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Title

Earth always endures : native American poems / selected by Neil Philip ; illustrated with photographs by Edward S. Curtis.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Philip, Neil.
• Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952.

Description

93 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

• This eloquent new anthology gives a vivid insight into the world of Native Americans. The chants, prayers, and songs in these pages vibrate with wisdom, joy, and terrible sadness. Underlying everything is a sense of the sacred - the wish, as one Yokuts poet says, to be "one with the world.".
• The sixty poems in this collection are accompanied by over forty unforgettable duotone photographs by Edward S. Curtis. This stunning combination of word and image brings us closer than ever before to the heart of Native American traditions.
• The poems come from the woodlands, the plains, the deserts, and the pueblos. They speak of love, of war, of the known and the unknowable. Today's flowering of new writing by Native Americans has revived interest in the song traditions that underlie their work. This anthology aims to give a representative selection of the best of those traditions, from Maine to California.

Subjects

• American poetry > Indian authors
• American poetry > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 93).

Contents

• Earth Always Endures (Mandan) -- Magpie Song (Navajo) -- Prayer at Sunrise (Zuni) -- Song of the Opening of the Shrine (Osage) -- The Child Is Introduced to the Cosmos at Birth (Omaha) -- Song of the Sky Loom (Tewa) -- Prayer to the Goddess (Apache) -- from Sayataca's Night Chant (Zuni) -- The Wind Blows from the Sea (Papago) -- Invocation to the Rainmakers (Zuni) -- The Mockingbird's Song (Tiwa) -- Song of the Home God (Navajo) -- My Words Are Tied in One (Yokuts) -- Song to the Trees and Streams (Pawnee) -- My Music Reaches to the Sky (Chippewa) -- Friendly Song (Chippewa) -- An Overhanging Cloud (Chippewa) -- Wind Song (Pima) -- Song of the Thunders (Chippewa) -- Song of the Trees (Chippewa) -- Need I Be Afraid? (Hidatsa) -- Rattlesnake Ceremony Song (Yokuts) -- Ghost Dance Songs (Arapaho) -- Because I Am Poor (Kiowa) -- Let Me See Is This Real? (Pawnee) -- When You Return (Teton Sioux) -- Song of the Rising of the Buffalo Bull Men (Osage) -- To the Buffalo (Chippewa) --
• War Songs (Chippewa) -- A Spell to Destroy Life (Cherokee) -- Love Song (Chippewa) -- Wind Song (Kiowa) -- Song of an Ambitious Mother (Chippewa) -- Warpath Song (Kiowa) -- Song of Entering the Village (Osage) -- On Presenting an Enemy-slayer with a Cup of Water (Papago) -- I Will Walk (Chippewa) -- Mashing the Berries (Kiowa) -- The Noise of the Village (Chippewa) -- When I Was Young (Chiricahua Apache) -- The Entire World (Chippewa) -- I Heard You (Winnebago) -- A Wolf I Considered Myself (Teton Sioux) -- I Am a Wolf (Teton Sioux) -- Song of Sitting Bull (Teton Sioux) -- The Death Song of White Antelope (Cheyenne) -- I Am Walking (Chippewa) -- Song of Two Ghosts (Omaha) -- The Song of the Stars (Passamaquoddy) -- The Heavens Are Speaking (Pawnee) -- Our Hearts Are Set in the Heavens (Pawnee) -- In the Blue Night (Papago) -- Brown Owls (Papago) -- In the Great Night (Papago) -- A Lullaby (Tewa) -- Last Daylight Song (Navajo) -- Songs of Life Returning (Paiute) --
• All Is Restored in Beauty (Navajo) -- I Am Like a Bear (Pawnee) -- Song at Sunrise (Teton Sioux) -- Snake Song (Chippewa).

ISBN

0670868736 :

LCCN

95062372

OCLC

• 35831981
• ocm35831981

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries