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Lit->NA Poems: Border Crossing Rights-kids poem-teacher tool
Posted on Saturday, January 24 @ 18:03:15 CST (1045 reads)

Anonymous writes From the time that Skywoman fell
North America was on a turtle shell
Native people were free to roam
Turtle Island, our natural home.

Since 1492 we see and saw
Treaties that are still the law
The list is long and tattered too
So this is if you never knew,

The first ones were legal deeds
Two separate lines in wampum beads
Distinct ways, words, and ceremony
Governance and territory.

John Jay's Treaty (article 3) of 1794*
Was also known as so much more
Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation
Recognized a sovereign nation

The border we called the ‘medicine line’
A margin of colonial design
The 1812 Washington treaty
Guaranteed our right to cross freely

1814 (article 9) Treaty of Ghent*
Reaffirmed what sovereignty meant
Three treaties that still recognize
Native people did not colonize

Again a treaty in 1842
Re-reaffirmed what we always knew
Another Washington treaty that would enforce
Our inherent right to cross of course

July 14, 1928
IDLA made no debate
Inherent rights to cross their line
Confirmed in Article 3* and Article 9*

In mid-July every year
There’s a crossing, you may hear
Autonomous homelands, our steps display
Within Canada and the USA

Inherent first, and treaty right
To cross their border, day and night
At the Whirlpool Bridge near the Falls you’ll see
Our people practice Sovereignty

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Lit->NA Poems: Fly with the Eagles
Posted on Thursday, June 15 @ 12:02:44 CDT (8048 reads)

I stretch out my arms and fly with the eagles
I hunt with the bear
I run with the deer
I swim with the fish
and yet I still am a man.

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Lit->NA Poems: A Song For The People
Posted on Thursday, June 15 @ 11:47:01 CDT (6867 reads)

Grandfather, Great Spirit
I give you thanks
That we can sit here
In this circle of Life,
We send Prayers
And the very best thoughts.

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Lit->NA Poems: The Calling
Posted on Thursday, June 15 @ 11:31:40 CDT (6517 reads)

AUTHOR: Gerald Fisher

The fire is dancing tonight and the winds are talking
Dancers from past lives enter the circle
Leading me back and forth through the history of myself
The mind searches as the spirit dances

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R&S->Prayers: Let my spirit pass without shame
Posted on Thursday, June 15 @ 11:02:54 CDT (7491 reads)

O' Great Spirit,
Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me!
I am small and weak, I need your strength and wisdom.

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Lit->NA Poems: Oh Redman
Posted on Saturday, March 26 @ 07:35:11 CST (8401 reads)

muquanee writes Oh Redman
To My Beloved People and All Native Americans

Oh Redman tall and proud,
watch him take his stand.
To protect his humble people,
and their mighty sacred land.

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Lit->NA Poems: In a time long ago
Posted on Saturday, March 26 @ 07:33:51 CST (9138 reads)

muquanee writes In a time long ago

I dreamed a dream of long ago,
when you and I were young,
and meant to be.
When with our tribe we wandered,
far and wide and spoke the tongue,
of the cherokee.

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Lit->NA Poems: The Return
Posted on Monday, February 21 @ 01:53:10 CST (6921 reads)

littleheartflower writes

The Return..KEYWORDS: Native american poem native american poetry indian poem

AUTHOR: Little Heart Flower

Downward trodden in this valley of great hunger.
My wounded spirit lies dry upon the barren
floor of life.

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Lit->NA Poems: What would you do?
Posted on Thursday, February 10 @ 06:58:31 CST (7643 reads)

What would you do...KEYWORDS: native american poem cherokee poetry indian poem

What would you do if I took from you
Your home, your family and your identity, too?
If I changed your religion and the language you spoke,
Left you hungry, suffering and broke.

Note: Please correct the all caps in the body of your article. Thanks - The Editor

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Lit->NA Poems: The Gift
Posted on Thursday, February 10 @ 06:52:54 CST (8015 reads)

The Gift... KEYWORDS: native american poem cherokee poetry native american poetry indian poem

Rain on the mountains,
Mist on the streams,
Of these things
The red man dreams.

Note: Please correct the all caps in the body of this article. Thanks --The editor.

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Lit->NA Poems: echos
Posted on Wednesday, February 09 @ 05:21:17 CST (5409 reads)

visions from the past are calling me,

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Lit->NA Poems: My Indian Pride
Posted on Friday, February 04 @ 10:19:29 CST (10353 reads)

My Indian Pride... KEYWORDS: native american poetry cherokee poem indian poetry native american poem Martha Moongazer Beard poem

My body lives in the white man's land,
Yet strong and proud my red skin still stands.

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Lit->NA Poems: Life Giver
Posted on Tuesday, February 01 @ 17:34:47 CST (4648 reads)

Life... KEYWORDS: native american poetry native american poem Martha Moongazer Beard poetry native american life poems

Come Little Cricket, sing with me.
We will gather berries down by the stream,
Take them to the fire and make Berry Bread.
Tonight for the feast we shall all be fed.

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Lit->NA Poems: Survival of the Choctaw Nation
Posted on Tuesday, February 01 @ 17:20:49 CST (7957 reads)

Hunter writes

Survival of the Choctaw Nation.. KEYWORDS: choctaw poem choctaw poetry native american poem native american poetry ML Hunter poem

I can see my sons and daughters
From this far place
I feel the winds of change once again
My heart is full to see a new day
People proudly searching for ancestors
In numbers great as the stars in the sky

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Lit->NA Poems: Reservation
Posted on Sunday, January 30 @ 15:53:26 CST (3276 reads)

Reservation... KEYWORDS: native american poem native american poetry reservation poem reservation poetry ML Hunter

Hear, Little Sister, hear
while the wind stands still
ancient voices speak to you

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