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School Native American Poems

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


Blessing Beads
Blessing Beads

      Once more around the park please
      Once more, just so i can see

The...

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Categories: giving, native american, remembrance



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 Superior Mother
If I feel guilty 
Does that make you
Superior Mother
Am I just a bad bad boy
Who’s just to much of a bother!
I guess things haven’t changed...

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Categories: native american, angst, god, identity, native

Premium Member Angel Bones
Angel 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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Categories: native american, abuse, angst, courage, discrimination,

A New Nation
We lived in a house that had no wheels
I guess that made  us rich,
Property lines defined by giant oaks
and roads defined by the ditch.

In...

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© Juli Freda  Create an image from this poem.
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 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,

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

The Homeless Poet
A homeless poet

A few days ago, I was walking home with my dollar store notebook in my hand as I walked. I was deep in...

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Categories: native american, for him, heartbroken, home,

Premium Member Finding My Spirit
I started my school years in a strict Catholic school
run by nuns and I was terrified of them
with their black hoods and caps
like death dressed...

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Categories: childhood, native american,

Premium Member Earth For Sale
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It interests me
that Hiawatha,
like Jesus of Nazareth before him,
and Mahatma Gandhi after,
taught WinWin cooperative peace
by co-investing in ego/ecotherapeutic justice.

Yet anti-Catholic
anti-Muslim
anti-Jewish
anti-indigenous
anti-First SacredNation
anti-goodfaith-trusting-inclusive-extended-family-cooperativist
Protestant reformists...

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Categories: native american, america, anti bullying, caregiving,

Raising the Girl Right, Part I
Prentice Haines was the son of wealth,
the youngest of a brood of nine.
At sixteen he fled from Boston town
for the rugged life of western climes,
trapping...

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Categories: native american, discrimination, family, growing up,

America's Hypocrisy Or the School of Resentment
are you free, humanity, by power of love 
or in chain by love of power or by lack of it? 

a student of The School...

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Categories: community, home, native american,

Cherokee Legend Retold For Contest Native American Collage
“Grandfather, grandfather! At school today,
a classmate hit me with a book.
The teacher made him stay inside
for recess. She said he was a good boy 
who...

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Categories: native american, beauty, evil, grandfather, grandson,

Edison
I thought of a day sans the Sun
I thought of a night sans the light

All the times that I thought of the light
I thought of...

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Categories: native american, identity, light, miracle, native


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