Child Native American Poems
These Child Native American poems are examples of Native American poems about Child. These are the best examples of Native American Child poems written by international poets.
keeping the child companyIndian brave turned thirteen, it was his time in the woods
He was to spend the night, blindfolded, listening to sounds
A large animal came to keep...
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animal, native american,
The Legend of Big Indian, Part IHear this recitation
the Lenape nation
bore a child of extreme size,
in the Onteoras,
the Catskills of yore now,
this man would live out his whole life.
Winisook was his...
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native american, america, history, loss, lost
A Mountain Man's Tale, Part ViiVII.
Reid’s eyes widened with the realization,
she was with child? How long had she known?
His mind reeled and more men gathered outside,
by this time his cover...
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native american, adventure, family, history, loss,
A Mountain Man's Tale, Part ViVI.
When his pa had died, Reid had just felt fear,
he’d been a child, the pain overwhelming,
but to see Eagle Vision lying dead…
he felt a blind...
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native american, adventure, family, history, loss,
A Mountain Man's Tale, Part IvIV.
It was two years later, at age nineteen,
Reid was out checking new traps in a pond,
just his routine, when he heard a loud shout,
ran for...
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native american, adventure, family, history, loss,
A Mountain Man's Tale, Part II.
When he was born he was named Reid Gibson,
and his parents weren’t the richest of folk,
didn’t have money to buy land back east,
so off to...
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native american, adventure, family, history, loss,
Two Poems About the IroquoisRuler of the Cataracts-Maiden of the Mist
The thundering waters of the Niagara.
Voice of the mighty spirits of the water.
The natives believed and yearly sacrificed
a white...
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native american,
On the HillOn the hill, a mother
is desperate to nurse babies
who have gone still and silent,
with milk they'll never take
She knows they are not sleeping...
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native american, animal, bereavement, birth, child,
Blessing BeadsBlessing Beads
Once more around the park please
Once more, just so i can see
The...
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giving, native american, remembrance
Living Her LifeShe sees the pains,
Which her native folk have gained.
She changed from a little girl
To someone who has always had the potential
To change her own little...
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culture, humanity, native american,
Angel BonesAngel Bones
Two Hundred fifteen angels (Narration by an elder)
each buried in a shallow grave
The monsters said the Angels were savages
that they were there to...
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native american, abuse, angst, courage, discrimination,
There For MeLooking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.
I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...
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native american, 12th grade, character, hope,
She Saw Well Beyond Her Flesh Yearsthe seeing child
exotic and special
an old soul
she had a history
unknown to those unenlightened
understood by the others
she saw well beyond her flesh years
the villagers flocked...
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native american, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Meaningful Numberthe number falling before three and preceding five
sacred in my culture to ground us to the nature of all things
the time of life when 'being'...
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life, native american,
'color of My Heart'
Since a child I have wandered and explored,
the forest and all the meadows and streams;
the spirit wind has been my great reward,
my hair taken along...
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native american, nature,