Table of Contents
Introduction Twenty-One Poets for the Twenty-First Century Heid E. Erdrich xi
Tacey M. Atsitty 3
Anasazi
Nightsong
Downpour
Paper Water
Elegy for Yucca Fruit Woman
Hole through the Rock
Layli Long Soldier 15
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Whereas I Did Not Desire in Childhood
Whereas Resolution's an Act
Obligations 1
Obligations 2
Tommy Pico 29
From IRL
From Nature Poem
From Junk
Margaret Noodin 45
Waawiindamojig / The Promisers
Okanan / Bones
Winiiam Aagimeke / William Making Snowshoes
Agoozimakakiig Idiwag / What the Peepers Say
Jiikimaadizi / A Joyful Life
Mazinbii'amawaan / Sending Messages
Laura Da' 55
A Mighty Pulverizing Machine
The Haskell Marching Band
Passive Voice
Quarter Strain
Gwen Nell Westerman 65
Owotanna Sececa
Linear Process
Genetic Code
Quantum Theory
Dakota Homecoming
Theory Doesn't Live Here
Undivided Interest
Jennifer Elise Foerster 75
Leaving Tulsa
Pottery Lessons I
Birthmark
Chimera
Blood Moon Triptych
Canyon
Natalie Diaz 91
Dome Riddle
Other Small Thundering
American Arithmetic
The First Water Is the Body
Trevino L. Brings Plenty 107
For the Sake of Beauty
The Sound of It
Part Gravel, Part Water, All Indian
Blizzard South Dakota
Northeast Portland
Not Just Anybody Can Have One
Red-ish Brown-ish
Plasmic Kiln
Song Syntax Cycle
dg nanouk okpik 121
Warming
Her/My Arctic Corpse Whale
The Weight of the Arch Distributes the Girth of the Other
A Year Dot
Dog Moon Night at Noatak
She Travels
Julian Talamantez Brolaski 131
Blackwater Stole My Pronoun
In the Cut
What Do They Know of Suffering, Who Eat of Pineapples Yearround
As the Owl Augurs
Stonewall to Standing Rock
Horse Vision
The Bear and the Salmon
When It Rains It Pours
The Bear Was Born
Sy Hoahwah 145
Anchor-Screws of Culture
Toward Mount Scott
Ever Since I Can Remember
What Is Left
Before We Are Eaten
Glitter
Hinterlands
Hillbilly Leviathan
Craig Santos Perez 155
From Lisiensan Ga'lago
From The Legends of Juan Malo [a Malologue]
Ginen the Micronesian Kingfisher [I Sihek]
Ginen Tidelands [Latte Stone Park] [Hagåtña, Guåhan]
(First Trimester)
(Papa and Wakea)
(I Tinituhon)
Gordon Henry, Jr. 167
Simple Four Part Directions for Making Indian Lit
How Soon
Dear Sonny:
Among the Almost Decolonized
The Mute Scribe Recalls Some Talking Circle
Brandy Nalani McDougall 181
The Petroglyphs at Olowalu
On Cooking Captain Cook
Pele'aihonua
Papatuanuku
This Island on Which I Love You
Genesis
M. L. Smoker 193
Casualties
Crosscurrent
Equilibrium
We are the ones
Heart Butte, Montana
LeAnne Howe 203
A Duck's Tune
Finders Keepers: Aboriginal Responses to European Colonization
Ballast
Catafalque
Catafalque II
The Rope Seethes
Cedar Sigo 213
Now I'm a Woman
Thrones
Green Rainbow Song
Things to Do in Suquamish
Taken Care Of
Aquarelle
Light Unhuried, Unchained
Double Vision
Karenne Wood 227
Amoroleck's Words
My Standard Response
In Memory of Shame
Abracadabra, an Abcedarian
Bartolomé de las Casas, 1542
The Poet I Wish I Was
Eric Gansworth 239
Speaking through Our Nations' Teeth
It Goes Something Like This
Repatriating Ourselves
Snagging the Eye from Curtis
A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function
… Bee
Janet McAdams 253
The Hands of the Taino
Leaving the Old Gods
Ghazal of Body
From "The Collectors"
Tiger on the Shoulder
Hunters, Gatherers
Earthling
Author Notes 269
Editor's Acknowledgments 279
Permissions 281