Native American songs and poems : an anthology / edited by Brian Swann

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

Contents: 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. -- Luiseno songs of the seasons. -- Six dream songs (You and I shall go ; Minnow and flowers ; Sleep ; Dandelion puffs ; There above ; 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"

Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, 1996

Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, 1996

1996

viii, 56 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references