, by ETHEL ESTES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Comes the indian to his dancing
Last Line: Comes the indian to his dancing.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CONDOR'S NEST, by OLEGARIO VICTOR ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the black shadow of the mountain-side
Last Line: As once from his lone peak amid the sky!
Subject(s): Argentina; Fights; South America; Victory


CULTURE AND THE UNIVERSE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two nights ago
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CUZCO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wily monarch
Last Line: And the rest with her husband pluto
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 1. PARTHENOGENSIS BABY IN STONE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the first hours of cuzco
Last Line: Of the hard world %in high altitude
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 2. ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A LOST LITTLE GIRL, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I climbed down the ladder to you on the beach
Last Line: The fog moving in with the setting sun
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 3. THE SOUL OF CUZCO IS A STONE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out the window cuzco! Eleven thousand feet
Last Line: Mamakilla %wife of the sun and queen of the night
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 4. EL MACHISMO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Descend the pink cobblestone street
Last Line: You %my green eyed girl
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 5. SAQSAYWAMAN, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Or perhaps it was %that the stone itself
Last Line: Satisfy the fool!
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 6. JESUS VIRAQOCHA TEMBLORESMAN MI JESUS PRESENTE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Viraqocha, lord of the universe %whether male or female
Last Line: And that the rain of stones %is but a handful of sweets
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 7. PARHENON IN STONE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Queen of the cuzco virgins %is the virgin of bethlehem
Last Line: Are there any good men, mom?
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 8. SOUTH AMERICAN MI HIJA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walls within walls friday night when I walk
Last Line: Nature outside him %his mother %inside him
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 9. MAMAPACHA THE LOVING MOTHER OF MEN, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside the crooked window, the thick adobe walls
Last Line: Eros can't move %between them
Subject(s): South America


DEDICATED TO A YOUNG LADY REPRESENTING THE INDIAN RACE AT HOWARD UNIV, by ALFRED ISLAY WALDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While sitting in my room kind miss
Last Line: As here have ever been.
Subject(s): Howard University; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


DEERFIELD: 1703, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the break of day the minister was awakened
Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; Native Americans; Massacres; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


DO NOT SPEAK KERESAN TO A MESCALERO APACHE, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not speak
Last Line: Is unmarked.
Subject(s): Apache Indians; Conversation; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


DRIVING IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On humming rubber along this white concrete
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Recessions; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


DUST-BOWL, by RUTH E. ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Indian / watch white-man chop trees
Last Line: Now earth go like smoke.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


EARLY AMERICAN, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From brazil to miami to a roadside motel to a super billboard
Last Line: The pale hands of our brothers upon us
Subject(s): Billboards; Native Americans; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America


EL VAQUERO, by LUCIUS HARWOOD FOOTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tinged with the blood of aztec lands
Last Line: Greek of the greeks he must remain.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ELEGY TO THE SIOUX, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vase was made of clay
Last Line: Out of the sky into montana...
Subject(s): Birth; Genocide; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Native Americans; Small Pox; Child Birth; Midwifery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


EMPTY WORDS, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He describes eagle feathers with his hands
Last Line: Empty hands, and words, empty words.
Subject(s): Conversation; Deafness; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 1. PSYCHE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Psyche at earth's core
Last Line: On her butterfly wings
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 2. THE DEATH WISH, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I touch the stone and see %every human being
Last Line: Our sickness
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 3. MOTHER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I touch the stone, the powerful proportion
Last Line: They will turn %the sun from earth
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 4. GENDER: A. MALE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who comes to recognize himself as 'other'
Last Line: When he destroys the earth
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 4. GENDER: B. FEMALE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: You will know yourself female
Last Line: Your daughter spoils
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 5. FATHER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I touch the stone and know %myself
Last Line: His oldest %adversary
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 6. THE RETURN OF GODDESS, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I touch the stone and see %the son
Last Line: That love may rise
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 7. HIJA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I touch the stone %the world breaks open
Last Line: Chaimita tapukui
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 7. HIJO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I touch the stone and know %the laws work only
Last Line: The world break open
Subject(s): South America


EVEN FORSAKEN THEY'D FLOWER, by RAUL ZURITA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forsaken they would not see the prairies but only a cry
Last Line: Themselves with joy singing even forsaken they'd flower
Subject(s): Abandonment; Chile; Fields; South America


FAMILY REUNION, by LOUISE ERDRICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ray's third new car in half as many years
Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


FOOT-PRINTS, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shadows of lilac echo the form
Last Line: Unchanging, changing—you remain.
Subject(s): Footprints; Native Americans; Shadows; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


FOUR MATRICES: 2. COUNTING ARIZONA, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amphora in rocks. Kachina of fur and rust. The land
Last Line: Mexico and peopless. And too much sun. I want to go home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Native Americans; Nature; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


FUNERAL OF MAZEEN; THE LAST OF THE ... MOHEGAN NATION, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid the trodden turf is an open grave
Last Line: And plead for your pale-brow'd brother's guilt.
Subject(s): Funerals; Hope; Native Americans; Sin; Soul; Burials; Optimism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


GHOSTS AT KE SON, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the bullets
Last Line: The faces, the faces of the strangers are the same
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


GLYPHS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: & the code / public record stopped midsentence
Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Tongues; Words; Vocabulary; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


GOMEZ TO BLANCO, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can honor for gold be bartered? Are treason and truth at one?
Last Line: God bless her dauntless heroes! That day we soon shall see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Freedom; South America; Wealth; Liberty; Riches; Fortunes


GRACE, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of wind and her wild ways the year we had nothing to lose and lost it anyway
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


GRAND RAPIDS, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild roved the indians once
Last Line: Is the city of grand rapids.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


GREAT IS DIANA OF THE MANNAHATTOES!, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Northward! Northward! Goddess of the tower
Last Line: The smoke of sacrifice!
Subject(s): Hudson River; Native Americans; New York City; Ships & Shipping; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


HARLEM, MONTANA: JUST OFF THE RESERVATION, by JAMES WELCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We need no runners here. Booze is law
Last Line: Help us, oh god, we're rich.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 1. ALTURAS DE MACCHU PICCHU, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then up the ladder of earth I climbed
Last Line: Rise up %to birth with me %my daughter
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 1. VALLE SAGRADO DE LA INKAS, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ahead out the window the local train
Last Line: We leave our ghost in a long snake of train smoke
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 10. 72 DEGREES WEST 13 SOUTH, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Awake. Far cry of the quena. Yaravi
Last Line: Kingdom with love %thrown in, for her
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 11. WHY DID THEU LEAVE?, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm rising %from the basin of the sea
Last Line: My pack on my back, and flee %into the unknown
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 3. THE VIRGIN, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside a high round room
Last Line: Life of death %on this planet
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 4. CERES AND KORE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ten minutes to noon
Last Line: Hide in her feathers
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 5. PHOTOGRAPH OF THE VIRGINS, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the present is a woman in orgasm
Last Line: Isthmus of darien %central to america
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 6. LYSISTRATA AMERRIQUE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now to tread the dance
Last Line: How the world ends %in the coffin %of gender
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 7. WOMEN RAISED CHILDREN, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is it only at the end of the world
Last Line: In search of its father
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 8. ELECTRA AMERRIQUE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up here men's feet found rest at night
Last Line: To make the world a blank
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 9. IPHIGENIA AMERRIQUE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is so close, the smell of granite
Last Line: My question %his answer
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU, by ALFONSINA BARRIONUEVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The conqueror's eyes lit on the lovely girl
Last Line: In machupiqchu, %the secret city %concealed for centuries
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU: 10, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stone upon stone, and man, where was he?
Last Line: Of your bitter gut, like an eagle, hunger?
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): History; Hunger; Mountain Climbing; South America; Stones


HORN OF PLENTY, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bright in america's deep chests there lies
Last Line: Through her own emeralds she gazed on them
Subject(s): Peru; South America; Wealth


HOSPITALITY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay low yon impious trappings on the ground
Last Line: And deems of other bosoms by her own.
Subject(s): Hospitality; Native Americans; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pioneers; U.s. - Colonial Period; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


HOT AFTERNOONS HAVE BEEN IN MONTANA, by ELI SIEGEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Quiet and green was the grass of the field
Last Line: Giving world.
Subject(s): Montana; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


HOW TO WRITE THE GREAT AMERICAN INDIAN NOVEL, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All of the indians must have tragic features: tragic noses, eyes, and arms.
Last Line: All of the white people will be indians and all of the indians will be ghosts
Subject(s): Native Americans; Novels & Novelists; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


I THINK OVER AGAIN MY SMALL ADVENTURES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And the light that fills the world
Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


IMPERFECT TIMES, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peru was a chimera
Last Line: What will it be?
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru; South America


IN PRAISE OF NECESSITY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nostalgia of old men
Last Line: That makes dead meat of the years
Subject(s): Genocide; Native Americans; Progress; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


IN THE LONGHOUSE, ONEIDA MUSEUM, by ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Houses of five fires, you never raised me
Last Line: Without oil, hasp or uranium.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hill, Roberta
Subject(s): Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN GIRL'S BURIAL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A voice upon the prairies
Last Line: As here they mourn for thee.
Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Tuberculosis; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Consumption (pathology)


INDIAN GIVER, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life, you have taken all you ever gave me
Last Line: You cannot take away your gift of death!
Subject(s): Death; Life; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN LOVE SONG, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak low to me, my love, speak low
Last Line: Let them not hear! Speak low, my sweet!
Subject(s): Love; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN LULLABY, by CLAUDE BRYAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sleep, my little papoose, sleep on
Last Line: Should be thy lullaby.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN LULLABY, by CHARLES MYALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rock-a-by, hush-a-by, little papoose
Last Line: Till time when the morning light gleams.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN MOUND, by IDA LITTLE HALE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside the road a crumbling old shell mound
Last Line: The mound serenely dreams while years go by.
Subject(s): Graves; Native Americans; Tombs; Tombstones; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN NAMES, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye say they all have passed away - that noble race
Last Line: Though ye destroy their dust.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN REQUIEM, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A song of their own they were singing
Last Line: Alas, that their wild song is done.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN RUG WEAVER, by HORTENSE SMITH MACDOUGALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Weaving, weaving the long hours away
Last Line: Weaving, weaving!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Weavers And Weaving; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN SLEEP-SONG, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Zhoo ... Zhoo, zhoo
Last Line: Sleep softly till dawn.
Subject(s): Animals; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN SONG, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadowy-petalled, like the lotus, loom the
Last Line: Where in worlds of lovely silence fade in one the starry race.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Brahma; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN SUMMER, by ROLLIN L. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great white father! Won't you listen?
Last Line: Save us from the setting sun?
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN WOMAN'S DEATH-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down a broad river of the western wilds
Last Line: "one moment, and that realm is ours. On, on, dark rolling stream!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Drowning; Native Americans; Women; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIANS, by NANETTE NICHOLS COBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hear the beating of the tom - tom
Last Line: Death does not restrict their bounds.
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIANS, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They wear the squash-flower cut in silver
Last Line: The rainbow to the soul.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIANS (DEERFIELD MEMORIAL HALL), by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Dulcimer, play me a little tune
Last Line: Praise be for the story's end!
Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; Massacres; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIANS SELL THINGS ALONG OUR STREETS, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Watercress from a wind-blown mountain fall
Last Line: With wind-flowers in my exquisite bouquet. . . .
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Native Americans; Salespersons; Streets; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Selling; Avenues


INSCRIPTION, FOR BAS-RELIEF BY PRESTON POWERS, DENVER PARK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eagle, stooping from yon snow-blown peaks
Last Line: Their graven semblance in the eternal stone.
Subject(s): Bison; Native Americans; Statues; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INSPIRATION, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where even at the height of summer
Last Line: Gallicism crying in the wilderness of america!
Subject(s): Sao Paulo, Brazil; South America; Travel


IOWAY TO IOWA, by MAY M. HUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: From his primal home in the woodland
Last Line: For their chief so brave and true.
Subject(s): Iowa; Names; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


JASON LEE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cry from the gloom of the western wilds!
Last Line: The stalwart jason lee.
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); West (u.s.); Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Native Americans - Removal; Southwest; Pacific States


JOHNNY APPLESEED; A BALLAD OF THE OLD NORTHWEST, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A midnight cry appalls the gloom
Last Line: In god's grand greenwood chapel.
Subject(s): Appleseed, Johnny; Chapman, John (1774-1845); Middle West; Native Americans; Patriotism; Pioneers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


JULOT THE APACHE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You've heard of julot the apache, and gigolette, him mome
Last Line: "say! -- it's the first communion of that little girl of mine."
Subject(s): Apache Indians; Native Americans; Paris, France; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LAKE SARATOGA; AN INDIAN LEGEND, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lady stands beside the silver lake
Last Line: "the pale-faced woman cannot hold her tongue!"
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LAMENT FOR THE DORSETS, by ALFRED WELLINGTON PURDY    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Animal bones and some mossy tent rings
Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Al
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LARANOWA, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Laranowa of the mohawks, lovely iroquois
Last Line: Laranowa of the mohawks, lovely iroquois!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LIKE MEN OF OLD, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was three of them trapped in an old chateau
Last Line: Of the dead men three who had held them hard till the flag came over the hill!
Subject(s): Native Americans; World War I; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; First World War


LIMA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: At length in wrath and in grief
Last Line: Of the monarch, of the realms of the dead
Subject(s): South America


LIMA: 1. PLUTO AND DEMETER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Descend from the inside, descend
Last Line: In the pornographic fantasy %of no attachments
Subject(s): South America


LIMA: 2. NIGHT: BURIED AMERICA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside the lust to annihilate
Last Line: Is killing the state %is freedom
Subject(s): South America


LIMA: 3. PATRIARCHY THE PREVAILING RELIGION OF THE WORLD, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Being like maize grains fell
Last Line: Though she gave only her body
Subject(s): South America


LIMA: 4. COJO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the middle of the five-way intersection
Last Line: Up his ancestral land
Subject(s): South America


LIMA: 5. MIRROR, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: For days I've glimpsed her as as I've moved down the hall
Last Line: Divine of my body %amerrique
Subject(s): South America


LIMA: 6. MAMACOCHA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: From lima we enter the sea
Last Line: Past all argument %of the earth
Subject(s): South America


LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, OKLAHOMA, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have never lived on the reservation
Last Line: Lifts his pony, flings it at the moon.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Solitude; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Loneliness


LITTLE ESKIMO, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little eskimo, are you
Last Line: Like to live in our land, too?
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Summer; Travel; Vacation; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


LITTLE MOCCASINS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come out, o little moccasins, and frolic on the snow!
Last Line: (o fiddle mine! The tears to-night are drumming on your breast.)
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LOCAL COLOR, by LOIS RANDOLPH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The navajo shepherd tends his sheep
Last Line: She-tha-sie.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Tourists; Writing & Writers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LOST HERITAGE, by JENNIE HARRIS OLIVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where once my prairies were, waist-high, in blue stem
Last Line: O, white man, listen! The red earth is mine!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LOVE SONG OF THE OMAHAS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fades the star of morning
Last Line: Hear thy lover's cry!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Longing; Love; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LULLABY OF THE IROQUOIS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest
Last Line: Little brown baby of mine, go to sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Babies; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Songs


MAGIC FOX, by JAMES WELCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They shook the green leaves down
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MAGIC WORDS (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the very earliest time
Last Line: Nobody could explain this: / that's the way it was
Subject(s): Cosmology;creation;eskimos;mythology - Native American;native Americans;religion; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America;theology


MARCH-PATROL OF THE NAKED HEROES, by HERBERT S. GORMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hoofs of thunder, fetlocks splashed with sunrise
Last Line: In the morning.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MIANTOWONA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ere the pale face
Last Line: "miantowona!"
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MONUMENT MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
Last Line: Is call the mountain of the monument.
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Grief; Incest; Legends; Native Americans; Suicide; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MOODS, by DAVID O'NEIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: On a lone hillside
Last Line: To your madness.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MORTIFICATION, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone dies & / then a cat dies
Subject(s): Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MUSKOKA, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chide not the leisure of this drifting moon
Last Line: Her rugged grass and slow and hardy flowers.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MYTHICAL FOUNDING OF BUENOS AIRES, by JORGE LUIS BORGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And was it along this torpid muddy river
Last Line: Hard to believe buenos aires had any beginning. %I feel it to be as eternal as air and water
Subject(s): Argentina; Cities; History; South America


NAVAJO LEGEND, by WILLARD JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it true, mother, that the mountain sun
Last Line: By god-like boys.
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Deserts; Food & Eating; Horses; Mothers; Mountains; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


NAVAJO LOVE SONG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are riding out in the morning
Last Line: Na-na-litch, na-litch, nandeen!
Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Love; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


NEITHER SPIRIT NOR BIRD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Leaping under the willows
Subject(s): Desire;flutes;hearts;love;native Americans;relationships; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


NEW MEXICAN MOUNTAIN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch the indians dancing to help the young corn at taos pueblo
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; New Mexico; Tourists; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


NEW NATION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain of white ice
Subject(s): United States - History; Native Americans; Massacres; Slavery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Serfs


NIGHT OUT, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen you in the palms of my hands
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Native Americans; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


NORTH AMERICAN DEATH SONG, by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day
Last Line: And thy son, o alknomook, has scorned to complain.
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OKLAHOMA, by DAISY LEMON COLDIRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A hungry kiowa
Last Line: It is -- oklahoma!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OLD CHARLEY, by KATHE HEIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old charley is dead now
Last Line: Even his soul.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OLD SQUAW HILL, by LUCY JONES TYSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Before the feet of white men trod
Last Line: A sentinel to guard the plain.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Native Americans - Wars; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OMBU, by LUIS L. DOMINGUEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every territory on earth has a conspicuous feature
Last Line: Beautiful growth, that rises to the clouds, like the lighthouse of %that sea
Subject(s): Argentina; Memory; South America; Travel


ON THE BIG HORN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The years are but half a score
Last Line: Break forth into praise of god!
Subject(s): Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Native Americans; Rain-in-the-face (indian Chief); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even though it happened as long ago as the late fifties, I could still draw
Subject(s): Native Americans; Graves; Smoking; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tombs; Tombstones; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


ONE WORD, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The arizona sky is a bowl of one word blue
Last Line: America?
Subject(s): Apache Indians; Arizona; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OSAWATOMIE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know how he came
Last Line: And the fool killers had a laugh
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Native Americans; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OSCEOLA, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When his hour for death had come
Last Line: (and here a line in memory of his name and death.)
Subject(s): Native Americans; Osceola, Leader Of Seminoles (1804-1838); Social Protest; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OUR ABORIGINES, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the forests as they cried
Last Line: Fled mournfully away.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OUR MOTHER POCAHONTAS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Powhatan was conqueror
Last Line: Our mother, pocahontas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); World War I; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; First World War


OXAITOQ'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "inland, inland, inland, inland"
Last Line: They love me only on account of the food I obtain for them
Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


PAN-AMERICA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan-america, glorious name!
Last Line: But -- who holds the handle and what's in the pan?
Subject(s): Language; South America; Words; Vocabulary


PARAGRAPHS: 9, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the custom of my tribe to be silent
Last Line: Indivisible, unvoiced
Subject(s): Native Americans; Snow; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


PARALLAX, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kwakwha / askwali
Last Line: Whenever, wherever.
Subject(s): Hopi Indians; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


POCAHONTAS, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the barren sand
Last Line: And breathes a prayer for him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


POCAHONTAS [JANUARY 5, 1608], by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wearied arm and broken sword
Last Line: Saved a captive englishman.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


POWWOW, by R. ALICE FIKSDAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tum, tum, tum, tum! Tum, tum, tum!
Last Line: Four ragged chieftains beating on a drum!
Subject(s): Bells; Musical Instruments; Native Americans; Singing & Singers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Songs


PUEBLO LEGEND, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The ancient tribes, when they and earth were new
Last Line: Carved round a font the image of a snake?
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


QUITO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Persephone screamed for her mother
Last Line: Persephone was made his queen
Subject(s): South America


QUITO: 1. THE WANDERING VIRGIN OF QUITO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out the window
Last Line: She wants %me
Subject(s): South America


QUITO: 2. I AM THE ROSE OF SHARON, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: By night on my bed I seek him
Last Line: The earth quakes and my love loses %my grandmother's quilt
Subject(s): South America


QUITO: 3. DEMETER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dark people are floating on the rivers of urine
Last Line: Will the stones speak?
Subject(s): South America


QUITO: 4. DAWN, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will always be on the equator
Last Line: This hell %the seasons
Subject(s): South America


RED BUCK BILL, by HENRY T. CHAMBERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Red buck bill was a tonkawa
Last Line: You can see his grave.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


RED INDIAN, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Purest of breed of all the tribes
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


RED JACKET, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cooper, whose name is with his country's woven
Last Line: Thy name, thy fame, thy passions, and thy throne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Variant Title(s): On A Portrait Of A Red Jacket;to A Portrait Of A Red Jacket
Subject(s): Native Americans; Red Jacket. Seneca Chief (1756-1830); Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


REDWING, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The readers of poetry, the writers of
Last Line: Of the monster
Subject(s): Native Americans; Birds; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


RETRIBUTION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know where the timid fawn abides'
Last Line: "from maquon, the fond and the brave."
Variant Title(s): An Indian Story
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ROAD TO CUZCO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: She stood before arethusa like one stupefied
Last Line: To demand of pluto %the release of persephone
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO CUZCO: 1. ECSTASY IS IDENTITY WITH ALL EXISTENCE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A year ago today I found jonathan dead
Last Line: By men %their wounded inexistence
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO CUZCO: 2. QUEDA EL ALMA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mama probably cried, mother hardly moaning. Now no one wanted
Last Line: Conception %a man, enemy
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO CUZCO: 3. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the window huancayo, city of indians
Last Line: Beneath your window %holding your gun
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO CUZCO: 4. EDITH LAGOS PRESENT, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside the bus a baby cries
Last Line: Against every society's %betrayal of the child
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO CUZCO: 5. FATHER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I think of your father now I think of the poet
Last Line: You %our karma
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO CUZCO: 6. NUESTRO CHE: THE MONROE DOCTRINE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night armies of people and your guerrillas
Last Line: You murdered me %los hijos, los hijos amerrique
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO LIMA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Persephone's screams were heard only by her mother
Last Line: Which was unavailing
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO LIMA: 1. PAN AMERICAN, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The earth spins
Last Line: Graffiti %on the plaza wall
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO LIMA: 2. MY LITTLE MONEY CHANGER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the morning at the border
Last Line: Both countries, su madre %following
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO LIMA: 3. PERU, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out the window the pacific ocean
Last Line: You are the world
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO QUITO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the earliest story %persephone was playing with her companions and her mothe
Last Line: He raped her. Then carried her down %into his abyss
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO QUITO: 1. DESCENT: LA VIOLENCIA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out the window, columbia, out the window
Last Line: My orpheus, you follow us down %the andean night
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO QUITO: 2. SOMEONE WAITING FOR ME AMONG VIOLINS, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am with you in the small house of our life
Last Line: The bottom darkens, erupts %into flames
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO QUITO: 3. DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the morning waterfalls and her giggles
Last Line: But we do not have prejudice %as you have it %against colors
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO QUITO: 4. LOVE, LOVE, DO NOT COME NEAR BORDER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are the only ones to cross equador
Last Line: Let us leave
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO QUITO: 5. EQUAL, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside the borders guarded by pornography
Last Line: To cayambe, right over %the equador, hump %of the earth
Subject(s): South America


SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a - captive and wife was she
Last Line: "sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a, who led the way to the west!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Clark, William (1770-1838); Explorers; History; Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809); Native Americans; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SAINCLAIRE'S DEFEAT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'twas november the fourth, in the year of 'ninety-one"
Last Line: "he fell that day amongst the slain, a valiant man was he"
Subject(s): "native Americans;ohio;st. Clair, Arthur (1736-1818);" Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SANTOS VEGA: THE SOUL OF THE SINGER, by RAFAEL OBLIGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: When evening bends sighing towards the west, a
Last Line: The country of echeverria, the land of santos vega!
Subject(s): Argentina; Death; Soul; South America; Worship


SAVAGES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heathen hailed us from the beach
Last Line: Who set thy temple on the hill.
Subject(s): Murder; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; War; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SAVAGES (TO KHAMA, SEBELE AND BATHOEN), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As stags that o'er some moonlit pasture range
Last Line: Mortality shall die?
Subject(s): Native Americans; Trade; Wandering & Wanderers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SCHOLARLY PROCEDURE, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moves like an indian in the underbrush
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SEA-LOVE (PUGET SOUND INDIAN), by ANNICE CALLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Harken! The drum-beat of the sea
Last Line: O drum-beat of the sea!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Puget Sound; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SEMINOLE LULLABY, by EMMA ROBERTS WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sleep, little wood-pigeon
Last Line: Est-to-chee, slumber and sleep.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SEMINOLE SONG CYCLE: INVOCATION TO THE DAWN, by HARRIET LYON LEONARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sun god, smile the night's shadow away
Last Line: Grant us to see thy face.
Subject(s): Dawn; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Sunrise; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SEMINOLE SONG CYCLE: LULLABY, by HARRIET LYON LEONARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: See that baby star on high
Last Line: On my little brown papoose.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SEMINOLE SONG CYCLE: NOONDAY SONG, by HARRIET LYON LEONARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The noon is hot. Come, let us seek
Last Line: In my own staunch canoe.
Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SHE HAD SOME HORSES, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Native Americans; Horses; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SHOES, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here I sit with hard eyes looking at my child
Last Line: To suffer torture indian-gauntlet-runner never knew.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pain; Poverty; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Suffering; Misery


SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upgrade, past snow-tangled bramble, past
Last Line: The dog exploded
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Eskimos; Native Americans; Dead, The; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SILHOUETTE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky-line melts from the russet into blue
Last Line: Out mutely that naught else to him remains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Change; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SIOUX SONGS: A FLYING HORSE (THE SPOTTED HORSE), by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Friend like a flying bird is my horse
Last Line: Like a thunderbird streaked with the lightning he flies!
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SIOUX SONGS: LAMENT FOR KIMIMLIA-SKA, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: White butterfly, my warrior son is dead
Last Line: Mourn with me, o my tribe, for he is dead!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SIOUX SONGS: SIYAKA TO HIS HORSE, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are in danger, the crows are surrounding us!
Last Line: Here is a horse that has aided a man!
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SONG OF THE CHICKASAH WIDOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the voice of my husband that came on the gale
Last Line: And I shall have joy in revenge.
Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Revenge; Vengeance; Widows & Widowers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SONG OF THE EVIL SPIRIT OF THE WOODS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the vapour hot and damp
Last Line: Rankling all, the wretch expires!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Forests; Native Americans; New York State; Travel; Woods; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


SONG OF THE FULL CATCH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "here's good wind, here's sweet wind"
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;love;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SONG OF THE HORSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How joyous his neigh!
Last Line: How joyous his neigh!
Subject(s): Animals;horses;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SONG OF THE INDIAN MOTHER, by JAMES GOWDY CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gently dream, my darling child
Last Line: Lullaby, my gentle boy, etc.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SONG OF WELCOME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "ai, ai, my small red man"
Subject(s): Babies;creation;mothers;mythology - Native American;native Americans; Infants;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SONG TO THE WANDERER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I cannot stay, I cannot stay"
Subject(s): Mythology;mythology - Native American;native Americans;wandering & Wanderers;; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 11. INDIAN ROCK: WISSAHICKON, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far from the troubled city's sights and sounds
Last Line: Of these fair hills and vales and streams, so long their right.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SOUTH AMERICA MI HIJA (COMPLETE), by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): South America


SPIT, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chipewyans play it
Subject(s): Native Americans; Games; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


STATE FOR STATE, WITH ALL ATTENDANTS, WHO WOULD CHANGE? NOT, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some in the godspeed, the susan c.
Variant Title(s): Enough
Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SUMMER SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "aya!/ ayaya, it is beautiful, beautiful it is out-doors when the summer comes"
Last Line: "ayaya, ayaya, aya!"
Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


TESTAMENT, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll leave my shadow
Last Line: And feed oblivion with such delicacies
Subject(s): Peru; South America; Writing And Writers


THANKSGIVING, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What's sweeter than at the end of a summer's day
Subject(s): Native Americans; Thanksgiving Day; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE AMERICAN INDIAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There once were some people called sioux
Last Line: "don't think that they made them to ioux / oh! No, they just sold them for bioux"
Variant Title(s): The Indian
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE ARCHERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stripped to the waist his copper-coloured skin
Last Line: Transporting into heaven both maid and man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Enemies; Hunting; Murder; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Awake! Awake! My gallant friends
Last Line: Come gaul or briton; if arrayed / for fight - he'll feel a freeman's blade
Subject(s): "harrison, William Henry (1773-1841);middle West;native Americans;tippecanoe, Battle Of (1811);" Midwest;old Northwest;central States;north Central States;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE BEAR'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have taken the woman of beauty
Last Line: For her I made this song and for her I sing it
Subject(s): Beauty;haida Indians;love;native Americans;women; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE BRIDAL OF PENNACOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We had been wandering for many days
Last Line: Mingled and murmured in that farewell song.
Variant Title(s): The White Mountains
Subject(s): Brides; Concord, New Hampshire; Native Americans; Rivers; White Mountains, New Hampshire; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE BUFFALO COAT, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see him moving, in his legendary fleece
Last Line: Is old and cold in a world his death began
Subject(s): Buffaloes; History; Native Americans; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE CAPTIVE'S HYMN (1764), by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The indian war was over
Last Line: That morning in carlisle.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Carlisle, Pennsylvania; French And Indian Wars; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE CHIEF'S PRAYER AFTER THE SALMON CATCH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o kia-kunae, praise!"
Last Line: Priae! Praise! Praise!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;native Americans;salmon; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE CHILD OF THE FORESTS; WRITTEN AFTER READING JOHN HUNTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is not thy heart far off amidst the wood
Last Line: Seek not the deserts and the woods again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Native Americans; Woods; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE CLIFF OF THE CEDAR TREE, by RICHARD FORSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oowan-nanawam-anoon-atroc
Last Line: "on the cliff of the cedar tree."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE CORN HUSKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard by the indian lodges, where the bush
Last Line: Like the dead husks that rustle through her hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Corn; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Metaphor; Native Americans; Weariness; Work; Workers; Similes; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Fatigue


THE CROSS IN THE WILDERNESS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent and mournful sat an indian chief
Last Line: Deep thoughts and sad, yet full of holiness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Graves; Native Americans; Tombs; Tombstones; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 2, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They buried gray; his gear was sold; his farm
Last Line: She flung her down and cried I' the withered daffodils
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Love; Oaths; South America; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 3, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The steaming river loitered like old blood
Last Line: And lion watched her pass among the daffodils.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Abandonment; Cruelty; Love; Pleasure; South America; Travel; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Journeys; Trips; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 4, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time passed, but still no letter came; she ceased
Last Line: As colts in april feel there in the daffodils.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Abandonment; Longing; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; South America; Waiting; Desertion


THE DEATH OF COLMAN, by THOMAS FROST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas juet spoke - the half moon's mate
Last Line: One choking thought -- the loneliness!
Subject(s): Hudson, Henry (1550-1611); Native Americans; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness


THE DEATH OF CRAZY HORSE, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now 'twas done
Last Line: These many grasses and these many snows.
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


THE ENDANGERED ROOTS OF A PERSON, by WENDY ROSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember lying awake
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE EXCAVATION, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this dry, stubble field
Last Line: In this dry, stubble field.
Subject(s): Archeology; Artifacts; Curiosities & Wonders; Fathers; Native Americans; Old Age; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE FEAST OF PADRE CHALA, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are solemn figures walking up the roadway to
Last Line: "praise saint thomas, of tocaima -- none can question now or doubt him!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Saints; South America


THE FIRE-MAIDEN AND THE SNOW-PEAKS; AN INDIAN LEGEND OF THE COLUMBIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Loowit, the beautiful maiden
Last Line: Rolls proudly at their side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Columbia River (north America); Fire; Legends, Native American; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE FOUNTAIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Traveller! On thy journey toiling
Last Line: Of the indian and his well.
Subject(s): Fountains; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE FOUR WINDS (A SENECA LULLABY), by LUDWIG VON STOLZ MAYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little gahana, hush!
Last Line: Neoga, the fawn, is near.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Seneca Indians; Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE FUNERAL TREE OF THE SOKOKIS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Around sebago's lonely lake
Last Line: The indian's fitting monument!
Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Sebago (lake), Maine; Trees; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE GHOSTS OF THE BUFFALOES, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night at black midnight I woke
Last Line: Good-night, good-night...Good-night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Buffaloes; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE GRASS ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, long long"
Last Line: And the grass on the mountain
Subject(s): Grass;mountains;native Americans; Hills;downs (great Britain);indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE GUIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We rode across the level plain
Last Line: "will I be drunken!' is it so?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Leadership; Memory; Native Americans; Nature; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE HALF-BREED (ON A JOURNEY WITH HIS WHITE RELATIVES), by AGNES MARIE SERUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let them push on and with them that spirit
Last Line: Our sires were buried in this prairie sod.
Subject(s): Native Americans; South Dakota; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the rose gold westland, its yellow prairies roll
Last Line: Would fain sail westward unto you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Hunting; Native Americans; Nature; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE HOME COMING (AFTER THE DEATH OF BUFFALO BILL), by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They have waited over yonder through the long
Last Line: Friends!
Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917); Death; Native Americans;" Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE HURON'S ADDRESS TO THE DEAD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother, thou wert strong in youth
Last Line: Rest in the bower of delight!
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Funerals; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; U.s. - History; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing by the shore of the great bitter water
Last Line: Are empty.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still westward with the lessening light ye go
Last Line: "each buried seed is hastening to rise!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN BURYING GROUND, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In spite of all the learned have said
Last Line: To shadows and delusions here.
Subject(s): Americans; Cemeteries; Native Americans; United States; Graveyards; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America


THE INDIAN CHIEF AND CONCONAY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The indian chieftain is far away
Last Line: With its dark and jealous shade.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN CORN PLANTER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He needs must leave the trapping and the chase
Last Line: With fostering richness, mothers every grain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Hunting; Labor & Laborers; Native Americans; Plants; Hunters; Work; Workers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Planting; Planters


THE INDIAN DANCER, by ANNA TILLMAN BOYD    Poem Text                    
First Line: O I'm an indian dancing man
Last Line: And dance as only indians can!
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN GONE!, by JOSIAH D. CANNING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By night I saw the hunter's moon
Last Line: It answered me!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN HUNTER, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, why does the white-man follow my path
Last Line: Who never did harm to him.
Variant Title(s): Song Of The Red Indian
Subject(s): Native Americans; Racism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE INDIAN MASSACRE, FR. ACADIA, by JOSEPH HOWE (1804-1873)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For them no stately canopy is spread
Last Line: To charm the list'ning ear, or touch the heart.
Subject(s): Acadia; Massacres; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN OF SAN SALVADOR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What time the countless arrow-heads of light
Last Line: "shall pass in silence to a deeper shade."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Native Americans; San Salvador, El Salvador; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN WITH HIS DEAD CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the silence of the midnight
Last Line: My father's path I tread.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Death - Children; Native Americans; Death - Babies; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN'S GRAVE, by GEORGE J. MOUNTAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bright are the heavens, the narrow bay serene
Last Line: By whom the heathen unregarded dies?
Subject(s): Graves; Native Americans; Tombs; Tombstones; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN'S REVENGE; SCENE IN THE LIFE OF A MORAVIAN MISSIONARY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was that the light from some lone,swift canoe
Last Line: Burning on high in thy majestic heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Missionaries & Missions; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN'S WELCOME TO THE PILGRIM FATHERS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above them spread a strange sky
Last Line: Say, who shall welcome thee?
Subject(s): Americans; Native Americans; Pilgrim Fathers; United States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America


THE INDIANS, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We call them savage. Oh, be just!
Last Line: Their children go -- to die!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIANS ON ALCATRAZ, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through time their sharp features have softened and blurred
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE ISLE OF FOUNTS; AN INDIAN TRADITION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Son of the stranger! Wouldst thou take
Last Line: Oh! Seek thou not the fountain isle!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE LAMENT OF THE OUTALISSI, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And I could weep! - the oneyda chief
Last Line: The death-song of an indian chief!
Variant Title(s): Dirge Of Outalissi
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE LAST CHIEF, by DEAN IRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nani-bo-jou! Nani-bo-joi!
Last Line: Where is your secret place?
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE LAST INCA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In lone caxamalca pizarro awaits
Last Line: Went up to the lord when the carnage was done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Incas; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521); South America


THE LAST MEETING OF POCAHONTAS AND THE GREAT CAPTAIN [JUNE, 1616], by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a stately hall at brentford
Last Line: "take my hand, and let us follow the great captain to his queen."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Smith, John (1580-1631); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MAN FROM WASHINGTON, by JAMES WELCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The end came easy for most of us
Subject(s): Men; Native Americans; War; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MARRIAGE OF POCAHONTAS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These episodes are taken
Last Line: Uttering cries that are almost human
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MARRIAGE OF POCAHONTAS [APRIL 5, 1614], by MRS. M. M. WEBSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: That balmy eve, within a trellised bower
Last Line: Shall raise the choral hymn from eve till morn.
Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Rolfe, John (1585-1622); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MARSHES, by MABEL WARD RUDD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where, through rank thatch, the grasping sea has put
Last Line: To see the last trace of the marshes pass?
Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Native Americans; Swamps; Urban Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


THE MISSION, by JUNE POWER REILLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A monk in brown cloth
Last Line: A new home for the indians, a new god.
Subject(s): Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MOOSE CALL, by VAUGHN H. KNIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The full moon rays streak 'cross the lake
Last Line: "then tomah whispers -- ""shoot, much shoot!"
Subject(s): Hunting; Moon; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Indians stood on a hill in bath and watched
Last Line: Into tomorrow.
Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge; Moths; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Women; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE OLD BUFFALO TRAIL, by ISABEL ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the old buffalo trail, I'm glad this autumn day
Last Line: O, buffalo trail, what legends and what marvels you could tell!
Subject(s): Autumn; Native Americans; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Paths; Trails


THE OLD CHICKASAH TO HIS GRANDSON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now go to the battle, my boy
Last Line: Till the steps of thy coming I see.
Subject(s): Duty; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Native Americans; War; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE OLD INDIAN, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We walked one morning in the long ago
Subject(s): Old Age; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear an ancient indian legend told in many a
Last Line: "tempest-quelling, stand forever; matchless, changeless, unafraid!"
Subject(s): Evil; Legends; Native Americans; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE PASSING INDIAN, by FENTON JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the shore of lonely long ago
Last Line: Ere the purple sunset calls thee home.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE PEACE MESSAGE, by BURTON EGBERT STEVENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the door of his hut sat massasoit
Last Line: His messenger of peace.
Subject(s): Massasoit (d. 1661); Native Americans; Peace; Pilgrim Fathers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE PILOT OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: False,' they said, thy pale-face lover, from the land of waking morn
Last Line: Hunters lost upon the plains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Death; Legends; Love - Cultural Differences; Native Americans; Waiting; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE POWWOW AT THE END OF THE WORLD, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall
Last Line: With my tribe during the powwow at the end of the world
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE QUIET WAYS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great god made me a man
Last Line: And the great hills that pierce the days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE QUILL WORKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Plains, plains, and the prairie land which the sunlight floods and fills
Last Line: Will broider his buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Beauty; Native Americans; Prairies; Trade; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains


THE RED MAN SPEAKS, by OLGA HILSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: In that dim and distant past
Last Line: "vanquished by the white man's god?"
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE RED-MAN'S ALTAR, by INA SIZER CASSIDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Son of nature, copper-skinned and stalwart
Last Line: Distill incense for your devotions.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Nature; Spiritual Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE RISING GLORY OF AMERICA, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now shall the adventurous muse attempt a theme
Last Line: And future years of bliss alone remain.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Native Americans; Science; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Scientists; America


THE ROUSING CANOE SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hide not, hide not"
Last Line: "only hide thee, lost enchantress"
Subject(s): Canoes And Canoeing;hunting;native Americans; Hunters;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE SECOND DEPARTURE OF CUSTER, by MARY BOYNTON COWDREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In phantom form and grand array
Last Line: To show a nation how they died.
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A VETERAN'S DAY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I happen to be a veteran
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE SONG OF THE ANCIENT PEOPLE; THE PUEBLO INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the ancient people
Last Line: Born with the wind and rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


THE SQUAW MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold
Last Line: God bless you, little laughing eyes! I'm glad.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE STRANGE PEOPLE, by LOUISE ERDRICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night I am the doe, breathing
Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise
Subject(s): Native Americans; Sports; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE TOMB OF THE BRAVE; IN COMMEMORATION OF BATTLE ON WABASH, by JOSEPH HUTTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When darkness prevail'd and aloud on the air
Last Line: And glory thus bloom o'er the tomb of the brave.
Subject(s): Middle West; Native Americans; Tippecanoe, Battle Of (1811); Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE TRAIN DOGS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the night and the north
Last Line: The wolfish blood in their veins.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Native Americans; Roads; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Paths; Trails


THE UNBOUGHT SEMINOLE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old, old man, in thicker shades
Last Line: "live on! Live on! Live on!"
Subject(s): Leadership; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Wisdom; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE UTE LOVER, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the burning brazen sky
Last Line: Lit by the moon.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE VANISHING RED, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is said to have been the last red man
Last Line: Oh, yes, he showed john the wheel pit all right
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE VAUDOIS TEACHER [MISSIONARY], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O lady fair, these silks of mine are beautiful and rare
Last Line: Where the poor and needy of earth are rich in the perfect love of god!
Subject(s): Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE WARRIOR CHIEF, by PHEBE JEWELL NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Straight, rigid, bronze, he sat his horse
Last Line: And moving the feather in his hair.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE WAY TO WAKONDA; THE GREAT SPIRIT OF THE OMAHA INDIANS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wakonda's way is the way of the wind
Last Line: And the land where the loved ones are.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Native Americans; Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE WEAVER, by EFFIE BRUCE HARDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tired heart, now I shall weave all thy longings
Last Line: Blanket of grief, I create thee, alone.
Subject(s): Blankets; Death; Grief; Native Americans; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE WILD-BEES, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All along the brazos river
Last Line: Was the fertile land of texas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pioneers; Texas; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE WOMAN FROM SPIRITWOOD, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleeping from mandan to jamestown
Last Line: Before there can be freedom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Beauty; Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


THE WYOMING MASSACRE, by URIAH TERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Kind heaven, assist the trembling muse
Last Line: Of cruel tyranny.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Massacres; Native Americans; Wyoming, Pennyslvania; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THEY ACCUSE ME OF NOT TALKING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: North people known for silence. Long
Last Line: And the relentless futility of the real?
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THOMPSON'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The book, by george! I'd rather own
Last Line: "in zadock thompson's book ""vermont."
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Native Americans; Travel; Vermont; Reading; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


TIME AS MEMORY AS STORY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Time; Native Americans; Family Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Relatives


TO & FRO, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the train to california
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TO A DEAD PEMBINA WARRIOR, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slumbering warrior-souls, afloat
Last Line: To a land of peaceful slumbers and friendly council fires.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TO A MATTABASSETT (A CONNECTICUT INDIAN), by WALTER BARDECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw him just before midnight
Last Line: So proud and cold, but weeping.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TO BOLIVAR, by RAFAEL POMBO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou fillest all of south america
Last Line: Make the stand out still greater every day
Subject(s): Bolivar, Simon (1783-1830); Heroism; South America


TO CHIEF KAMIAKIN, HAPPILY DEAD, by CLARK EMERY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Squaws on the kerosene-sprinkled floor
Last Line: Sick and drunk in the county jail.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TO KAIRI, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are you speaking spanish
Last Line: The voice is yourself
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Puerto Rico; South America


TO SITTING BULL, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no prophet without honor, save
Last Line: Our prairie when injustice is abroad.
Subject(s): Messiah; Native Americans; Prisons & Prisoners; Prophecy & Prophets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Convicts


TO THE ANDES, by GUILLERMO VALENCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, how I miss you, mountains of my home
Last Line: The summits of your rough and craggy heights!
Subject(s): Forests; Home; Memory; South America


TO THE DRIVING CLOUD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gloomy and dark art thou, o chief of the mighty omahas
Last Line: Drifts evermore to the west the scanty smokes of thy wigwams!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TRANSITION, by VIOLA K. SHAPIRO    Poem Text                    
First Line: At a fourth of july 'pow-wow' celebration
Last Line: From savagery to civilization.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TRINC: PRAISES II, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, when the grand nudes, golden as fields of grain
Last Line: Hallelujah! For the people's beer! And for all his comrades: praise!
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Native Americans; Ale; Wine; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TROPICA; A FRAGMENT, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis night in a far-off clime
Last Line: Rouse her from her dreamy rest!
Subject(s): Animals; Hunger; Hunting; Jungles; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TSANKAWI, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The men hiked on a loop trail
Last Line: "you live, I live, we live."
Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TWO AMERICAS, by RAFAEL POMBO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twins in destiny and in name, two brothers in christ
Last Line: Blessing two worlds at peace
Subject(s): Bolivar, Simon (1783-1830); Peace; South America


TWO MOON TO A JOURNALIST AFTER REHEARSAL: 1898, by GEOFFREY BROCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought then that the great spirits
Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


UNDER THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light as a leaf on the lifting swell
Last Line: I shall be deathless when ye are naught!
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; Nature; New York City; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


UTITIA'Q'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "aja, I am joyful; this is good!"
Last Line: "I am tired to watching and waking, this is good!"
Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


WAR SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here on my breast have I bled!
Last Line: I strike for life
Subject(s): Native Americans;native Americans - Wars;ojibwa Indians; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


WAR SONG: 1, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hear my voice, birds of war!"
Last Line: Bear your angers to the place of fighting
Subject(s): Fights;native Americans;native Americans - Wars;ojibwa Indians;survival; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


WAR SONG: 2, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "from the south they came, birds of war"
Last Line: Beyond the enemy's line
Subject(s): Native Americans;native Americans - Wars;ojibwa Indians; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


WAR WITH CHILE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: War with chile? Just as soon
Last Line: Let the godlike way be hers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Chile; South America; War


WASHYUMA MOTOR HOTEL, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the cement foundations
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's nothing that says you can't
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


WHERE THE GRIZZLY DWELLS, by JAMES FOX (20TH CENTURY)    Poem Text                    
First Line: I admire the artificial art of the east
Last Line: The indian land,— land of the golden west.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Cowboys; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Rocky Mountain Range; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


WIND SONG; OKLAHOMA ANNIVERSARY, APRIL 22, by ZOE AGNES STRATTON TILGHMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind of the prairie, sweeping adown from the hills
Last Line: "but these are they who have conquer'd and kept, the people of eighty-nine."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


WOLVERINE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes sir, it's quite a story though you won'r bwlieve it's true
Last Line: "I peered into the face—my god! 'twas poor old wolverine."
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Murder; Native Americans; Prejudice; Salvation; Trapping & Trappers; Wolves; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bias; Intolerance; Traps; Snares; Trappers


WORDS OF THE LAST INCA, by JOSE EUSEBIA CARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I come today to high pichincha's brow
Last Line: There will it lay its eggs and build its nest, %unknown and free!
Subject(s): Freedom; Incas; South America


YELLOW, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He wants to be an indian
Subject(s): Yellow (color); Native Americans; Race Awareness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


YONNONIDO, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A song, a poem of itself - the word itself a dirge
Last Line: Then blank and gone and still, and utterly lost.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


YOU CAN START THE POETRY NOW, OR: NEWS FROM CRAZY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I guess all I'm trying to say is I saw crazy horse die for
Last Line: Start the poetry!! Start the poetry now!!
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Irony; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America