This list of poetry by Native American poets was created by a librarian at The Seattle Public Library in conjunction with Beyond the Frame, a community-wide initiative revisiting the photographs of Edward S. Curtis and sparking conversations on Native identity, race and resilience, art and culture. The Library will be presenting exhibits and related programming throughout 2018, beginning with Living Cultures.
Cell Traffic
Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe and sister of well-known Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich.
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View Cell TrafficConflict Resolution for Holy Beings
Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
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View Conflict Resolution for Holy BeingsCorpse Whale
Okpik is Inupiaq, Inuit originally from Alaska's Artic Slope.
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View Corpse WhaleEarth Vowels
Niatum is a Jamestown S'Klallam tribal member.
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View Earth VowelsFlood Song
Bitusi is a Diné (Navajo) from the Navajo Reservation in White Cone, Arizona.
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View Flood SongFrom Sand Creek
Ortiz is an Acoma Pueblo Indian who grew up speaking the Acoma tongue.
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View From Sand CreekFrom Unincorporated Territory [guma']
Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru (Chamorro) from the Pacific Island of Guåhan/Guam.
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View From Unincorporated Territory [guma']Full-metal Indigiqueer
Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, two-spirit poet from Peguis First Nation in Canada.
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View Full-metal IndigiqueerInjun
Abel is is a Nisga’a writer from British Columbia.
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View InjunManifestation Wolverine
Young Bear is a member of the Meskwaki Nation (the Red Earth People) and lives on the Meskwaki tribal settlement near Tama, Iowa.
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