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 --
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 with 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 strong 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 of 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.