by Joy Harjo
Harlem, Montana: Just Off the Reservation 114
Hartshorne, Mary Cornelia 383
Hawai‘i ’89 210
HAWAIIANS EAT FISH 209
Hayoołkáałgo Sisnaajiní nihi neł’iih łeh. 312
Hear the Dogs Crying 237
He awoke this morning from a strange dream— 199
he lived in our basement and sacrificed my parents 349
He Mele Aloha no ka Niu 238
Henry, Gordon, Jr. 72
Henson, Lance 119
Here, the sentence will be respected. 149
Here, too, a great gold snake 408
Here is the wind bending the reeds westward, vii
He says 276
He’tohe he’konȯtse nataosee’ešėhae’eševe’ȯhtsemo’tanonėstse. 117
Hi everyone 245
High Ground 139
Hill, Roberta 46
Hills Brothers Coffee 311
History 92
History of Fire, The 390
Hoahwah, Sy 157
Hodeeyáádą́ą́ honishłǫ́ 318
Hoffman, Robert Davis 228
Hogan, Linda 387
Holt, John Dominis 189
Holy Ghost of You, the Space & Thin Air, The 260
Hope, Andrew, III 212
Hope, Elizabeth “Sister Goodwin” 221
Hope, Ishmael 252
House of five fires, you never raised me. 47
Housing Poem, The 218
How do you do? 77
Howe, LeAnne 394
How relentless, how impartial 28
How shall we adorn 108
How to make good baked salmon from the river 192
Hunter, Al 80
I am a citizen of two nations: Shawnee and American. I have one son who 93
I am a feather on the bright sky. 111
I am a young man, Fire. You 407
I Am Not a Witness 315
I am old, Sippokni sia. 376
I am standing outside 72
I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall 232
I am water, only because you are the ocean. 249
I camp in the light of the fox, 200
I climb the black rock mountain 294
I dance with 192
I don’t care if you’re married I still love you 79
I don’t know why I should be writing to you, 378
I don’t understand this kindergarten 83
I find an encyclopedia photo, 84
“If I threw you in the dike,” she says 84
If Nothing, the Land 343
If not thousands then millions of hours 343
I forgot to ask for the name 406
I found Coyote, Eagle, and Momoy 315
If the Indian Office is in existence for the best interest of the Indians, why 272
I have played with the skulls of seals 243
I heard the Indian agent say, 33
Images of Salmon and You 221
I’m looking on the mountain, 362
I’m mostly water. 163
I’m so tired of pretending 238
Inauguration Day 375
In a world long before this one, there was enough for everyone, 403
In Chimayo 220
In death of a man to be truly 19
Indian Eden. Open tooth. Bone Bruise. This town split in two. 352
Indian Education Blues 202
Indian Guys at the Bar 282
Indian Machismo or Skin to Skin 57
Indian Office 272
Indian Requiem, The 270
Indian Singing in 20th Century America 42
’inept’ ipéecwise cilaakt: 260
In Hā‘ena’s cerulean sky today 207
Inike—ekatai—waseyaki 53
In Memory of Jeff David 191
In the beginning I am 319
In the Longhouse, Oneida Museum 47
In the loose sand is thrown 270
In these rivers, on these lakes 49
In this place years ago 228
In wet darkness, I imagine opening 85
I ride those ridge backs 215
isdzán / woman haastiń / man 329
I see him 107
Ishki, Mother, Upon Leaving the Choctaw Homelands, 1831 396
I sit in your 202
I sit quietly 107
Issa hal-a-li haa- toko Ik-sa illok isha shkee 361
I stand at the portal and knock, 366
I stand upon my miracle hill, 285
I Still Eat All of My Meals with a Mussel Shell 330
I studied every ride on the midway— 411
I tend to mistake your ribs for a hand towel, 344
It had everything and nothing to do 256
I thought We could be related, Andy and I. We’re both 95
it is almost fitting 54
It is certain they land on me the thunderbirds across my existence 18
It is late, but outside the night is glowing with snow and streetlight, quiet 409
It is November and the sun has gone south almost 165
It is now almost daylight, 53
It is the day of leaving 387
It’s 24 years old. 41
It’s best made in dry-fish camp on a beach by a 192
It’s closing time. Violence is my boyfriend 400
It’s earthquake weather in California, 301
It Was the Animals 346
ivaghulluk ilagaata 185
I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move 133
Jacklight 131
Jacobs, Alex (Karoniaktahke) 57
Jim, Rex Lee 317
John, Hershman R. 326
Johnson, Emily Pauline (Tekahionwake) 25
John Whirlwind’s Doublebeat Songs, 1956 52
Jumper, Moses, Jr. 393
Ka ‘Ili Pau 189
Kalahele, Imaikalani 204
Kalākaua, King David 182
Kane, Joan 243
Ka ne huni 273
Ka ‘Ōlelo 240
Ka ‘Ōlelo has a lilting rhythm 241
Karoniaktahke 57
Kissing the Opelu 249
Ko‘olauloa 215
Kumulipo 262
Kumulipo Wā ‘ekahi 182
Laguna Ladies Luncheon 280
Landing 387
LaPena, Frank 275
learning to say i love you 166
Leave the dishes. 134
Leaving Tulsa 414
Lee, Lily 364
Lesson in Fire 293
Letter, A 378
Letters from an Island 245
Letter to Nanao Sakaki 192
Let us shake 37
Like poison oak or the Left Eye part in “Waterfalls” 351
Like the back of your hand, he said to me, 62
Like the sea urchin leaves, pimpling its shell 241
Lili‘uokalani, Queen 182
Lipe, John Gunter 366
List We Make, The 396
Literary Day Among the Birds 364
Littlebear, Richard 117
Livingston, Chip 407
Long Soldier, Layli 148
Long time ago 295
Long Time Ago 295
Look at my/her engraved chin 235
Look at the Redman’s burden 369
López, Casandra 338
Louis, Adrian C. 286
Louis, Bojan 342
Luis and Salvadore, the two Miwok guides for the 1848 Donner Party 396
Make Rope 204
Mammedaty saw to the building of this house. Just 109
Man from Washington, The 115
Man Hesitates but Life Urges 105
Mann, Lara 416
many of our grandmothers 392
Many times in my life I have heard the white sages, 383
Mapping the Land 62
Marshlands 25
Mary Rowlandson made it big in the colonial tabloids. Indian captivity 71
McCovey, Shaunna Oteka 330
McDougall, Brandy Nāl
ani 238
McMullin, Dan Taulapapa 222
McNickle, D’Arcy 105
McPherson, Michael 207
Measuring the Distance to Oklahoma 94
Medicare 381
Menwi—yakwatoni—beskonewiani. 52
Mesa Verde 317
Midge, Tiffany 145
milky way escapes my mouth, the 167
Million, Dian 218
Mind over Matter 379
Minnie had a house 218
Miracle Hill 285
Miranda, Deborah A. 315
Mitchell, Emerson Blackhorse 285
Momaday, N. Scott vii, 108
Montezuma, Carlos 271
Months afterwards, I see the electrical poles 164
Morgan, Phillip Carroll 391
Motion falls apart in silence, tumbling, as wind turns choreographed snow 74
Mountains so close we are relative. 112
My aunt gives me 226
My choice of all choice spots in Indian lands! 372
My country! ’tis to thee, 104
My father built a good fire 293
My Father’s Song 281
my favorite conversations are with my grandmother while she 166
My grandfather placed wood 216
My head is drawing closer to the bar again 282
My Industrial Work 30
My mother explains we are not legless 84
My mother is a fire beneath stone. 390
My Mother Returns to Calaboz 321
My mother used to say, “Bury me with a band,” 305
My old grandmother, Tekapay’cha 379
Mythology 216
My uncle is a small man. 311
My uncle’s eyes have long since fallen from the grasp of stars. Now, they are 75
My words are always 338
NAMȦHTA’SOOMȦHEVEME 117
Nanih Waiya Cave 416
Nationhood 93
Nature Poem 351
Ndé’ isdzán [“two of me”] 329
Nevaquaya, Joe Dale Tate 130
Never again I, 274
New Citizen, A 103
New Language, A 338
Niatum, Duane 199
Nibii-Wiiyawan Bawaadanan 67
Night Caller 147
Night is a sharkskin drum 214
Night Is a Sharkskin Drum 214
Nii’aa nindinendam—Oh I am thinking 22
99 things to do before you die 126
Noble Savage Sees a Therapist 395
NOBLE SAVAGE: She’s too intense for me. 395
No daylight for two months, an ice chisel slivers 248
Noel, Linda 292
No Fishing on the Point 235
No Parole Today 308
Northrup, Jim (Chibinesi) 40
northsun, nila 126
November Becomes the Sky with Suppers for the Dead 72
Now, as much as ever, and as always, 252
Now here, now there; 372
Now I am a citizen! 103
Now I harbor fugitive names. 71
Nunaqtigiit 244
Ocean Power 305
October 371
October is the month that seems 371
O’er Sequoyah’s lonely grave 363
Offering: First Rice 143
Oh, Give Me Back My Bended Bow 24
Oh, give me back my bended bow, 24
Ojanen, Carrie Ayaġaduk 253
O ke au i kahuli wela ka honua 182
okpik, dg nanouk 233
Old Man’s Lazy, The 33
Oliver, Louis Little Coon 379
Omen, The 109
On a footbridge 87
Once, when I came home 90
Once there were coyotes, cardinals 414
One Chip of Human Bone 54
On leaving my children John and Jane 22
O now you come in rut, 385
On the Long Island Indian 28
Ortiz, Simon 281
Osorio, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani 262
Our Bird Aegis 53
Our Blood Remembers 113
[our] nightmare : no 251
Pacheco, Steve 92
Paschen, Elise 137
Passion, Christy 236
Perez, Craig Santos 250
Perez-Wendt, Mahealani 208
Perkins, Leialoha 196
Pico, Tommy 351
Piksinñaq 221
pi-pokni lawah 391
Pitchlynn, Peter Perkins 361
Placed 155
Plantation Non-Song 196
Poem for Sonya Thunder Bull 130
Poem for the háawtnin’ & héwlekipx, A 260
Poet, The 384
Posey, Alexander 372
Potlatch Ducks 227
Powwow at the End of the World, The 232
Pratt, Stacy 408
Prayer Bowl 81
Prayer for Words vii
Prayer Song Asking for a Whale 185
Pre-Occupied 140
Prodigal Daughter 90
Proposal, A 407
Rabbit Is Up to Tricks 403
Rain Scald 345
Rattle 37
Real Bird, Henry 125
Real Indian Leans Against, The 44
Red Elk, Lois 113
Red Man’s America, The 104
Red Man’s Burden, The 369
Relic 413
Rendon, Marcie 55
Revilla, No‘u 258
Rexford, Cathy Tagnak 248
Rez Car 41
Riding the Earthboy 40 116
Riggs, Lynn 378
Right here is where I once suckled babies into Red people 396
River river river 140
Ross, Joshua 363
round dance of day has gone 119
Running 400
Saad 318
St. James Lake 87
Schoolcraft, Jane Johnston
(Bamewawage Zhikaquay)
20
Seattle, Chief 183
Sentenced 377
Sequoyah 363
Seven thousand feet up 399
seven woodland crows 31
Seven Woodland Crows 31
Sharp-Breasted Snake, The 380
Shaw, Evalyn Callahan 371
She Had Some Horses 401
She had some horses. 401
Shell shaking in the state of the coin toss and sorrowful walk. 94
Shrinking Away 40
Shuck, Kim 405
Sigo, Cedar 246
Silko, Leslie Marmon 293
Simplicity 394
Sippokni Sia 376
Sister— 145
Sitting Alone in Tulsa at 3 a.m. 119
Sixkiller, Samuel 373
Skeets, Jake 352
Skinology 286
Sleek, 227
Sleeping in the Rain 74
Small Secluded Valley, A 247
Smoker, M. L. 160
Smoke Screen 258
Sokoya, I said, looking through 188
Someone spoke his name, Mammedaty, in which 110
Sometimes I feel you around me, 201
Song Called “White Antelope’s Chant,” The 120
Song for Discharming 60
Song My Paddle Sings, The 26
Song of the Choctaw Girl 362
Sonnet for My Wrist 344
Spanish captive, Hoahwah, married twin sisters. 157
Speak English. Forget the language of your 51
Spirit Moves 201
Spirit of Brotherhood 212
Spring days 275
Stellar nucleosynthesis. 135
Stevens, James Thomas (Aronhiótas) 86
Stonewall to Standing Rock 340
Strong Male Rain, A 326
Summer of Black Widows, The 231
Sunlight was something more than that to him. 384
Sun Perch 409
Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question 77
Survived the war but 40
Sweet, Denise 60
Sweetgrass Is Around Her 63
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sp; Taitano, Lehua M. 245
TallMountain, Mary 187
Tamez, Margo 321
Tapahonso, Luci 309
Teeth in the Wrong Places 145
Tekahionwake 25
The air dances with wet sand off golden dunes. 326
The boy painted himself white and ran into the darkness. 73
The city’s neon embers 333
The cold white moon over houses too close together. Front windows, where 75
The cowboy and the farmer, in chaps and Sunday clothes, 375
The day the earth wept, a quiet wind covered the 113
The earth is salmon-colored here, cracked 317
The end came easy for most of us. 115
The enemy misled that missed the island in the fog, 244
The first harvest of wheat in flatlands 160
The fragmented jawbones 321
Theft Outright, The 143
The grains should be green as river rocks, 143
The hunters went out with guns 187
The imprint of birds’ feet 130
The mind bends over, in the light through a window, down and across 76
The mollusk inching toward my door, 147
The Muskogee’s hokpi— 380
The old woman dreams she is up north, on the reservation. It is autumn. 75
The one-room adobe skeleton sat on a hill overlooking a field that would not 220
The pine! The pine! I eager cried, 22
the pink neon lit window full of plaster of paris 44
there is always this sense: 213
There is no other bad than what I say’s bad 343
There Is No Word for Goodbye 188
There is this shifting, endless film 105
There was a ship 223
The room never moves for her. It is not like snow falling, like leaves falling, 77
These Rivers Remember 49
The small tunnel which the rabbit uses for escape and travel, 394
The spiders appeared suddenly 231
The sun has broken through. 161
The sunrise nearly finished 107
The time is almost here. 185
The waiting road 397
The water I used to drink spent time 405
The way it is now 210
The weight of ashes 68
The white man wants the Indian’s home, 368
The years in the blood keep us naked to the bone. 200
They have come, they have come, 377
They said, “You are no longer a lad.” 203
They sing Onward Christian Soldiers 212
Think of all the lost words, still unspoken, 240
Think of all the old words that have succumbed, 242
38 149
THIRTY-SECOND PARTS OF A HUMAN BEING 230
This is a give away poem 45
This Is How They Were Placed for Us 312
This is how we look over our shoulders. This is how we smile carefully in 71
this is the Blue Jean Nation speakin’, bro 57
This is the deepest part of the world. 159
This Is the Time of Grasshoppers and All That I See Is Dying 289
This is to say we continued. As though continuing changed us. 81
This mountain stands near us: mountaining, 333
Thompson, Earle 216