“I write from a continuous space of erasure. Poetry was the one way that I was able to hold onto…my history, geography, and language.” — Craig Santos Perez, contributor
In this groundbreaking anthology of Indigenous poetry and prose, Native poems, stories, and essays are informed with a knowledge of both what has been lost and what is being restored. It offers a diverse collection of stories told by Indigenous writers about themselves, their histories, and their present. It is a celebration of culture and the possibilities of language.
Featuring forty-four poets, including Ishmael Hope, Bojan Louis, Ruby Murray, Simon Ortiz, Leslie Marmon Silko, Luci Tapahonso, Joy Harjo, dg okpik, Sherwin Bitsui, Heid E. Erdrich, Layli Long Soldier, and Orlando White.
Original influence essays by Diane Glancy on Lorca, Chrystos on Audre Lorde, Louise Erdrich on Elizabeth Bishop, LeAnne Howe on W. D. Snodgrass, Allison Hedge Coke on Delmore Schwartz, Suzanne Rancourt on Ai, and M. L. Smoker on Richard Hugo, among others.
And, a selection of resonant work chosen from previous generations of Native artists.
“There really is no better anthology out there that collects indigenous poets publishing from 1960 to the present.” — Dean Rader, co-editor
In this groundbreaking anthology of Indigenous poetry and prose, Native poems, stories, and essays are informed with a knowledge of both what has been lost and what is being restored. It offers a diverse collection of stories told by Indigenous writers about themselves, their histories, and their present. It is a celebration of culture and the possibilities of language.
Featuring forty-four poets, including Ishmael Hope, Bojan Louis, Ruby Murray, Simon Ortiz, Leslie Marmon Silko, Luci Tapahonso, Joy Harjo, dg okpik, Sherwin Bitsui, Heid E. Erdrich, Layli Long Soldier, and Orlando White.
Original influence essays by Diane Glancy on Lorca, Chrystos on Audre Lorde, Louise Erdrich on Elizabeth Bishop, LeAnne Howe on W. D. Snodgrass, Allison Hedge Coke on Delmore Schwartz, Suzanne Rancourt on Ai, and M. L. Smoker on Richard Hugo, among others.
And, a selection of resonant work chosen from previous generations of Native artists.
“There really is no better anthology out there that collects indigenous poets publishing from 1960 to the present.” — Dean Rader, co-editor
Table of Contents
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
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