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Carol Bachofner
Water is as essential to our collective lives as the blood pumping through our human hearts. You might correlate our bodies and the body of our Mother. We are connected ... -
Alice M. Azure--Featured Writer
CAHOKIA COLLECTS and RESPONSES Ancients of Cahokia,I offer these prayersas a person busy with everydaywork—aware that you alsobusied yourselves aroundour beautiful bottom lands. I. Nakun otowanhe ... -
Sebrena Tomah
Believe Hold on, be strong Finding our strength in who we are Through our ancestor’s ways Will help us get through each and every day. No time for shame or ... -
Charlie True
Per the request of the late Abenaki Elder Gali Sanchez, this poem was lovingly read at his ceremony, as his ashes were laid to rest in the Connecticut River. Seeing ... -
William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.
All the Way to the Bone I wish, I pray, I prayed, I thought, I even sing, for all good things to come your way, I told myself all those ... -
Joseph Bruchac--Featured Writer
Writer’s Statement You could say that my sons turned me into a children’s author at a time when my main objective was writing and publishing poetry. First of all, the ... -
Timothy Littlehawk Blanchette
The 6th Sense I see her On posters and on the TV screen I see her Outline piercing through beams of light That pour Through the old, long-pained windows Inside ... -
Charlie True: In Memoriam
Don't Look Back She was in a home for those who wait, where they sit and fondle favored toys from the bins of memory, picking through the litter of their ... -
Cecelia Estrada Vaughan
Standing in a Wooded Area Iti waya chito fako Iti chito kanafa shila kchulakko Iti illi Large tree Leaning without limbs Large dry tree fallen turned up By the roots ... -
Maurice Kenny: In Memoriam
Maurice Kenny was born in Watertown, New York on August 16, 1929 to parents of mixed ethnic heritage; his father, Anthony Andrew Kenny, was of both Mohawk and Irish ancestry, ...