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- English
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About this book
In this carefully chosen collection, encompassing traditional songs and contemporary Native American poetry, readers will find a treasury of lyrics verse composed by Seminole, Hopi, Navajo, Pima, Havasupai, Arapaho, Paiute, Nootka, and other Indian writers and poets.
Selections range from the beautiful, traditional Seminole "Song for Bringing a Child into the World" to the cynical, knowing "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel." Permeated by the Indian's deep awareness and appreciation of nature's beauty and rhythms, these poems deal with themes of tradition and continuity, the Indians' place in contemporary society, love, loss, memory, alienation, and many other topics.
Taken together, these poems offer an intimate, revealing record of the Native American response to the world, from time-honored chants and songs to the musings of urban Indian poets coming to grips with twentieth-century America.
Selections range from the beautiful, traditional Seminole "Song for Bringing a Child into the World" to the cynical, knowing "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel." Permeated by the Indian's deep awareness and appreciation of nature's beauty and rhythms, these poems deal with themes of tradition and continuity, the Indians' place in contemporary society, love, loss, memory, alienation, and many other topics.
Taken together, these poems offer an intimate, revealing record of the Native American response to the world, from time-honored chants and songs to the musings of urban Indian poets coming to grips with twentieth-century America.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Introductory Note
- Table of Contents
- Song for Bringing a Child into the World
- Song for the Dying
- He-Hea Katzina Song
- Hymn of the Horse
- Deer Song
- Song from the Mountain Chant
- Song of the Earth
- Yaqui Song
- Quail Song
- Bear Song
- Havasupai Medicine Song
- Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs
- Paiute Ghost Dance Song
- LuiseƱo Songs of the Seasons
- Six Dream Songs
- Two Newe Songs
- Song
- Cradle Song
- In the Valley
- She Will Gather Roses3
- Utitiaāqās Song
- Dance Song
- Old Song of the Musk Ox People
- Delight in Nature
- Ptarmigan
- How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
- Grandmother
- Two Heart Clan
- Inside Osage
- Anza Borrego, 1995
- Ride the Turtleās Back
- Geese Flying over a Prison Sweat Lodge
- The Owl
- This Blessing
- Cedar Swamp
- Eagle Poem
- lines from a pariah notebook
- Naming the Animals
- The Origins of Corn
- In the Cornfield
- Sky Woman
- This Is No Movie of Noble Savages
- Evening Near the Hoko River
- Stones Speak of the Earthless Sky
- After Lightning
- Skins as Old Testament
- What the Eagle Fan Says
- Durable Breath
- To Those Who Matter
- āTradition from Insideā
- References