Native American Poetry
This list of poetry by North American Indigenous poets was created by librarians at The Seattle Public Library.
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Weaving Sundown in A Scarlet Light
The first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate, Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
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Look at This Blue
Hedge Coke is of Huron, Metis, French Canadian, Portuguese, English, Irish, Scot, and mixed Southeastern Native heritage.
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A History of Kindness
Hogan is a Chickasaw novelist, essayist, and environmentalist.
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Dēmos
Naka-Hasebe Kingsley belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York.
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Living Nations, Living Words
Edited by Joy Harjo, this recent anthology collects poetry by contemporary Indigenous poets throughout North America and beyond.
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Mankiller Poems
The first woman elected to serve as the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Mankiller also wrote poetry throughout her life, collected here for the first time.
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The Death of Sitting Bear
Momaday is a Kiowa novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet.
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New Poets of Native Nations
Edited by Heid E. Erdrich, this collection includes twenty-one poets whose first books were published after the year 2000.
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Blood Snow
Okpik is Inupiaq, Inuit originally from Alaska's Artic Slope.
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