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Food Native American Poems

These Food Native American poems are examples of Native American poems about Food. These are the best examples of Native American Food poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
During the Civil War, money came late,
Indians starved, left to their fate.
Two braves came across a white farmer's food.
They were hungry and stressed and in...

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Categories: betrayal, courage, native american,



Premium Member Drying Rice Moon
lake-born brown wild rice
	dried flat by hot hardwood flame ~	
		canoe rests onshore

(October Full Moon – Dakota)...

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Categories: native american, environment, food, moon, native

Pow Wow
I long to dance and chant around the orange crackling fire in front of my tribe, the Sioux
Hot humid July night.
Sweat and passion.
Kick up the...

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Categories: native american, fun,

Premium Member Pink Moon
when the ducks return
	pink mosses utter volumes ~
		Lakota listen

(April Full Moon – Lakota)...

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Categories: native american, bird, environment, flower, food,

A Mountain Man's Tale, Part Iv
IV.
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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Categories: native american, adventure, family, history, loss,



Premium Member Cowboy Shooters On Motor Scooters
[Just a little note to help maintain the peace on Soup.          
To cause no animosity among...

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Categories: humorous, native american, western,

Premium Member Spaghetti - a Movie Not Made
Smoke signals rise from Sitting Duck cavern
In town the Pitt gang are trashing the tavern
John Wayne strolled in and he ain’t here to dance
They say...

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Categories: america, native american,

There For Me
Looking 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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Categories: native american, 12th grade, character, hope,

Premium Member Thanks To the Great Spirit
He gave thanks to The Great Spirit
Appreciating the cool waters of the streams
Excited for daily food that wanders into his path
Eager to begin a new...

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Categories: native american, thanks,

Premium Member Order of the Arrow
Three days and topo, 
Drawn circle to stay 
Within; can’t 
Encounter another.

Three days of solitude
Bare provisions, no tent;
Fruit, jerky, one egg,
Three matches.

The rest of food...

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Categories: mountains, native american, nature,

Winter Prayer
Kiji Manito, winter is coming on and the days have grown shorter
Let me not complain
Let me see the beauty of winter and longer nights
I have...

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Categories: native american, appreciation, blessing, creation, devotion,

Premium Member The Warrior Poem
It’s known as the Warrior Poem and is attributed to Tecumseh
a Native American warrior and chief
who as a Native American in the late 17 and...

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Categories: native american,

Premium Member A People of Courage
It is easy for me to look beyond myself in Canada,
I do not have to go to a third world country;
or very far, I just...

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Categories: native american,

Premium Member Onward Christian Soldiers
Onward Christian soldiers
Marching off to prayer
Making sure your wallets
no one at all will share

Onward then, ye Christians
as atheists help the poor
blend you prayers with hypocrisy
as...

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Categories: native american, betrayal, bible, child abuse,

Swell Ya Sumthang Sore
HE WISHED HER TO BE MORE RESPECTFUL
A WELL MANNERED PERSON
WITH DESTINCTIONS THAT
WERE TO DISGINQUISH FROM ALL OTHERS
SHE WAS BRASH, MEAN AND SURLEY
A COMMON WOMAN
WITH UNCOMMON...

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Categories: native american, culture, food, hip hop,


Book: Shattered Sighs