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Name Native American Poems

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


The Legend of Big Indian, Part I
Hear 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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Categories: native american, america, history, loss, lost



A Mountain Man's Tale, Part Iii
III.
“Eagle Vision says since his own son died
he’s felt a hollow no raiding can fill,
that men should be fathers, pass their wisdom
to adopt you as...

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Categories: native american, adventure, family, history, loss,

A Lakota Mother's Prayer
‘Wana Hin Gle’ the Lakota call me,
‘Wana Hin Gle’ my given name

‘He Who Happens Now,’ the drumbeat has found me,
reaching into this moment beyond glory...

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Categories: native american, prayer,

Premium Member Tahoma
He was already an old man the first time, at us, he waved 
and that memory is one his sister and I…in our hearts have...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: native american,

Premium Member Stone Cold Sunshine - Fort Sill, February, 1909
GERONIMO, FEARED APACHE WARRIOR, DEAD

Human Tiger, Merciless Slayer of Mexicans and Whites 
   
His Own Family Fought Government Efforts 
to Provide Medical Treatment

Fulfilled...

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Categories: allegory, conflict, native american,



Premium Member The Genocide At Wounded Knee
On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians...

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Categories: native american, america, death, military, murder,

Premium Member The Audience Falls Silent
I had heard about a ...
    a writer's group  ... in my city
      where a writer...

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Categories: native american, poetry, writing,

Premium Member Hiawatha Mountain - Both Audio and Text
One hot August afternoon, in the hills behind our home,
I chanced upon what seemed a trail I felt inclined to roam.

I walked it quite a...

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Categories: native american, mountains,

No-Name Football Team
They play their home games
in the nation's capital.
The team has no name.

They were the "Redskins".
For Native Americans,
the team dropped their moniker.
...

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Categories: football, native american,

Premium Member Indigenous Peoples Day
When I was young I couldn’t wait to go outside and play
when school was not in session on Christopher Columbus Day.

We were taught all the...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: columbus day, native american,

Native Americans
They where hunter gatherers at one with the land,
They thanked mother earth with song and dance,
Occasionally another tribe would raid and kill,
Years they lived on...

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Categories: native american, betrayal, culture, freedom, native

Undocumented Warrior
Undocumented Warrior

By George W. Clever-----2002

I sneaked into this country on moccasin feet
No one knew I was here
Till one day someone asked 
Where is your C.D.I.B....

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Categories: native american, america, culture, freedom, native

Premium Member The Haunting Adventures of a Dirty Blonde Knight-Mighty Ego Trip
Escaping from the wintry plight 
Fearless knight 
Having golden locks 
With a physique like a rock 
Walked up and down the mountainous block 
In the...

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Categories: native american, fantasy, hero, lust, marriage,

Premium Member Song of the Canoe


         Song of the Canoe



The empty canoe floating alone.
Soft, smiling, summer leaves.....her only companions.
A rare, friendly sparrow...

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Categories: native american, beautiful, fantasy, image, native

Premium Member Bergfried
I.	  The Settlement

          Hickory bark bluffs
         ...

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Categories: native american, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth,


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