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A Blessing by N. Scott Momaday
Introduction by Joy Harjo
Northeast and Midwest
Writing a Poetry of Continuance by Kimberly M. Blaeser
Anishinaabeg Dream Song
The Water Birds Will Alight
1678 // Eleazar // (unknown)
Eleazar’s Elegy for Thomas Thacher
1800 // Jane Johnston Schoolcraft // Ojibwe (Anishinaabe)
To the Pine Tree
On leaving my children John and Jane at school, in the Atlantic states, and preparing to return to the interior
1800 // William Walker Jr. // Wyandot
Oh, Give Me Back My Bended Bow
1861 // Emily Pauline Johnson // Mohawk
Marshlands
The Song My Paddle Sings
1869 // Olivia Ward Bush-Banks // Montaukett
On the Long Island Indian
1913 // Anonymous Carlisle Student
My Industrial Work
1934 // Gerald Vizenor // Anishinaabe–White Earth Nation
Seven Woodland Crows
Family Photograph
Fat Green Flies
1935 // Peter Blue Cloud // Mohawk
The Old Man’s Lazy
Rattle
1943 // Jim Northrup // Anishinaabe–Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior
Shrinking Away
Rez Car
1945 // Gail Tremblay // Onondaga // Mi’Kmaq
Indian Singing in 20th Century America
1946 // Chrystos // Menominee
The Real Indian Leans Against
Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading
1947 // Roberta Hill // Oneida
Dream of Rebirth
In the Longhouse, Oneida Museum
These Rivers Remember
1950 // Linda LeGarde Grover // Anishinaabe–Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe
Everything You Need to Know in Life You’ll Learn in Boarding School
1950 // Ray Young Bear // Meskwaki
John Whirlwind’s Doublebeat Songs, 1956
Our Bird Aegis
One Chip of Human Bone
1952 // Marcie Rendon // Anishinaabe–White Earth Nation
What’s an Indian Woman to Do?
1953 // Alex Jacobs // Akwesasne Mohawk
Indian Machismo or Skin to Skin
1953 // Denise Sweet // Anishinaabe–White Earth Nation
Song for Discharming
Mapping the Land
1954 // Salli M. Kawennotakie Benedict // Akwesasne Mohawk
Sweetgrass Is Around Her
1955 // Kimberly M. Blaeser // Anishinaabe–White Earth Nation
Dreams of Water Bodies
Apprenticed to Justice
Captivity
1955 // Gordon Henry Jr. // Anishinaabe–White Earth Nation
November Becomes the Sky with Suppers for the Dead
When Names Escaped Us
Sleeping in the Rain
1957 // Diane Burns // Anishinaabe–Lac Courte Oreilles // Chemehuevi
Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question
Big Fun
1958 // Al Hunter // Anishinaabe // Rainy River First Nations
Prayer Bowl
1960 // Karenne Wood // Monacan Nation
Chief Totopotamoi, 1654
Hard Times
1965 // Eric Gansworth // Onondaga
Eel
1966 // James Thomas Stevens // Akwesasne Mohawk
Tonawanda Swamps
St. James Lake
1971 // Kimberly Wensaut // Potawatomi
Prodigal Daughter
1975 // Steve Pacheco // Mdewakanton Dakota
History
1979 // Laura Da’ // Eastern Shawnee
Nationhood
Measuring the Distance to Oklahoma
1979 // b: william bearhart // Anishinaabe–St. Croix
When I Was in Las Vegas and Saw a Warhol Painting of Geronimo
Plains and Mountains
Placed with Our Power by Heid E. Erdrich
1870 // Elsie Fuller // Omaha
A New Citizen
1876 // Zitkála-Šá (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) // Yankton Dakota
The Red Man’s America
1904 // D’Arcy McNickle // Métis // Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
Man Hesitates but Life Urges
1930 // Elizabeth Cook-Lynn // Crow Creek Sioux
At Dawn, Sitting at My Father’s House
1934 // N. Scott Momaday // Kiowa
Angle of Geese
The Gourd Dancer
The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee
1937 // Victor Charlo // Bitterroot Salish // Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
Frog Creek Circle
1940 // Lois Red Elk // Isanti // Hunkpapa // Ihanktonwa
Our Blood Remembers
1940 // James Welch // Gros Ventre // Blackfeet
Harlem, Montana: Just Off the Reservation
The Man from Washington
Riding the Earthboy 40
1941/ Richard Littlebear // Northern Cheyenne
NAMȦHTA’SOOMȦHEVEME We Are the Spirits of these Bones
1944 // Lance Henson // Southern Cheyenne
Sitting Alone in Tulsa at 3 A.M.
Anniversary Poem for Cheyennes Who Died at Sand Creek
1945 // Suzan Shown Harjo // Southern Cheyenne // Hodulgee Muscogee
The Song Called “White Antelope’s Chant”
1946 // John Trudell // Santee Dakota
Diablo Canyon
1948 // Henry Real Bird // Crow
Thought
1951 // nila northSun // Shoshone // Anishinaabe
99 things to do before you die
cooking class
1954 // Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya // Yuchi // Comanche
Poem for Sonya Thunder Bull
1954 // Louise Erdrich // Anishinaabe–Turtle Mountain Band
Jacklight
I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move
Advice to Myself
1957 // Gwen Nell Westerman // Dakota // Cherokee
Wicaŋĥpi Heciya Taŋhaŋ Uŋhipi (We Come from the Stars)
1958 // Mark Turcotte // Anishinaabe–Turtle Mountain Band
Burn
Battlefield
1959 // Elise Paschen // Osage
Wi’-Gi-E
High Ground
1963 // Heid E. Erdrich // Anishinaabe–Turtle Mountain Band
Pre-Occupied
Offering: First Rice
The Theft Outright
1965 // Tiffany Midge // Standing Rock Sioux
Teeth in the Wrong Places
Night Caller
1973 // Layli Long Soldier // Oglala Lakota
38
Dilate
1973 // Sy Hoahwah // Yapaituka Comanche // Southern Arapaho
Family Tree or Comanches and Cars Don’t Mix
Typhoni
1975 // M. L. Smoker // Assiniboine and Sioux
Crosscurrent
Casualties
1976 // Trevino L. Brings Plenty // Minneconjou Lakota
Ghost River
Blizzard, South Dakota
1976 // Heather Cahoon // Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
Blonde
1985 // Tanaya Winder // Duckwater Shoshone // Southern Ute // Pyramid Lake Paiute
learning to say i love you
the milky way escapes my mouth
Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Pacific Islands
Poetry of the Pacific Northwest: The Arc of the Edifice by Cedar Sigo
Poetry of Alaska by Diane L’xeis´ Benson
Poetry of the Pacific by Brandy Nālani McDougall
Kumulipo Wā ‘ekahi
1786 // Chief Seattle // Suquamish // Duwamish
Excerpts from a Speech by Chief Seattle, 1854
1892 // Lincoln Blassi // St. Lawrence Island Yup´ik
Prayer Song Asking for a Whale
1918 // Mary TallMountain // Koyukon
Good Grease
There Is No Word for Goodbye
1919 // John Dominis Holt // Kanaka Maoli
Ka ‘Ili Pau
1927 // Nora Marks Dauenhauer // Tlingit
In Memory of Jeff David
Letter to Nanao Sakaki
How to make good baked salmon from the river
1930 // Leialoha Perkins // Kanaka Maoli
Plantation Non-Song
1936 // Vince Wannassay // Umatilla
Forgotten Coyote Stories
1938 // Duane Niatum // Klallum
Chief Leschi of the Nisqually
Center Moon’s Little Brother
The Art of Clay
1941 // Fred Bigjim // Iñupiaq
Spirit Moves
1946 // Ed Edmo // Shoshone-Bannock
Indian Education Blues
1946 // Phillip William George // Nez Perce
Battle Won Is Lost
1946 // Imaikalani Kalahele // Kanaka Maoli
Make Rope
1947 // Michael McPherson // Kanaka Maoli
Clouds, Trees & Ocean, North Kauai
1947 // Mahealani Perez-Wendt // Kanaka Maoli
Uluhaimalama
1947 // Wayne Kaumualii Westlake // Kanaka Maoli
Hawaiians Eat Fish
1949 // Dana Naone Hall // Kanaka Maoli
Hawai‘i ’89
1949 // Andrew Hope III // Tlingit
Spirit of Brotherhood
1949 // Haunani-Kay Trask // Kanaka Maoli
An Agony of Place
Night Is a Sharkskin Drum
Ko‘olauloa
1950 // Earle Thompson // Yakima
Mythology
1950 // Dian Million // Tanana Athabascan
The Housing Poem
1951 // Gloria Bird // Spokane
In Chimayo
Images of Salmon and You
1951 // Elizabeth “Sister Goodwin” Hope // Iñupiaq
Piksinñaq
1953 // Dan Taulapapa McMullin // Samoan
The Doors of the Sea
1953 // Joe Balaz // Kanaka Maoli
Charlene
1954 // Diane L’xeis´ Benson // Tlingit
Ax Tl’aa
Potlatch Ducks
Grief’s Anguish
1955 // Robert Davis Hoffman // Tlingit
At the Door of the Native Studies Director
1959 // Elizabeth Woody // Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
Weaving
Translation of Blood Quantum
1966 // Sherman Alexie // Spokane
The Summer of Black Widows
The Powwow at the End of the World
1968 // dg nanouk okpik // Iñupiaq
The Fate of Inupiaq-like Kingfisher
No Fishing on the Point
1974 // Christy Passion // Kanaka Maoli
Hear the Dogs Crying
1976 // Brandy Nālani McDougall // Kanaka Maoli
He Mele Aloha no ka Niu
Ka ‘Ōlelo
1977 // Joan Kane // Iñupiaq
Variations on an Admonition
Nunaqtigiit
1978 // Lehua M. Taitano // CHamoru
Letters from an Island
1978 // Cedar Sigo // Suquamish
A Small Secluded Valley
After Self-Help
1978 // Cathy Tagnak Rexford // Iñupiaq
The Ecology of Subsistence
1978 // Donovan Kūhiō Colleps // Kanaka Maoli
Kissing the Opelu
1980 // Craig Santos Perez // CHamoru
ginen the micronesian kingfisher (i sihek)
1981 // Ishmael Hope // Tlingit // Iñupiaq
Canoe Launching into the Gaslit Sea
1983 // Carrie Ayaġaduk Ojanen // Iñupiaq
Fifth Saint, Sixth & Seventh
1987 // Abigail Chabitnoy // Koniag // Tangirnaq
Anatomy of a Wave
1987 // Noʻu Revilla // Kanaka Maoli // Tahitian
Smoke Screen
1990 // Michael Wasson // Nimíipuu, Nez Perce
A Poem for the háawtnin’ & héwlekipx [The Holy Ghost of You, the Space & Thin Air]
1991 // Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio // Kanaka Maoli
Kumulipo
Southwest and West
“I’m here to make a poem” by Deborah A. Miranda
1889 // Arsenius Chaleco // Yuma
The Indian Requiem
1866 // Carlos Montezuma // Yavapai–Apache
Indian Office
1904 // Don Jesús Yoilo’i // Yaqui
Yaqui Deer Song
1937 // Frank LaPena // Nomtipom Wintu
The Universe Sings
1939 // Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez // Chumash // Tohono O’odham // Pima
The Dolphin Walking Stick
1939 // Paula Gunn Allen // Laguna
Laguna Ladies Luncheon
1941 // Simon Ortiz // Acoma
My Father’s Song
Indian Guys at the Bar
Selection from From Sand Creek
1945 // Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell // Diné
Miracle Hill
1946 // Adrian C. Louis // Lovelock Paiute
Skinology
This Is the Time of Grasshoppers and All That I See Is Dying
1947 // Linda Noel // Koyongk’awi Maidu
Lesson in Fire
1948 // Leslie Marmon Silko // Laguna
Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer
Long Time Ago
1949 // Janice Gould // Koyongk’awi Maidu
Earthquake Weather
1952 // Anita Endrezze // Yaqui
The Wall
1952 // Ofelia Zepeda // Tohono O’odham
Bury Me with a Band
Ocean Power
1952 // Laura Tohe // Diné
When the Moon Died
No Parole Today
1953 // Luci Tapahonso // Diné
Blue Horses Rush In
Hills Brothers Coffee
This Is How They Were Placed for Us
1961 // Deborah A. Miranda // Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen // Chumash
I Am Not a Witness
Mesa Verde
1962 // Rex Lee Jim // Diné
Saad
1962 // Margo Tamez // Lipan Apache
My Mother Returns to Calaboz
1968 // Esther G. Belin // Diné
Assignment 44
First Woman
1970 // Hershman R. John // Diné
A Strong Male Rain
1972 // Crisosto Apache // Mescalero Apache // Chiricahua Apache // Diné
Ndé’isdzán [“two of me”]
1972 // Shaunna Oteka McCovey // Yurok // Karuk
I Still Eat All of My Meals with a Mussel Shell
1975 // Sherwin Bitsui // Diné
from Flood Song
from Dissolve
The Caravan
1976 // Orlando White // Diné
To See Letters
Empty Set
1978 // Casandra López // Cahuilla/Tongva/Luiseño
A New Language
1978 // Julian Talamantez Brolaski // Mescalero and Lipan Apache
Stonewall to Standing Rock
1981 // Bojan Louis // Diné
If Nothing, the Land
1982 // Tacey M. Atsitty // Diné
Sonnet for My Wrist
Rain Scald
1982 // Natalie Diaz // Mojave/Gila River
It Was the Animals
When My Brother Was an Aztec
1984 // Tommy Pico // Kumeyaay
from Nature Poem
1991 // Jake Skeets // Diné
Drunktown
Southeast
Renewal by Jennifer Elise Foerster
Evening Song 93
1806 // Peter Perkins Pitchlynn // Choctaw
Song of the Choctaw Girl
1833 // Joshua Ross // Cherokee
Sequoyah
unknown // Lily Lee // Cherokee
Literary Day Among the Birds
1844 // John Gunter Lipe // Cherokee
To Miss Vic
unknown // James Harris Guy // Chickasaw
The White Man Wants the Indian’s Home
1860 // J. C. Duncan // Cherokee
The Red Man’s Burden
1861 // Evalyn Callahan Shaw // Mvskoke
October
1873 // Alexander Posey // Mvskoke
To A Hummingbird
Tulledega
To Allot, or Not to Allot
1877 // Samuel Sixkiller // Cherokee
To Class ’95
1892 // Stella LeFlore Carter // Chickasaw
Inauguration Day
1895 // Winnie Lewis Gravitt // Choctaw
Sippokni Sia
1897 // Ruth Margaret Muskrat Bronson // Cherokee
Sentenced
1899 // Lynn Riggs // Cherokee
A Letter
1904 // Louis Little Coon Oliver // Mvskoke
Mind over Matter
The Sharp-Breasted Snake
Medicare
1910 // Mary Cornelia Hartshorne // Choctaw
Fallen Leaves
The Poet
1942 // Gladys Cardiff // Eastern Band Cherokee
To Frighten a Storm
Combing
1947 // Linda Hogan // Chickasaw
Landing
Blessings
The History of Fire
1948 // Phillip Carroll Morgan // Choctaw // Chickasaw
Anumpa Bok Lukfi Hilha (Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek)
1950 // Moses Jumper Jr. // Seminole
Simplicity
1951 // LeAnne Howe // Choctaw
Noble Savage Sees a Therapist
Ishki, Mother, Upon Leaving the Choctaw Homelands, 1831
The List We Make
1951 // Joy Harjo // Mvskoke
Running
She Had Some Horses
Rabbit Is Up to Tricks
1966 // Kim Shuck // Cherokee
Water as a Sense of Place
1967 // Chip Livingston // Mvskoke
A Proposal
1970 // Marianne Aweagon Broyles // Cherokee
Trespassing
1975 // Stacy Pratt // Mvskoke
A Creek Woman Beside Lake Ontario
1978 // Santee Frazier // Cherokee
Sun Perch
The Carnival
1979 // Jennifer Elise Foerster // Mvskoke
Relic
Leaving Tulsa
1983 // Lara Mann // Choctaw
Nanih Waiya Cave
Outroduction by LeAnne Howe
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index
Praise for When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
Also By Joy Harjo
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