When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton anthology of Native nations poetry /
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Edition: | First Edition. |
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Imprint: | New York, N. Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020] |
Description: | xxiii, 458 pages ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
Subject: | American poetry -- Indian authors. Indians of North America -- Poetry. American poetry -- Indian authors. Indians of North America. Poetry. Poetry. Poetry. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12449361 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- Eleazar's elegy for Thomas Thacher / Eleazar, Unknown
- To the pine tree ; On leaving my children John and Jane at school, in the Atlantic states, and preparing to return to the interior / Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Ojibwe (Anishinaabe)
- Oh, give me back my bended bow / William Walker Jr., Wyandot
- Marshlands ; The song my paddle sings / Emily Pauline Johnson, Mohawk
- On the Long Island Indian / Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, Montaukett
- My industrial work / Anonymous Carlisle Student
- Seven woodland crows ; Family photograph ; Fat green flies / Gerald Vizenor, Anishinaabe-White Earth Nation
- The old man's lazy ; Rattle / Peter Blue Cloud, Mohawk
- Shrinking away ; Rez car / Jim Northrup, Anishinaabe-Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior
- Indian singing in 20th century America / Gail Tremblay, Onondaga, Mi'Kmaq
- The real Indian leans against ; Ceremony for completing a poetry reading / Chrystos, Menominee
- Dream of rebirth ; In the longhouse, Oneida Museum ; These rivers remember / Roberta Hill, Oneida
- Everything you need to know in life you'll learn in boarding school / Linda LeGarde Grover, Anishinaabe-Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe
- John Whirlwind's doublebeat songs, 1956 ; Our bird aegis ; One chip of human bone / Ray Young Bear, Meskwaki
- What's an Indian woman to do? / Marcie Rendon, Anishinabbe-White Earth Nation
- Indian machismo or skin to skin / Alex Jacobs, Akwesasne Mohawk
- Song for discharming ; Mapping the land / Denise Sweet, Anishinaabe-White Earth Nation
- Sweetgrass is around her / Salli M. Kawennotakie Benedict, Akwesasne Mohawk
- Dreams of water bodies ; Apprenticed to justice ; Captivity / Kimberly M. Blaeser, Anishinaabe-White Earth Nation
- November becomes the sky with suppers for the dead ; When names escaped us ; Sleeping in the rain / Gordon Henry Jr., Anishinababe-White Earth Nation
- Sure you can ask me a personal question ; Big fun / Diane Burns, Anishinaabe-Lac Courte Oreilles, Chemehuevi
- Prayer bowl / Al Hunter, Anishinaabe, Rainy River First Nations
- Chief Totopotamoi, 1654 ; Hard times / Karenne Wood, Monacan Nation
- Eel / Eric Gansworth, Onondaga
- Tonawanda swamps ; St. James Lake / James Thomas Stevens, Akwesasne Mohawk
- Prodigal daughter / Kimberly Wensaut, Potawatomi
- History / Steve Pacheco, Mdewakanton Dakota
- Nationhood ; Measuring the distance to Oklahoma / Laura Daʼ, Eastern Shawnee
- When I was in Las Vegas and saw a Warhol painting of Geronimo / B: William Bearhart, Anishinaabe-St. Croix
- Plains and mountains. Placed with our power / by Heid E. Erdrich
- A new citizen / Elsie Fuller, Omaha
- The Red Man's America / Zitkála-S̆á (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), Yankton Dakota
- Man hesitates but life urges / D'Arcy McNickle, Métis, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
- At dawn, sitting at my father's house / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Crow Creek Sioux
- Angle of geese ; The gourd dancer ; The delight song of Tsoai-Talee / N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa
- Frog Creek circle / Victor Charlo, Bitterroot Salish, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
- Our blood remembers / Lois Red Elk, Isanti, Hunkpapa
- Harlem, Montana : just off the reservation ; The man from Washington ; Riding the earthboy 40 / James Welch, Gros Ventre, Blackfeet
- NAMȦHTÁSOOMȦHEVEME ; We are the spirits of these bones / Richard Littlebear, Northern Cheyenne
- Sitting alone in Tulsa at 3 A.M. ; Anniversary poem for Cheyennes who died at Sand Creek / Lance Henson, Southern Cheyenne
- The song called "White antelope's chant" / Suzan Shown Harjo, Southern Cheyenne, Hodulgee Muscogee
- Diablo Canyon / John Trudell, Santee Dakota
- Thought / Henry Real Bird, Crow
- 99 things to do before you die ; cooking class / Nila NorthSun, Shoshone, Anishanaabe
- Poem for Sonya Thunder Bull / Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya, Yuchi, Comanche
- Jacklight ; I was sleeping where the black oaks move ; Advice to myself / Louise Erdrich, Anishinaabe-Turtle Mountian Band
- Wicanĥpi Heciya Tanhan Unhipi (We come from the stars) / Gwen Nell Westerman, Dakota, Cherokee
- Burn ; Battlefield / Mark Turcotte, Anishinaabe-Turtle Mountain Band
- Wi'-Gi-E ; High ground / Elise Paschen, Osage
- Pre-occupied ; Offering : first rice ; The theft outright / Heid E. Erdrich, Anishinaabe-Turtle Mountain Band
- Teeth in the wrong places ; Night caller / Tiffany Midge, Standing Rock Sioux
- 38 ; Dilate / Layli Long Soldier, Oglala Lakota
- Family tree or Comanches and cars don't mix ; Typhoni / Sy Hoahwah, Yapaituka Comanche, Southern Arapaho
- Crosscurrent ; Casualties / M.L. Smoker, Assiniboine and Sioux
- Ghost River ; Blizzard, South Dakota / Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Minneconjou Lakota
- Blonde / Heather Cahoon, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
- learning to say i love you ; the milky way escapes my mouth / Tanaya Winder, Duckwater Shoshone, Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute
- Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Pacific Islands. Poetry of the Pacific Northwest : the arc of the edifice / by Cedar Sigo
- Poetry of Alaska / by Diane Lʼx̲eiś Benson
- Poetry of the Pacific / by Brandy Nālani McDougall
- Kumulipo Wāʻekahi
- Excerpts from a speech by Chief Seattle, 1854 / Chief Seattle, Suquamish, Duwamish
- Prayer song asking for a whale / Lincoln Blassi, St. Lawrence Island Yupʹik
- Good grease ; There is no word for goodbye / Mary TallMountain, Koyukon
- KaʻIli Pau / John Dominis Holt, Kanaka Maoli
- In memory of Jeff David ; Letter to Nanao Sakaki ; How to make good baked salmon from the river / Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Tlingit
- Plantation non-song / Leialoha Perkins, Kanaka Maoli
- Forgotten coyote stories / Vince Wannassay, Umatilla
- Chief Leschi of the Nisqually ; Center Moon's little brother ; The art of clay / Duane Niatum, Lkallum
- Spirit moves / Fred Bigjim, Iñupiaq
- Indian education blues / Ed Edmo, Shoshone-Bannock
- Battle won is lost / Phillip William George, Nez Perce
- Make rope / Imaikalani Kalahele, Kanaka Maoli
- Clouds, trees & ocean, North Kauai / Michael McPherson, Kanaka Maoli
- Uluhaimalama / Mahealani Perez-Wendt, Kanaka Maoli
- Hawaiians eat fish / Wayne Kaumualii Westlake, Kanaka Maoli
- Hawaiʻi '89 / Dana Naone Hall, Kanaka Maoli
- Spirit of brotherhood / Andrew Hope III, Tlingit
- An agony of place ; Night is a sharkskin drum ; Koʻolauloa / Haunani-Kay Trask, Kanaka Maoli
- Mythology / Earle Thompson, Yakima
- The housing poem / Dian Million, Tanana Athabascan
- In chimayo ; Images of salmon and you / Gloria Bird, Spokane
- Piksinñaq / Elizabeth "Sister Goodwin" Hope, Iñupiaq
- The doors of the sea / Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Samoan
- Charlene / Joe Balaz, Kanaka Maoli
- Ax̲ Tl'aa ; Potlatch ducks ; Grief's anguish / Diane L'x̲eis' Benson, Tlingit
- At the door of the native studies director / Robert Davis Hoffman, Tlingit
- Weaving ; Translation of blood quantum / Elizabeth Woody, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
- The summer of black widows ; The powwow at the end of the world / Sherman Alexie, Spokane
- The fate of Inupiaq-like kingfisher ; No fishing on the point / DG Nanouk Okpik, Iñupiaq
- Hear the dogs crying / Christy Passion, Kanaka Maoli
- He mele aloha no ka niu ; Ka ʻOlelo / Brandy Nãlani McDougall, Kanaka Maoli
- Variations on an admonition ; Nunaqtigiit / Joan Kane, Iñupiaq
- Letters from an island / Lehua M. Taitano, CHamoru
- A small secluded valley ; After self-help / Cedar Sigo, Suquamish
- The ecology of subsistence / Cathy Tagnak Rexford, Iñupiaq
- Kissing the opelu / Donavan Kūhiō Colleps, Kanaka Maoli
- ginen the micronesian kingfisher (i sibek) / Craig Santos Perez, CHamoru
- Canoe launching into the gaslit sea / Ishmael Hope, Tlingit, Iñupiaq
- Fifth saint, sixth & seventh / Carrie Ayaġaduk Ajanen, Iñupiaq
- Anatomy of a wave / Abigail Chabitnoy, Koniag, Tangirnaq
- Smoke screen / Noʻu Revilla, Kanaka Maoli, Tahitian
- A poem for the háawtnin' & héwlekipx [The holy ghost of you, the space & thin air] / Michael Wasson, Nimíipuu, Nez Perce
- Kumulipo / Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Kanaka Maoli
- Southwest and west. "I'm here to make a poem" / by Deborah A. Miranda
- The Indian requiem / Arsenius Chaleco, Yuma
- Indian office / Carlos Montezuma, Yavapai-Apache
- Yaqui deer song / Don Jesús Yoilo'i, Yaqui
- The universe sings / Frank LaPena, Nomtipom Wintu
- The dolphin walking stick / Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez, Chumash, Tohono O'Odham, Pima
- Laguna ladies luncheon / Paula Gunn Allen, Laguna
- My father's song ; Indian guys at the bar ; Selection from From Sand Creek / Simon Ortiz, Acoma
- Miracle hill / Emerson BlackHorse Mitchell, Diné
- Skinology ; This is the time of grasshoppers and all that I see is dying / Adrian C. Louis, Lovelock Paiute
- Lesson in fire / Linda Noel, Koyongk'awi Maidu
- Where mountain lion lay down with deer ; Long time ago / Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna
- Earthquake weather / Janice Gould, Koyongk'awi Maidu
- The wall / Anita Endrezze, Yaqui
- Bury me wiith a band ; Ocean power / Ofelia Zepeda, Tohono O'Odham
- When the moon died ; No parole today / Laura Tohe, Diné
- Blue horses rush in ; Hills Brothers coffee ; This is how they were placed for us / Luci Tapahonso, Diné
- I am not a witness ; mesa Verde / Deborah A. Miranda, Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen
- Saad / Rex Lee Jim, Diné
- My mother returns to Calaboz / Margo Tamez, Lipan Apache
- Assignment 44 ; First woman / Esther G. Belin, Diné
- A stong male rain / Hershman R. John, Diné
- Ndé'isdzán ["two of me"] / Crisosto Apache, Miscalero Apache, Chricahua Apache, Diné
- I still eat all of my meals with a mussel shell / Shaunna Oteka McCovey, Yurok, Karuk
- from Flood song ; from Dissolve ; The caravan / Sherwin Bitwui, Diné
- To see letters ; Empty set / Orlando White, Diné
- A new language / Casandra López, Cahuilla/Tongva/Luiseño
- Stonewall to Standing Rock / Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Mescalero and Lipan Apache
- If nothing, the land / bojan Louis, Diné
- Sonnet for my wrist ; Rain scald / Tacey M. Atsitty, Diné
- It was the animals ; When my brother was an Aztec / Natalie Diaz, Mojave/Gila River
- from Nature poem / Tommy Pico, Kumeyaay
- Drunktown / Jake Skeets, Diné
- Southeast. Renewal / by Jennifer elise Foerster
- Evening song 93 / Choctaw
- Song fo the Choctaw girl / Peter Perkins Pitchlynn, Choctaw
- Sequoyah, Joshua Ross, Cherokee
- Literary day among the birds / Lily Lee, Cherokee
- To Miss Vic / John Gunter Lipe, Cherokee
- The white man wants the Indian's home / James Harris Guy, Chickasaw
- The red man's burden / J.C. Duncan, Cherokee
- October / Evalyn Callahan Shaw, Mvskoke
- To a hummingbird ; Tulledega ; To allot, or not to allot / Alexander Pose, Mvskoke
- To class '95 / Samuel Sixkiller, Cherokee
- Inauguration day / Stella LeFlore Carter, Chickasaw
- Sippokni Sia / Winnie Lewis Gravitt, Choctaw
- Sentenced / Ruth Margaret Muskrat Bronson, Cherokee
- A letter / Lynn Riggs, Cherokee
- Mind over matter ; The sharp-breasted snake ; Medicare / Louis Little Coon Oliver, Mvskoke
- Fallen leaves ; The poet / Mary Cornelia Hartshorne, Choctaw
- To frighten a storm : Combing / Gladys Cardiff, Eastern Band Cherokee
- Landing ; Blessings ; The history of fire / Linda Hogan, Chickasaw
- Anumpa Bok Lukfi Hilha (Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek) / Phillip Carroll Morgan, Choctaw, Chickasaw
- Simplicity / Moses Jumper Jr., Seminole
- Noble savage sees a therapist ; Ishki, mother, upon leaving the Choctaw homelands, 1831 ; The list we make / LeAnne Howe, Choctaw
- Running, She had some horses ; Rabbit is up to tricks / Joy Harjo, Mvskoke
- Water as a sense of place / Kim Shuck, Cherokee
- A proposal / Chip Livingston, Mvskoke
- Trespassing / Marianne Aweagon Broyles, Cherokee
- A Creek woman beside Lake Ontario / Stacy Pratt, Mvskoke
- Sun perch ; The carnival / Santee Frazier, Cherokee
- Relic ; Leaving Tulsa / Jennifer Elise Foerster, Mvskoke
- Nanih Waiya Cave / Lara Mann, Choctaw
- Outroduction / by LeAnne Howe.