Native American Poetry
This list of poetry by Native American poets was created by a librarian at The Seattle Public Library in conjunction with Beyond the Frame, a community-wide initiative revisiting the photographs of Edward S. Curtis and sparking conversations on Native identity, race and resilience, art and culture. The Library will be presenting exhibits and related programming throughout 2018, beginning with Living Cultures.
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Nature Poem
Pico is a Brooklyn-based poet originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation.
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The Nightlife
Paschen is the daughter of ballerina Maria Tallchief and an enrolled member of the Osage nation.
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Of Mongrelitude
Brolaski is Mescalero and Lipan Apache.
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Raven Eye
Tamez is of Lipan Apache, Jumano Apache, and Spanish heritage.
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Red Indian Road West
Lucille Day (of Wampanoag ancestry) and Luke Warm Water (Oglala Lakota) are the editors of this collection of poetry by Native American poets from California.
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Royals
San Francisco poet Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish reservation near Seattle.
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Seven Hands, Seven Hearts
Woody is an enrolled member of the Confederate Tribes of Warm Springs in Oregon.
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Sing
Edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, this collection gathers poetry by over 80 indigenous poets across the Americas.
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Streaming
Hedge Coke is of Huron, Metis, French Canadian, Portuguese, English, Irish, Scot, and mixed Southeastern Native heritage.
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This Accident of Being Lost
Simpson is of Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg ancestry and a member of Alderville First Nation in Ontario, Canada.
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