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Subject: NATIVE AMERICANS - GENEALOGY & HERITAGE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COMING BACK, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC    Poem Text                    
First Line: When they woke me
Last Line: Move in dance to a distant drum
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage


COYOTE'S DISCOURSE ON POWER, MEDICINE, AND WOULD-BE SHAMANS, by PETER BLUE CLOUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good evening, friends. You notice this long, straight branch I'm
Last Line: Money, it will be a very happy basket. %thank you
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Creation; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Speech


FOR THIEVES ONLY, by LOIS RED ELK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't tell me
Last Line: I'll show you what you never learned
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage


GENEALOGY, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was not raised in the traditional way, and you can ask what right have I
Last Line: When I wake in the morning, having been there in the night
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage


HAUNTING FULL BLOOD, by SUZANNE RANCOURT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh. Indian woman that sold butter
Last Line: Where my grandmothers bathed %and the rocks are that smooth
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage


HIDES, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can't say I'm of the bear clan or the elk people
Last Line: If only through the imagination in your own head
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage


I AM OF THE REHOUSE CLAN, by MAZZI/REX LEE JIM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I am from the household of hastin ohodiiteel
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage


INDIAN SOLILOQUY, by HORTENSE SMITH MACDOUGALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: They cling to me, those ancient memories
Last Line: Great father guides me where I ought to go.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage


INDIANS, by ROXY GORDON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hank williams was an indian
Last Line: Living is indian, %expecting to live forever ain't
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage


MID-AMERICA PRAYER, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing again / within and among all things
Last Line: Strength, vision, unity and continuance
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Togetherness


OREGON HOLLY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: As holly tells of feudal days
Last Line: Has both their charms together.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Oregon; Patriotism; West (u.s.) - Exploration


RATIONAL, by HELEN CHALAKEE BURGESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She don't look indian all the time
Last Line: Grandma passed %... Again, twin nods
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage


REFLECTION, by MARK TURCOTTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Back when I used to be an indian
Last Line: A long, black bird bursts %from my throat
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage


REMEMBER, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember the sky that you were born under
Last Line: Remember.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage


TIGUA ELDER, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How do I tell my children
Last Line: There is forgetting in my own true name
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage


TO MY COAST SALISH ANCESTORS, by DUANE NIATUM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the late evening, rain and fog
Last Line: I am of this coast and its keeper
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage


TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts; Writer's Conferences And Workshops


TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter
Last Line: I will take that ancestral one
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women