Native American Songs and Poems: An Anthology

Wonderful collection of authentic traditional songs and contemporary Indian verse composed by Seminole, Hopi, Navajo, Pima, Arapaho, Paiute, Nootka, other Indian writers and poets. Topics include nature's beauty and rhythms, themes of tradition and continuity, the Indian in contemporary society, much more.

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.

Songs and contemporary verse by Seminole, Hopi, Arapaho, Nootka, others.

Rich selection of traditional songs and contemporary verse by Seminole, Hopi, Arapaho, Nootka, other Indian writers and poets. Nature, tradition, Indians' role in contemporary society, other topics.

Song for Bringing a Child into the World

Song for the Dying

He-Hea Katzina Song

Hymn of the Horse

Deer Song

Song from the mountain Chant

Song of the Earth

Yaqui Song

Quail Song

Bear Song

Havasupai Medicine Song

Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs

Paiute Ghost Dance Song

Luiseño Song of the Seasons

Six Dream Songs

I. You and I Shall Go

II. Minnow and Flowers

III. Sleep

IV. Dandelion Puffs

V. There Above

VI. Strange Flowers

Two Newe Songs

Song

Cradle Song

In the Valley

She Will Gather Roses

Utitia'q's Song

Dance Song

Old Song of the Musk Ox People

Delight in Nature

Ptarmigan

How to Write the Great American Indian Novel

Grandmother

Two Heart Clan

Inside Osage

"Anza Borrego, 1995"

Ride the Turtle's Back

Geese Flying Over a Prison Sweat Lodge

The Owl

This Blessing

Cedar Swamp

Eagle Poem

lines from a pariah notebook

Naming the Animals

The Origins of Corn

In the Cornfield

Sky Woman

This is No Movie of Noble Savages

Evening Near the Hoko River

Stones Speak of the Earthless Sky

After the Lightning

Skins as Old Testament

What the Eagle Fan Says

Durable Breath

To Those Who Matter

"Tradition from Inside"