Native Poetry in Canada

by Armstrong, Jeannette; Grauer, Lally; Grauer, Lalage

ISBN13: 9781551112008

ISBN10: 1551112000

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2001-06-01

Publisher(s): Broadview Pr

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Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology is the only collection of its kind. It brings together the poetry of many authors whose work has not previously been published in book form alongside that of critically-acclaimed poets, thus offering a record of Native cultural revival as it emerged through poetry from the 1960s to the present. The poets included here adapt English oratory and, above all, a sense of play. Native Poetry in Canada suggests both a history of struggle to be heard and the wealth of Native cultures in Canada today.

Four Decades: An Anthology of Canadian Native Poetry from 1960 to 2000
Tuning Up, Tuning In
A Note on the Text
A Lament for Confederation	p. 2
Words to a Grandchild	p. 3
If the legends fall silent	p. 7
Keep a few embers from the fire	p. 9
My people's memory reaches	p. 9
To a Native Teenager	p. 9
I have known you	p. 11
I am the Indian	p. 14
Your buildings	p. 14
Wen net ki'l/Who are you?	p. 15
When I was small	p. 15
Expect nothing else from me	p. 16
She spoke of paradise	p. 17
I Lost My Talk	p. 17
Demasduit	p. 18
The King and Queen Pass by on Train	p. 18
Indian Talk	p. 19
Migration Indian	p. 19
The Legend of Glooscap's Door	p. 20
Sune'wit at Kelly's Mountain	p. 21
A Course of Study in School	p. 22
Fishing and Treaty Rights	p. 22
Alcatraz	p. 25
When's the Last Boat to Alcatraz?	p. 26
Ochre Iron	p. 28
Bear	p. 30
Dawn	p. 32
Crazy Horse Monument	p. 33
Yellowjacket	p. 34
Sweet Corn	p. 35
Sandhills That None May Visit	p. 36
Crow's Flight	p. 38
Searching for Eagles	p. 38
Old Friends	p. 39
The Beaver	p. 42
The small drum	p. 43
My moccasins	p. 44
Tobacco Burns	p. 44
The Ballad of Norval Morriseau	p. 45
Her Name Is Helen	p. 48
Telling	p. 51
Honour Song	p. 56
Stillborn Night	p. 58
Granny Going	p. 64
Penumbra	p. 64
Moon Bear	p. 65
Bird Clan Mother	p. 65
Pretty Tough Skin Woman	p. 67
Trapper Mother	p. 68
Boobstretch	p. 68
Raced Out to Write This Up	p. 69
His Kitchen	p. 70
Coyote Columbus Cafe	p. 71
Tongue in Cheek, if not Tongue in Check	p. 76
Coyote Trail	p. 77
Bear Piss Water	p. 78
I Want to Dance Wild Indian Black Face	p. 79
An there is my people sleeping	p. 81
It's with terror, sometimes	p. 81
Little traces in my mind	p. 81
I was mixing stars and sand	p. 82
He goes away	p. 82
Seven men on the rock upon the house	p. 82
Like little hands	p. 83
Round Dance	p. 83
Heritage	p. 85
nite	p. 86
an opun letr tu bill bissett	p. 86
a kind of majik	p. 87
the eye of the raven	p. 87
moosonee in august	p. 88
Kirdland Lake, Sept. 21	p. 89
eight miles from Esten Lake	p. 90
in this village	p. 90
for donald marshall	p. 91
smoke nd thyme	p. 92
i'm not in charge of this ritual	p. 93
if i ever heard	p. 94
Spirit Warrior Raven: Dream Winter	p. 95
the apocalypse will begin	p. 96
replanting the heritage tree	p. 97
The Last Crackle	p. 98
Lost Children	p. 99
Dark Corners	p. 100
The Day Runs	p. 101
Ernie	p. 101
Creased Clinic	p. 102
Justice in Williams Lake	p. 104
In-Tee-Teigh (King Salmon)	p. 107
Death Mummer	p. 108
Wind Woman	p. 109
History Lesson	p. 110
Dark Forests	p. 112
Green	p. 113
Rocks	p. 114
World Renewal Song	p. 116
Reclaiming Earth	p. 117
Apples	p. 119
Right It	p. 120
Zen Indian	p. 122
Seven Songs for Uncle Louis	p. 123
Were You There	p. 131
Post-Oka Kinda Woman	p. 132
For All the Settlers Who Secretly Sing	p. 133
This Red Moon	p. 134
(a found poem)	p. 138
At Sunrise	p. 140
New Image	p. 141
He Fights	p. 145
In Katherine's House	p. 147
Incongruence	p. 150
Commitment	p. 150
The Beggar	p. 151
Nostalgia	p. 152
The Red In Winter	p. 152
"Progress"	p. 152
The Uniform of the Dispossessed	p. 153
My Hometown Northern Canada South Africa	p. 154
Long Way From Home	p. 159
Father	p. 165
Condolences for Marius	p. 165
Three Objects	p. 166
Kinanti: A Fragment	p. 167
Valley of the Believers	p. 167
Wordmaker	p. 168
Dancing the Rounds	p. 169
On Your Passage	p. 170
Tossing Around	p. 171
Yellow Leaves	p. 172
when the outside is completely dark	p. 174
eels	p. 174
in a letter from my brother, atlantis	p. 175
in/dian	p. 175
the mountains are real	p. 176
in memory of fred quilt	p. 177
her husband is a film maker	p. 178
For Menlo	p. 178
Linda Louise	p. 178
in the bath	p. 179
Father	p. 180
My Box of Letters	p. 182
War	p. 183
Performing	p. 184
Women	p. 185
Mister Mandela	p. 186
Leonard	p. 187
Razzleberries	p. 188
Autumn Rose	p. 188
Ta'ah	p. 189
Light	p. 191
Rubbie at Central Park	p. 194
Poor J. W.	p. 195
How He Served	p. 195
Death Bird	p. 196
I Don't Know This October Stranger	p. 197
my red face hurts	p. 200
Morning Awakening	p. 201
Blues Singer	p. 202
Betty	p. 203
back roads	p. 204
He Likes to Dance	p. 204
something you said	p. 205
born again indian	p. 206
searching for visions	p. 207
searching for visions II	p. 208
dreaming about the end of the world	p. 208
racing across the land	p. 209
yesterday's song	p. 209
the duke of windsor	p. 210
Song in the Light of Dawn	p. 212
A Song of Early Summer	p. 213
October	p. 214
The Sunbather's Fear of the Moon	p. 215
Twinkle	p. 216
Ballad from a Burned-Out House	p. 217
Of Course the Sky Does not Close	p. 217
Crow Out Early	p. 219
The Persistence of Songs	p. 219
The Letter	p. 220
The Line	p. 221
Offhand Song	p. 222
Could Raven Have White Feathers?	p. 223
Cowboy Pictures	p. 224
The Poetry Reading	p. 228
Can you hear me?	p. 229
Gleichen	p. 230
Story teller	p. 230
I am a Prophet	p. 231
Beaver Woman	p. 233
Empty Seas	p. 235
Departures	p. 236
Sentences: at the Culls'	p. 236
She is crying in a corner	p. 237
Unmarked Grave	p. 238
Pahkahkos	p. 240
Nohkom, Medicine Bear	p. 242
She Told Me	p. 243
Ukrainian Hour	p. 244
Eatin' Critters	p. 245
Picking Leftovers	p. 245
I'm So Sorry	p. 246
In Da Name of Da Fadder	p. 247
Der Poop	p. 248
These are the Body's Gifts	p. 249
from Blue Marrow	p. 249
The White Judges	p. 256
Helen Betty Osborne	p. 258
Blue Ribbon Children	p. 259
Let the Ponies Out	p. 259
Horse-Fly Blue	p. 260
Letter to Sir John A. Macdonald	p. 261
Circle the Wagons	p. 262
Leather and Naughahyde	p. 262
It Crosses My Mind	p. 263
Instructions to My Mother	p. 264
The Sky Is Promising	p. 265
Poem for Duncan Campbell Scott	p. 268
Some	p. 269
Poetry	p. 270
Surely Not Warriors	p. 271
Grey Owl, 1935	p. 271
Mirror	p. 274
I Heard Them, I Was There	p. 274
At Geronimo's Grave	p. 276
No Man's Land	p. 277
Bear	p. 278
Fish Tale	p. 279
Rockin' Chair Lady	p. 280
Wiles of Girlhood	p. 283
The Shard	p. 285
In My Dance Class	p. 286
Manitoba Pastoral	p. 287
Proud Belly	p. 288
Song About	p. 290
My Grass Cradle	p. 291
Like An Indian: Struggling With Ogres	p. 292
Migration	p. 294
Protection	p. 296
MidLife	p. 296
Beachhead Dreaming	p. 297
Ronnie, because they never told you why	p. 300
Communications class	p. 302
the revolution of not vanishing	p. 303
This is not a metapor	p. 304
Stones memory	p. 305
We remember	p. 306
i have become so many mountains	p. 306
dear walt	p. 307
the naming	p. 308
This was One of Them	p. 312
I Touched the Coyote's Tongue	p. 313
Someone	p. 314
Fort Langley	p. 314
One year	p. 315
Before me	p. 316
Feeding the hungry	p. 318
stray bullets (oka re/vision)	p. 321
my grandmothers	p. 322
poem without end #3	p. 323
my secret tongue and ears	p. 324
from turtle island to aotearoa	p. 326
partridge song	p. 329
frozen breath and knife blades	p. 330
hummingbirds	p. 331
night falling woman	p. 331
What a Way to Go	p. 334
God of the Fiddle Players	p. 335
Cycle (of the black lizard)	p. 335
Unhinged	p. 337
Pawacakinasis-pisim, December / The Frost Exploding Moon	p. 338
Peyak-Nikamowin / One Song	p. 339
T. For	p. 341
Not All Halfbreed Mothers	p. 343
True North, Blue Compass Heart	p. 344
I've Been Told	p. 346
my lodge	p. 349
ritual	p. 349
ghost dance	p. 350
an answer to why	p. 351
a reed of red willow	p. 351
Ayiki-pisim / the Frog Moon (April)	p. 352
Pawacakinasisi-pisim / The Frost-Exploding Moon (December)	p. 352
stone gathering	p. 352
deer-sleep	p. 353
Acknowledgements	p. 355
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