Voices of the Rainbow

by Rosen, Kenneth; Gorman, R. C.; Yava, Aaron

• ISBN13: 9781559702249
• ISBN10: 1559702249
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-09-01
• Publisher: Arcade Pub

Summary

A collection of two hundred poems by twenty-one native Americans--including Laguna, Sioux, Cheyenne, Pueblo, Chippewa, Oneida, Seneca/Seminole, Mohawk, and Blackfoot--features the work of Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Lance Henson, and Ray A. Young Bear. Reprint.

Table of Contents

Preface	xvii
Roberta Hill (Wisconsin Oneida)
Winter Burn	1	(2)
Blue Mountain	3	(1)
Steps	4	(1)
Swamp	5	(1)
E Uni Que A The Hi A Tho, Father	5	(1)
Seal at Stinson Beach	6	(2)
Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo)
Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer	8	(1)
When Sun Came to Riverwoman	9	(2)
Love Poem	11	(1)
Poem for Myself and Mei: Abortion	12	(1)
Deer Song	13	(1)
Toe'Osh: A Laguna Coyote Story	14	(3)
Alaskan Mountain Poem #I	17	(1)
Poem for Ben Barney	18	(1)
Four Mountain Wolves	19	(2)
Slim Man Canyon	21	(1)
Prayer to the Pacific	22	(1)
Indian Song: Survival	23	(3)
In Cold Storm Light	26	(1)
Sun Children	26	(2)
Hawk and Snake	28	(1)
The Time We Climbed Snake Mountain	29	(1)
Horses at Valley Store	29	(1)
Preparations	30	(1)
Gerald Vizenor (Minnesota Chippewa)
Indians at the Guthrie	31	(1)
Tribal Stumps	32	(1)
Unhappy Diary Days	32	(1)
February Park	33	(1)
Tropisms on John Berryman	34	(1)
Tyranny of Moths	35	(1)
Thumbing Old Magazines	36	(1)
Family Photograph	37	(2)
Haiku	39	(3)
North to Milwaukee	42	(1)
Raising the Flag	42	(1)
Seven Woodland Crows	43	(1)
Anishinabe Grandmothers	44	(2)
Janet Campbell Hale (Coeur d'Alene)
Salad La Raza	46	(1)
On a Catholic Childhood	47	(2)
Desmet, Idaho, March 1969	49	(1)
Getting Started	50	(1)
Cinque	51	(1)
Aaron Nicholas, Almost Ten	52	(1)
Six Feet Under	52	(1)
On Death and Love	53	(1)
Custer Lives in Humbolt County	54	(2)
Lance Henson (Cheyenne)
Flock	56	(1)
Warrior Nation Trilogy	56	(2)
Among Hawks	58	(1)
Travels with the Band-Aid Army	58	(1)
Sundown at Darlington 1878	59	(1)
Old Man Told Me	59	(1)
Wood Floor Dreams	60	(1)
Moth	61	(1)
Sleep Watch	61	(1)
Scattered Leaves	62	(2)
Between Rivers and Seas	64	(1)
Curtain	64	(1)
Comanche Ghost Dance	65	(1)
We Are a People	65	(1)
Other	66	(1)
Rain	66	(1)
Crazy Horse	67	(1)
Epitaph: Snake River	67	(1)
Bay Poem	68	(1)
Sitting Alone in Tulsa Three A.M.	69	(1)
Image of City	69	(1)
Old Story	70	(1)
Anniversary Poem for the Cheyennes	70	(1)
Poem for Carroll Descendant of Chiefs	71	(1)
Anna Walters (Pawnee/Oto)
My Brothers	72	(2)
A Teacher Taught Me	74	(1)
I Am of the Earth	75	(1)
Simplicity Aims Circularly	76	(1)
Hartico	76	(3)
Carter Revard (Osage)
The Coyote	79	(1)
Driving in Oklahoma	80	(1)
Getting Across	81	(1)
Not Just Yet	82	(1)
North of Santa Monica	83	(1)
Another Sunday Morning	84	(2)
E S P	86	(4)
Advice from Euterpe	90	(1)
Coming of Age in the County Jail	91	(1)
On the Bright Side	92	(1)
``But Still in Israel's Paths They Shine''	93	(2)
Home Movies	95	(1)
January 15 as a National Holiday	96	(1)
Support Your Local Police Dog	97	(2)
Discovery of the New World	99	(3)
Thomas Peacock (Anishinabe)
In Respect of the Elderly	102	(1)
Fear	102	(1)
Earth Song	103	(1)
For the Children	103	(1)
Andonis, My Daughter	103	(1)
Six Eagles	104	(1)
Anita Endrezze-Probst (Yaqui)
Raven/Moon	105	(3)
The Passion Drinker	108	(1)
Red Rock Ceremonies	109	(1)
The Week-End Indian	110	(5)
The Dream Feast	115	(2)
Charles Ballard (Quapaw/Cherokee)
Their Cone-like Cabins	117	(1)
Grandma Fire	118	(1)
Memo	118	(1)
The Spirit Craft	119	(1)
The Speaker	120	(1)
The Winds of Change	121	(1)
Now the People Have the Light	121	(1)
You Northern Girl	122	(1)
Sand Creek	123	(1)
During the Pageant at Medicine Lodge	124	(1)
Ramona Wilson (Colville)
Keeping Hair	125	(1)
Overnight Guest	126	(1)
Reading Indian Poetry	126	(1)
Summer	127	(1)
Eveningsong 1	127	(1)
Eveningsong 2	128	(2)
Late in Fall	130	(1)
The Meeting	130	(1)
Spring in Virginia	131	(1)
Spring at Fort Okanogan	131	(1)
Bags Packed and We Expected This	132	(2)
A. K. Redwing (Sioux)
Sitting Bull's Will	134	(1)
Chrome Babies Eating Chocolate Snowmen	135	(1)
Two Hookers	136	(1)
Written in Unbridled Repugnance	137	(1)
Tornado Soup	138	(1)
A Blue Jeaned Rock Queen	138	(1)
The Hoofer	139	(1)
Agent of Love	139	(1)
Cosmic Eye	139	(1)
A Lost Mohican Visits Hell's Kitchen	139	(1)
The World's Last Unnamed Poem	140	(1)
Peter Blue Cloud (Mohawk)
Hawk Nailed to a Barn Door	141	(1)
Wolf	142	(7)
Sweat Song	149	(1)
Death Chant	150	(1)
Composition	151	(1)
Untitled	152	(3)
Phil George (Nez Perce/Tsimshian)
Prelude to Memorial Song	155	(1)
The Visit	156	(1)
Sunflower Moccasins	157	(1)
America's Wounded Knee	157	(1)
Spring Cleaning	158	(1)
Spruce	158	(1)
Favorite Grandson Braid	159	(1)
Name Giveaway	160	(1)
Moon of Huckleberries	160	(1)
First Grade	161	(1)
Spokane Falls	161	(1)
Wardance	162	(1)
Morning Vigil	162	(1)
Wardance Soup	163	(1)
``Ya-Ka-Nes'' /Patty L. Harjo (Seneca/Seminole)
Death	164	(1)
Wishes	164	(1)
Taos Winter	165	(1)
The Mask	165	(1)
Where Have You Gone, Little Boy	166	(1)
To an Indian Poet	166	(2)
Lew Blockcolski (Cherokee/Choctaw)
Reservation Special	168	(1)
Powwow Remnants	168	(1)
Langston Hughes	169	(1)
The Flicker	169	(1)
Playing Pocahontas	170	(1)
The Flint Hills	170	(1)
Peyote Vision	171	(1)
The Woyi	172	(1)
Indian Love Song	172	(2)
After the First Frost	174	(1)
The Urban Experience Part One	174	(1)
The Urban Experience Part Two	175	(1)
Wisga	175	(1)
My Dream	176	(1)
The 49 Stomp	176	(1)
Carroll Arnett (Cherokee)
The Story of My Life	177	(3)
Anadarko John	180	(1)
Removal: Last Part	180	(2)
Land	182	(1)
Drunk	182	(1)
Something for Supper	183	(1)
Rock Painting	184	(1)
You	185	(4)
Jim Tollerud (Makah)
Eye of God	189	(1)
Earth	190	(1)
Week-Seek	190	(1)
Bird of Power	191	(1)
Buzz	192	(1)
Elementary	193	(1)
Ranier	193	(1)
Thirsty Island	193	(1)
Sunrise	194	(1)
King D. Kuka (Blackfeet)
February Morning	195	(1)
Gallery of My Heart	196	(1)
Janna	197	(1)
My Friend the Wind	198	(2)
Jackie	200	(1)
Untitled	200	(1)
Evening	201	(1)
My Song	201	(2)
Harold Littlebird (Santo Domingo / Laguna Pueblo)
For Tom Numkena, Hopi/Spokane	203	(2)
For Drum Hadley	205	(1)
Mother/Deer/Lady	206	(1)
Alone Is the Hunter	206	(1)
If You Can Hear My Hooves	207	(1)
Could I Say I Touched You	207	(1)
Oh But It Was Good	207	(1)
Coming Home in March	208	(1)
Pennsylvania Winter Indian 1974	209	(1)
Gaa-a-muna, a Mountain Flower	210	(1)
Hummingbird	210	(1)
Old Moke	211	(1)
Wrap Me in Blankets of Momentary Winds	211	(1)
For the Girls 'Cause They Know	212	(1)
In a Double Rainbow	212	(2)
Ray A. Young Bear (Mesquaki)
The Place of O	214	(2)
What We Can	216	(1)
The Place of V	217	(2)
Before the Actual Cold	219	(1)
The Way the Bird Sat	220	(5)
Contributors' Biographical Notes	225