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 BeadsBlessing Beads
Once more around the park please
Once more, just so i can see
The...
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giving, native american, remembrance
TahomaHe 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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native american,
Superior MotherIf 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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native american, angst, god, identity, native
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,
A New NationWe 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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america, native american,
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,
Indigenous Peoples DayWhen 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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columbus day, native american,
Undocumented WarriorUndocumented 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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native american, america, culture, freedom, native
The Homeless PoetA 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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native american, for him, heartbroken, home,
Finding My SpiritI 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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childhood, native american,
Earth For SaleSponsored by Lowest Bidders
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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native american, america, anti bullying, caregiving,
Raising the Girl Right, Part IPrentice 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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native american, discrimination, family, growing up,
America's Hypocrisy Or the School of Resentmentare 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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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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native american, beauty, evil, grandfather, grandson,
EdisonI 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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native american, identity, light, miracle, native