Native American Songs and Poems
eBook - ePub

Native American Songs and Poems

An Anthology

  1. 64 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Native American Songs and Poems

An Anthology

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Introductory Note
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Song for Bringing a Child into the World
  6. Song for the Dying
  7. He-Hea Katzina Song
  8. Hymn of the Horse
  9. Deer Song
  10. Song from the Mountain Chant
  11. Song of the Earth
  12. Yaqui Song
  13. Quail Song
  14. Bear Song
  15. Havasupai Medicine Song
  16. Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs
  17. Paiute Ghost Dance Song
  18. LuiseƱo Songs of the Seasons
  19. Six Dream Songs
  20. Two Newe Songs
  21. Song
  22. Cradle Song
  23. In the Valley
  24. She Will Gather Roses3
  25. Utitia’q’s Song
  26. Dance Song
  27. Old Song of the Musk Ox People
  28. Delight in Nature
  29. Ptarmigan
  30. How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
  31. Grandmother
  32. Two Heart Clan
  33. Inside Osage
  34. Anza Borrego, 1995
  35. Ride the Turtle’s Back
  36. Geese Flying over a Prison Sweat Lodge
  37. The Owl
  38. This Blessing
  39. Cedar Swamp
  40. Eagle Poem
  41. lines from a pariah notebook
  42. Naming the Animals
  43. The Origins of Corn
  44. In the Cornfield
  45. Sky Woman
  46. This Is No Movie of Noble Savages
  47. Evening Near the Hoko River
  48. Stones Speak of the Earthless Sky
  49. After Lightning
  50. Skins as Old Testament
  51. What the Eagle Fan Says
  52. Durable Breath
  53. To Those Who Matter
  54. ā€œTradition from Insideā€
  55. References