When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

Title
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
		1678 // Eleazar // (unknown)
			Eleazar’s Elegy for Thomas Thacher
		1800 // Jane Johnston Schoolcraft // Ojibwe (Anishinaabe)
			To the Pine Tree
			On leaving my children John and Jane at school, in the Atlantic states, and preparing to return to the interior
		1800 // William Walker Jr. // Wyandot
			Oh, Give Me Back My Bended Bow
		1861 // Emily Pauline Johnson // Mohawk
			Marshlands
			The Song My Paddle Sings
		1869 // Olivia Ward Bush-Banks // Montaukett
			On the Long Island Indian
		1913 // Anonymous Carlisle Student
			My Industrial Work
		1934 // Gerald Vizenor // Anishinaabe–White Earth Nation
			Seven Woodland Crows
			Family Photograph
			Fat Green Flies
		1935 // Peter Blue Cloud // Mohawk
			The Old Man’s Lazy
			Rattle
		1943 // Jim Northrup // Anishinaabe–Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior
			Shrinking Away
			Rez Car
		1945 // Gail Tremblay // Onondaga // Mi’Kmaq
			Indian Singing in 20th Century America
		1946 // Chrystos // Menominee
			The Real Indian Leans Against
			Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading
		1947 // Roberta Hill // Oneida
			Dream of Rebirth
			In the Longhouse, Oneida Museum
			These Rivers Remember
		1950 // Linda LeGarde Grover // Anishinaabe–Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe
			Everything You Need to Know in Life You’ll Learn in Boarding School
		1950 // Ray Young Bear // Meskwaki
			John Whirlwind’s Doublebeat Songs, 1956
			Our Bird Aegis
			One Chip of Human Bone
		1952 // Marcie Rendon // Anishinaabe–White Earth Nation
			What’s an Indian Woman to Do?
		1953 // Alex Jacobs // Akwesasne Mohawk
			Indian Machismo or Skin to Skin
		1953 // Denise Sweet // Anishinaabe–White Earth Nation
			Song for Discharming
			Mapping the Land
		1954 // Salli M. Kawennotakie Benedict // Akwesasne Mohawk
			Sweetgrass Is Around Her
		1955 // Kimberly M. Blaeser // Anishinaabe–White Earth Nation
			Dreams of Water Bodies
			Apprenticed to Justice
			Captivity
		1955 // Gordon Henry Jr. // Anishinaabe–White Earth Nation
			November Becomes the Sky with Suppers for the Dead
			When Names Escaped Us
			Sleeping in the Rain
		1957 // Diane Burns // Anishinaabe–Lac Courte Oreilles // Chemehuevi
			Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question
			Big Fun
		1958 // Al Hunter // Anishinaabe // Rainy River First Nations
			Prayer Bowl
		1960 // Karenne Wood // Monacan Nation
			Chief Totopotamoi, 1654
			Hard Times
		1965 // Eric Gansworth // Onondaga
			Eel
		1966 // James Thomas Stevens // Akwesasne Mohawk
			Tonawanda Swamps
			St. James Lake
		1971 // Kimberly Wensaut // Potawatomi
			Prodigal Daughter
		1975 // Steve Pacheco // Mdewakanton Dakota
			History
		1979 // Laura Da’ // Eastern Shawnee
			Nationhood
			Measuring the Distance to Oklahoma
		1979 // b: william bearhart // Anishinaabe–St. Croix
			When I Was in Las Vegas and Saw a Warhol Painting of Geronimo
Plains and Mountains
	Placed with Our Power by Heid E. Erdrich
		1870 // Elsie Fuller // Omaha
			A New Citizen
		1876 // Zitkála-Šá (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) // Yankton Dakota
			The Red Man’s America
		1904 // D’Arcy McNickle // Métis // Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
			Man Hesitates but Life Urges
		1930 // Elizabeth Cook-Lynn // Crow Creek Sioux
			At Dawn, Sitting at My Father’s House
		1934 // N. Scott Momaday // Kiowa
			Angle of Geese
			The Gourd Dancer
			The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee
		1937 // Victor Charlo // Bitterroot Salish // Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
			Frog Creek Circle
		1940 // Lois Red Elk // Isanti // Hunkpapa // Ihanktonwa
			Our Blood Remembers
		1940 // James Welch // Gros Ventre // Blackfeet
			Harlem, Montana: Just Off the Reservation
			The Man from Washington
			Riding the Earthboy 40
		1941/ Richard Littlebear // Northern Cheyenne
			NAMȦHTA’SOOMȦHEVEME We Are the Spirits of these Bones
		1944 // Lance Henson // Southern Cheyenne
			Sitting Alone in Tulsa at 3 A.M.
			Anniversary Poem for Cheyennes Who Died at Sand Creek
		1945 // Suzan Shown Harjo // Southern Cheyenne // Hodulgee Muscogee
			The Song Called “White Antelope’s Chant”
		1946 // John Trudell // Santee Dakota
			Diablo Canyon
		1948 // Henry Real Bird // Crow
			Thought
		1951 // nila northSun // Shoshone // Anishinaabe
			99 things to do before you die
			cooking class
		1954 // Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya // Yuchi // Comanche
			Poem for Sonya Thunder Bull
		1954 // Louise Erdrich // Anishinaabe–Turtle Mountain Band
			Jacklight
			I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move
			Advice to Myself
		1957 // Gwen Nell Westerman // Dakota // Cherokee
			Wicaŋĥpi Heciya Taŋhaŋ Uŋhipi (We Come from the Stars)
		1958 // Mark Turcotte // Anishinaabe–Turtle Mountain Band
			Burn
			Battlefield
		1959 // Elise Paschen // Osage
			Wi’-Gi-E
			High Ground
		1963 // Heid E. Erdrich // Anishinaabe–Turtle Mountain Band
			Pre-Occupied
			Offering: First Rice
			The Theft Outright
		1965 // Tiffany Midge // Standing Rock Sioux
			Teeth in the Wrong Places
			Night Caller
		1973 // Layli Long Soldier // Oglala Lakota
			38
			Dilate
		1973 // Sy Hoahwah // Yapaituka Comanche // Southern Arapaho
			Family Tree or Comanches and Cars Don’t Mix
			Typhoni
		1975 // M. L. Smoker // Assiniboine and Sioux
			Crosscurrent
			Casualties
		1976 // Trevino L. Brings Plenty // Minneconjou Lakota
			Ghost River
			Blizzard, South Dakota
		1976 // Heather Cahoon // Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
			Blonde
		1985 // Tanaya Winder // Duckwater Shoshone // Southern Ute // Pyramid Lake Paiute
			learning to say i love you
			the milky way escapes my mouth
Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Pacific Islands
	Poetry of the Pacific Northwest: The Arc of the Edifice by Cedar Sigo
	Poetry of Alaska by Diane L’xeis´ Benson
	Poetry of the Pacific by Brandy Nālani McDougall
		Kumulipo Wā ‘ekahi
		1786 // Chief Seattle // Suquamish // Duwamish
			Excerpts from a Speech by Chief Seattle, 1854
		1892 // Lincoln Blassi // St. Lawrence Island Yup´ik
			Prayer Song Asking for a Whale
		1918 // Mary TallMountain // Koyukon
			Good Grease
			There Is No Word for Goodbye
		1919 // John Dominis Holt // Kanaka Maoli
			Ka ‘Ili Pau
		1927 // Nora Marks Dauenhauer // Tlingit
			In Memory of Jeff David
			Letter to Nanao Sakaki
			How to make good baked salmon from the river
		1930 // Leialoha Perkins // Kanaka Maoli
			Plantation Non-Song
		1936 // Vince Wannassay // Umatilla
			Forgotten Coyote Stories
		1938 // Duane Niatum // Klallum
			Chief Leschi of the Nisqually
			Center Moon’s Little Brother
			The Art of Clay
		1941 // Fred Bigjim // Iñupiaq
			Spirit Moves
		1946 // Ed Edmo // Shoshone-Bannock
			Indian Education Blues
		1946 // Phillip William George // Nez Perce
			Battle Won Is Lost
		1946 // Imaikalani Kalahele // Kanaka Maoli
			Make Rope
		1947 // Michael McPherson // Kanaka Maoli
			Clouds, Trees & Ocean, North Kauai
		1947 // Mahealani Perez-Wendt // Kanaka Maoli
			Uluhaimalama
		1947 // Wayne Kaumualii Westlake // Kanaka Maoli
			Hawaiians Eat Fish
		1949 // Dana Naone Hall // Kanaka Maoli
			Hawai‘i ’89
		1949 // Andrew Hope III // Tlingit
			Spirit of Brotherhood
		1949 // Haunani-Kay Trask // Kanaka Maoli
			An Agony of Place
			Night Is a Sharkskin Drum
			Ko‘olauloa
		1950 // Earle Thompson // Yakima
			Mythology
		1950 // Dian Million // Tanana Athabascan
			The Housing Poem
		1951 // Gloria Bird // Spokane
			In Chimayo
			Images of Salmon and You
		1951 // Elizabeth “Sister Goodwin” Hope // Iñupiaq
			Piksinñaq
		1953 // Dan Taulapapa McMullin // Samoan
			The Doors of the Sea
		1953 // Joe Balaz // Kanaka Maoli
			Charlene
		1954 // Diane L’xeis´ Benson // Tlingit
			Ax Tl’aa
			Potlatch Ducks
			Grief’s Anguish
		1955 // Robert Davis Hoffman // Tlingit
			At the Door of the Native Studies Director
		1959 // Elizabeth Woody // Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
			Weaving
			Translation of Blood Quantum
		1966 // Sherman Alexie // Spokane
			The Summer of Black Widows
			The Powwow at the End of the World
		1968 // dg nanouk okpik // Iñupiaq
			The Fate of Inupiaq-like Kingfisher
			No Fishing on the Point
		1974 // Christy Passion // Kanaka Maoli
			Hear the Dogs Crying
		1976 // Brandy Nālani McDougall // Kanaka Maoli
			He Mele Aloha no ka Niu
			Ka ‘Ōlelo
		1977 // Joan Kane // Iñupiaq
			Variations on an Admonition
			Nunaqtigiit
		1978 // Lehua M. Taitano // CHamoru
			Letters from an Island
		1978 // Cedar Sigo // Suquamish
			A Small Secluded Valley
			After Self-Help
		1978 // Cathy Tagnak Rexford // Iñupiaq
			The Ecology of Subsistence
		1978 // Donovan Kūhiō Colleps // Kanaka Maoli
			Kissing the Opelu
		1980 // Craig Santos Perez // CHamoru
			ginen the micronesian kingfisher (i sihek)
		1981 // Ishmael Hope // Tlingit // Iñupiaq
			Canoe Launching into the Gaslit Sea
		1983 // Carrie Ayaġaduk Ojanen // Iñupiaq
			Fifth Saint, Sixth & Seventh
		1987 // Abigail Chabitnoy // Koniag // Tangirnaq
			Anatomy of a Wave
		1987 // Noʻu Revilla // Kanaka Maoli // Tahitian
			Smoke Screen
		1990 // Michael Wasson // Nimíipuu, Nez Perce
			A Poem for the háawtnin’ & héwlekipx [The Holy Ghost of You, the Space & Thin Air]
		1991 // Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio // Kanaka Maoli
			Kumulipo
Southwest and West
	“I’m here to make a poem” by Deborah A. Miranda
		1889 // Arsenius Chaleco // Yuma
			The Indian Requiem
		1866 // Carlos Montezuma // Yavapai–Apache
			Indian Office
		1904 // Don Jesús Yoilo’i // Yaqui
			Yaqui Deer Song
		1937 // Frank LaPena // Nomtipom Wintu
			The Universe Sings
		1939 // Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez // Chumash // Tohono O’odham // Pima
			The Dolphin Walking Stick
		1939 // Paula Gunn Allen // Laguna
			Laguna Ladies Luncheon
		1941 // Simon Ortiz // Acoma
			My Father’s Song
			Indian Guys at the Bar
			Selection from From Sand Creek
		1945 // Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell // Diné
			Miracle Hill
		1946 // Adrian C. Louis // Lovelock Paiute
			Skinology
			This Is the Time of Grasshoppers and All That I See Is Dying
		1947 // Linda Noel // Koyongk’awi Maidu
			Lesson in Fire
		1948 // Leslie Marmon Silko // Laguna
			Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer
			Long Time Ago
		1949 // Janice Gould // Koyongk’awi Maidu
			Earthquake Weather
		1952 // Anita Endrezze // Yaqui
			The Wall
		1952 // Ofelia Zepeda // Tohono O’odham
			Bury Me with a Band
			Ocean Power
		1952 // Laura Tohe // Diné
			When the Moon Died
			No Parole Today
		1953 // Luci Tapahonso // Diné
			Blue Horses Rush In
			Hills Brothers Coffee
			This Is How They Were Placed for Us
		1961 // Deborah A. Miranda // Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen // Chumash
			I Am Not a Witness
			Mesa Verde
		1962 // Rex Lee Jim // Diné
			Saad
		1962 // Margo Tamez // Lipan Apache
			My Mother Returns to Calaboz
		1968 // Esther G. Belin // Diné
			Assignment 44
			First Woman
		1970 // Hershman R. John // Diné
			A Strong Male Rain
		1972 // Crisosto Apache // Mescalero Apache // Chiricahua Apache // Diné
			Ndé’isdzán [“two of me”]
		1972 // Shaunna Oteka McCovey // Yurok // Karuk
			I Still Eat All of My Meals with a Mussel Shell
		1975 // Sherwin Bitsui // Diné
			from Flood Song
			from Dissolve
			The Caravan
		1976 // Orlando White // Diné
			To See Letters
			Empty Set
		1978 // Casandra López // Cahuilla/Tongva/Luiseño
			A New Language
		1978 // Julian Talamantez Brolaski // Mescalero and Lipan Apache
			Stonewall to Standing Rock
		1981 // Bojan Louis // Diné
			If Nothing, the Land
		1982 // Tacey M. Atsitty // Diné
			Sonnet for My Wrist
			Rain Scald
		1982 // Natalie Diaz // Mojave/Gila River
			It Was the Animals
			When My Brother Was an Aztec
		1984 // Tommy Pico // Kumeyaay
			from Nature Poem
		1991 // Jake Skeets // Diné
			Drunktown
Southeast
	Renewal by Jennifer Elise Foerster
		Evening Song 93
		1806 // Peter Perkins Pitchlynn // Choctaw
			Song of the Choctaw Girl
		1833 // Joshua Ross // Cherokee
			Sequoyah
		unknown // Lily Lee // Cherokee
			Literary Day Among the Birds
		1844 // John Gunter Lipe // Cherokee
			To Miss Vic
		unknown // James Harris Guy // Chickasaw
			The White Man Wants the Indian’s Home
		1860 // J. C. Duncan // Cherokee
			The Red Man’s Burden
		1861 // Evalyn Callahan Shaw // Mvskoke
			October
		1873 // Alexander Posey // Mvskoke
			To A Hummingbird
			Tulledega
			To Allot, or Not to Allot
		1877 // Samuel Sixkiller // Cherokee
			To Class ’95
		1892 // Stella LeFlore Carter // Chickasaw
			Inauguration Day
		1895 // Winnie Lewis Gravitt // Choctaw
			Sippokni Sia
		1897 // Ruth Margaret Muskrat Bronson // Cherokee
			Sentenced
		1899 // Lynn Riggs // Cherokee
			A Letter
		1904 // Louis Little Coon Oliver // Mvskoke
			Mind over Matter
			The Sharp-Breasted Snake
			Medicare
		1910 // Mary Cornelia Hartshorne // Choctaw
			Fallen Leaves
			The Poet
		1942 // Gladys Cardiff // Eastern Band Cherokee
			To Frighten a Storm
			Combing
		1947 // Linda Hogan // Chickasaw
			Landing
			Blessings
			The History of Fire
		1948 // Phillip Carroll Morgan // Choctaw // Chickasaw
			Anumpa Bok Lukfi Hilha (Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek)
		1950 // Moses Jumper Jr. // Seminole
			Simplicity
		1951 // LeAnne Howe // Choctaw
			Noble Savage Sees a Therapist
			Ishki, Mother, Upon Leaving the Choctaw Homelands, 1831
			The List We Make
		1951 // Joy Harjo // Mvskoke
			Running
			She Had Some Horses
			Rabbit Is Up to Tricks
		1966 // Kim Shuck // Cherokee
			Water as a Sense of Place
		1967 // Chip Livingston // Mvskoke
			A Proposal
		1970 // Marianne Aweagon Broyles // Cherokee
			Trespassing
		1975 // Stacy Pratt // Mvskoke
			A Creek Woman Beside Lake Ontario
		1978 // Santee Frazier // Cherokee
			Sun Perch
			The Carnival
		1979 // Jennifer Elise Foerster // Mvskoke
			Relic
			Leaving Tulsa
		1983 // Lara Mann // Choctaw
			Nanih Waiya Cave
Outroduction by LeAnne Howe
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index
Praise for When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
Also By Joy Harjo
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