Contents
Preface xx
Introduction xxiv
Carter Revard 3
OSAGE, PONCA, IRISH, AND SCOTCH-IRISH
Poems:
Indians Demand Equal Time with God
People from the Stars Driving in Oklahoma
Statement on Energy Policy
Essay:
"Herbs of Healing: American Values in American Indian Literature"
Simon I. Ortiz 30
ACOMA PUEBLO
Poems:
Culture and the Universe
Survival This Way
A Story of How a Wall Stands
Our Eagerness Blooms
Essay:
from "Song/Poetry, and Language: Expression and Perception"
Diane Glancy 41
CHEROKEE
Poems:
The Bat House
Without Title
Buffalo Medicine
He Dressed Me for the Pretend Cold
Until the times of restitution - Acts 3:21
Essav and influence poem:
Federico Garcia Lorca's "From Here"
Ernestine Hayes 48
TLINGIT
Poems:
Shapeshifters
Land otter people
The Spoken Forest
Influence poem:
With Elegant Craft: Nora Marks Dauenhauer's "How to Make Good Baked
Salmon from the River"
Adrian C. Louis 57
LOVELOCK PAIUTE
Poems:
In Lieu of a Communion Wafer
Prairie Madness
Skinology
The Hermit's Diary
Magpie in Margaritaville
Essay:
Of Craft, Cub Scouts, Mayonnaise, and UFOs
Chrystos 67
MENOMINEE
Poems:
Sky Falls Away
Beauti Full Soft Black Tongues
She Had to Go
Palestinians & Indians Feel
I Still Have the Bullet
The Earth Where I Live
Essay:
War Piece Craft
Influencing poem:
Audre Lorde's "A Litany for Survival"
Linda Hogan 79
CHICKASAW
Poems:
Bones at the River
Creation
The Fingers, Writing About Myself
Lost in the Milky Way
What I Keep
Essay and influencing poems:
Poetry Is My First Language: Layli Long Soldier's "Whereas" and Craig Santos
Perez's "understory
Leslie Marmon Silko 91
LAGUNO PUEBLO
Poems:
Poem for Myself and Mei: Concerning Abortion
Love Poem
The Storyteller's Escape
When Sun Came to Riverwoman
Essay:
from Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective
Influencing poem:
Excerpt from a letter to James Wright, September 12, 1979, and James Wright's poem "Wherever Home Is"
Janice Gould 110
KOYANgK'AUWIMAIDU
Poems:
Indian Mascot, 1959
The Day of the Dead
Kim
A Poem
Poor in Spirit
Essay:
Influences
Influencing poem:
Gary Snyder's "Riprap"
Ray A. Young Bear 119
MESKWAKI
Poems:
To See as Far as the Grandfather World
Our Bird Aegis
John Whirlwind's Doublebeat Songs, 1956
Four Hinterland Abstractions
Essay:
"The Summer of 1969: Children of Speakthunder"
Influence poem:
James Welch's "In My Lifetime"
Joy Harjo 136
MVSKOKE
Poems:
The Woman Hanging From the Thirteenth Floor Window
A Postcolonial Tale
Eagle Poem
Essay:
from "One Song
LeAnne Howe 149
CHOCTAW
Poems:
Gatorland
Noble Savage Learns to Tweet
The Rope Speaks
Now I Lay Me Down
Apocrypha
Essay:
Inner Conflicts
Influence poem:
W. D. Snodgrass's "Eva Braun"
Luci Tapahonso 170
DINÉ
Poems:
Blue Horses Rush In The Motion of Songs Rising
It Has Always Been This Way
Daané é Diné
Essay:
From the Preface to Sáanii Dahataal: The Women Are Singing
Ruby Hansen Murray 179
OSAGE
Poems:
The Dark Mother
Nch'i-Wana
Rest Assured
Food Fight at Hanford, No Laughing Matter
The Little Osage Captive, Elias Cornelius, 1824
Essay:
Giving Voice to Place: Where You See Yourself
Influencing poem:
Carter Revard's "Wazhazhe Grandmother'
Louise Erdrich 188
TURTLE MOUNTAIN OJIBWE
Poems:
Dear John Wayne
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
Captivity
Windigo
Rez Litany
Essay:
Out of the Black Night
Influencing Poem:
Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art"
Gordon Henry Jr. 200
WHITE EARTH OJIBWE
Poems:
When Names Escaped Us
November Becomes the Sky with Suppers for the Dead
Jazz Tune for a Hiawatha Woman
Essay:
Let us be painting painting painter singing singing singer: On the verve of verbs
Kimberly Blaeser 208
ANISHINAABE
Poems:
Captivity
Apprenticed to Justice
Goodbye to All That
Fantasies of Women
Of Fractals and Pink Flowering
Essay:
"Air is Between These Words, Fanning the Flame": Poetry and Literary Inheritance Influence boem:
Linda Hogan's "Workday"
C. R. Resetarits 226
CHEROKEE-CREEK
Poems:
Elegy
Arroyo
Hovenweep
Essay:
Lost Tribes, Rain C. Goméz, and the Shadow Arts
Influence poem:
Rain C Goméz's "Mapping Shadow"
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke 234
HURON, METIS, LUSO, FRENCH CANADIAN, AND MIXED
SOUTHEASTERN NATIVE
Poems:
America, I Sing You Back Taxonomy
Radio Wave Mama
Streaming
Essay:
Beyond the Ballads
Influence poem:
Delmore Schwartz's "The Heavy Bear that Goes With Me"
Elise Paschen 259
OSAGE
Poems:
Oklahoma Home
Under the Dome
WI'-gi-e
My Mother Descends
Parents at Rest
Essay:
Straddling Two Worlds
Influence poem:
Joy Harjo's "She Had Some Horses"
Suzanne S. Rancourt 270
ABENAKI (BEAR CLAN) / HURON
Poems:
Fabric
Maccha
The Smell of Blood
Essay:
So Glad You Asked
Influence poem:
Ai's "Warrior"
Deborah A. Miranda 280
OHLONE-COSTANOAN ESSELEN / CHUMASH
Poems:
Juliana, 1803
Indian Cartography
Novena to Bad Indians
Erasurepoem
Tears of the Sun
Essay:
Looking for Ourselves in the Poetry of Others
Influence poem:
Wendy Rose's'
"Excavation at Santa Barbara Mission"
Heid E. Erdrich 298
TURTLE MOUNTAIN ONBWE
Poems:
Little Souvenirs from the DNA Trading Post
National Monuments
Kennewick Man Tells All
Guidelines for the Treatment of Sacred Objects
Pre-Occupied
Essay:
Real to Me
Influencing poem:
Kimberly Blaeser's "Rewriting Your Life"
Celia Bland 31I
CHEROKEE
Poems:
Car Crash
Cherokee Hogscape
Lost Highway
Essay:
Car Crashes, Shootings, and Ghosts Influence poem:
Natalie Díaz's "When My Brother Was an Aztec"
Margaret Noodin 319
ANISHINAABE
Poems:
Daanisag/ Daughters
Nayendamowin Mitigwaaking / Woodland Liberty
Apenimonodan / Trust
Essay:
Like Sedimentary Stone
Influence poem:
lane Joinston Schoolcrafis "On Leaving My Children John and Jane,intie
Atlantic States, and preparing to return to the interior"
Chip Livingston 327
MVSKOKE
Poems:
Stadium Mocs
Punta Del Este Pantoum
52 Hawks
Essay:
The Influence of Repetition in Chrystos's "Crazy Grandpa Whispers"
Esther G. Belin 335
DINÉ
Poems:
This Is What I Mean
______Child(ren) Left Behind
Public Record 1831
Ruby in Me #1
Blues-ing on the Brown Vibe
Essay:
Poem Making as Making Space
Influence poem:
Luci Tapahonso's "That American Flag"
dg nanouk okpik 349
INUPIAQ-INUIT
Poems:
Frightening Acid Flakes Haibun
Fossil Fuel Embers Haibun
Glacial Oil World
Man and the Little People
Influence poem:
Arthur Sze's "The Owl: Thoughts on Word Choice
Sammie Bordeaux-Seeger 355
SICANGU LAKOTA
Poems:
Blue Water
No Water
November
1900
Essay:
Finding Resonance in Roberta Hill's "Star Quilt"
Influence poem:
Roberta Hill's "Star Quilt"
Molly McGlennen 363
ANISHINAABE
Poems:
Three Poems for Ellia
Living the Language
Legend
Essay:
Preface to Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits
M. L. Smoker 369
ASSINIBOINE-SIOUx
Poems:
The Feed
Another Attempt at a Rescue
Letter to Richard Hugo
Mercy
Essay:
Hugo
Influence poem:
Richard Hugo's "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg”
Sherwin Bitsui 378
DINÉ
Poems:
Atlas
Apparition
Drought
Stepping through the drum's vibration
Essay:
from "The Motion of Poetic Landscape: An Interview with Sherwin Bitsui" by
Bianca Viñas
Cedar Sigo 388
SUQUAMISH
Poems:
First Love
The Material Field
The Studio
Essay:
Return to Grafitti Land
Influence poem:
John Trudell's "Rant and Roll"
Julian Talamantez Brolaski 397
MESCALERO AND LIPAN APACHE, LATIN@, EUROPEAN
Poems:
as the owl augurs in the cut
I had already shuttered an aspect of my vision
Jennifer Elise Forster 403
MVSKOKE
Poems:
From Coosa
Atlas
Leaving Tulsa
Essay:
The Spiral: Circling Closer
Influence poem:
Joy Harjo's "Speaking Tree"
Laura Da’ 416
EASTERN SHAWNEE
Poems:
Perspective
Eve Turned Crow
Leviathan
Essay and Influence poem:
On lames Thomas Stevens's "Tokinish"
Bojan Louis 426
DINÉ
Poems:
The Nature of Mortal Illness
If Nothing, the Land Breach
Essay:
"Between the Abyss and Here, Beauty"
Influence poem:
Lynda Hull's "Studies from Life"
Craig Santos Perez 439
CHAMORU
Poems:
Interwoven
Ode (Ending wich a Confession) to the First Mango I Ate on Guam after Decades Away
The Pacific Written Tradition
Essay and Influence poem:
On Writing from the New Oceania and Cecilia Catherine
Taitano Perez's "As I Turn the Pages"
Ishmael Angaluuk Hope 456
TLINGIT, IÑUPIAQ
Poems:
Canoe Launching into the Gaslit Sea
from Love Letter to the Future: A Book of the Land in Four Acts
Essay and Influence text:
"A Story of Turtle Island" told by Sequoyah Guess
Michaelsun Stonesweat Knapp 469
OHLONE (COSTANOAN-RUMSEN CARMEL BAND)
Poems:
Manwreck
At What Number Are Numbers No Good?
Essay and Influence texts:
On "At What Number Are Numbers No Good?" and Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages
Michael Wasson 477
NIMÍIPUU
Poems:
Aposiopesis [Or, the Field Between the Living & the Dead]
I Say After-Rain, You Say Hahalxpáawisa
Self-Portrait as 1879-1934
This Dusk in a Mouth Full of Prayer
Self-Portrait as Article I [r]. [Treaty With Nez Percés, 1855): Cession of Lands to the United States
Essay and Influence poem:
I Am To Carry This History, This Body: Eduardo C. Corral's "Our Comple-tion: Oil on Wood: Tino Rodriguez: 1999
Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley 494
ONONDAGA
Poems:
American Rust
just another horse poem
Run: 2nd Street Harrisburg PA Summertime 17
Essay:
Our Work Is Never Over
Influence poem:
Gail Tremblay's "Indian Singing in 20th Century America"
Orlando White 501
DINÉ OF THE NAANEESHT'ÉZHI TÁBAAHÍ AND BORN FOR THE NAAKAI DINÉ'E
Poems:
Analogy
Sentence
Writ
Unwritten
Whit
Essay:
from Interview with Orlando White, by Veronica Golos
Layli Long Soldier 509
OGLALA LAKOTA
Poems:
38
Excerpts from "Whereas Statements"
Essay:
from "Layli Long Soldier: interviewed by Kaveh Akbar"
Permissions 522
Acknowledgments 526