Index of Poems Used in This Document

"In the poetry of the modern American Indian we find a raging beyond nobility that calls for recognition of the humanity and nationality of Indian existence"
Vine Deloria Jr. in
Michael McKale, "From Reservation to Global Society:
American Culture, Liberation and the Native American:
An Interview with Vine Deloria, Jr.,"
in Radical Religion 2 (4, 1976):50.

Sherman Alexie: At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School
Paula Gunn Allen: Taking a Visitor to See the Ruins
Elaine Anton: Sun also available in O'odham.
Esther G. Belin: Spirit in Me
George Blueeyes: Sacred Mountains also available in Navajo
George Bradley: The Year of the Comet
Monument Valley
The Sound of the Sun
Christopher Buckley: Ansel Adams' Photo, "Georgia O'Keefe and Orville Cox,
Canyon de Chelly National Monument 1937"; Palo Duro Canyon; Philippe Halsman's Photo of Georgia O'Keefe
at Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1948; Ranchos Church No. 1; Red Hills and Bones; Road Past the View; Sky above Clouds
Jeanette Chico: The Desert also available in O'odham.
Jane Candia Coleman: A Found Poem; Leaving the Valley; Moonrise, Hernandez; Nine Smooth Hills
Anita Endrezze: Song-Maker
Della Frank: T'aa Dine Nishli
Nia Francisco: Ode to a Drunk Woman; Navajo Inn; Onion and Fried Potatoes; "Snake Juice" Talk; December 26th, 1974 6:45AM
Joy Harjo: Autobiography; Eagle Poem; Grace; She Had Some Horses; Javelina; Reconciliation; Santa Fe; September Moon
and from Secrets From The Center of the World; I discover where giant butterflies burrow and dream.; Don't bother the earth spirit who lives here.; And in the season of new grass my birth is more visible; In winter it is easier to see what my death might look like; I don't imagine the turquoise bracelet the dusky wash makes; Two sisters meet on horseback.; Scarlet bluffs gather here to drink; These smoky bluffs are old traveling companions; Stories are our wealth.; If winter describes the frozen angles of this sandy wash; These tamaracks pretend to be tamaracks; It's true the landscape forms the mind.; I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars; In a misty dawn at the center of the world
A. A. Hedge Coke: Bueno-Bye; Rail
Roberta Joe: Storm Pattern
Sunset Woman's Ivy League Escape
Malinda Leon: Saguaro also available in O'odham.
Donald Levering: Canyon de Chelly - White House Trail; Lava Beds (The Malpais); Raven's Nest; Sagebrush; Tumbleweed; Uranium Tailings
Daniel Lopez: Lady Sitting Mountain also available in O'odham.; Lonely Mountain also available in O'odham.
N. Scott Momaday: The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee; Forms of the Earth at Abiquiu; Memories; Momaday in New Mexico; From The Names; The Remembered Earth
Pat Mora: Legal Alien; Mi Madre; Silence Like Cool Sand; Unrefined
Nora Naranjo-Morse: Childlike Enthusiasm; Gia's Song; The Living Exhibit Under the Museum's Portal; The Money Beasts; Mud Woman's First Encounter with the World of Money and Business; There Is Nothing Like An Idea; Towa; Tradition and Change; When Mud Woman Begins
Navajo Traditional: House Made of Dawn
Cecelia Nuñez: August also available in O'odham.; Sky also available in O'odham.
Henrietta Pablo: Untitled also available in O'odham.; Wind also available in O'odham.
Simon Ortiz: Canyon de Chelly; A Designated National Park; Final Solution: Jobs, Leaving; The First Hard Core; For Nanao; Grants to Gallup, New Mexico; Horizons and Rains; Indians Sure Came in Handy; It Was That Indian; Long House Valley Poem; Many Farms Notes; My Mother and my Sisters; Out to Tsaile Lake; Starting at the Bottom; A Story of How a Wall Stands; The State's claim that it seeks in no way to deprive; Time to Kill in Gallup; To Change in a Good Way; What I Mean
O'odham Traditional: From the O'odham Ceremony for Bringing Rain also available in O'odham.
Helen J. Ramon: Desert also available in O'odham
Wendy Rose: Robert
Elizabeth Salcido: When It Rains also available in O'odham.
Carol Lee Sanchez: for the cloud people
Angelina Saraficio: Mountains also available in O'odham.; Roadrunner also available in O'odham.; Saguaro Cactus also available in O'odham.
Richard Shelton: Desert; Desert Water; Local Knowledge; The New Road; Requiem for Sonora; Reservations; San Juan's Day; Sonora; Sonora For Sale; The Stones; Stranger; Territorial Rights; Whatever Became of Me
Luci Tapahonso: Better to Avoid Her; A Discreet Conversation; Her Daughter's Eyes; Hard to Take; Hills Brothers Coffee; In 1864; It Has Always Been This Way; Light a Candle; Outside a Small House; Pay Up Or Else; Prayer; Sháá Áko Dahjiní eh Remember the Things They Told Us; A Rough Life; She Sits on the Bridge; These Long Drives; They are Silent and Quick; They Are Together Now; What Danger We Court; A Whispered Chant of Loneliness; Who Were You?
Brent Toadlena: Storm
Agnes Tso: Male Rain, Female Rain, & Awakening
Carlson Vicenti: Oh, Saint Michael
Gertrude Walters: Yei Tsoh (Crane)
Ofelia Zepeda: Rain also available in O'odham.; We Are O'odham also available in O'odham.

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