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| Returning the Gift: An Introduction | |
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| On a Festival Called Returning the Gift | |
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| Red Blues | |
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| Quincentennial Ghostdance Song | |
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| The Wolf Is Howling | |
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| Before the Long Night | |
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| Mecosta Corner Bar | |
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| Three Okie Coyotes | |
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| Dying Back | |
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| Old Students of the New Physics | |
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| [she had picked coyote up] | |
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| In the Picture I Don't See | |
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| A Chapter from The Indian Chronicles | |
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| Coming Back I Heard Mother Earth | |
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| My Spirit Raised Its Hands | |
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| New York Times in the Supermarket | |
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| Washashe Airlines | |
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| Heritage | |
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| History | |
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| The Heart's Resilience | |
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| The Graverobbers and the Oldest Word | |
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| Where I Was That Day | |
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| Living History | |
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| "Native Americans" vs. "The Poets" | |
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| Trailing You | |
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| Sig Elm | |
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| I Saw Charlie | |
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| Telling | |
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| Grandfather Visions | |
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| A Horse Called Tradition | |
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| Consider If You Will | |
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| Ute Delta | |
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| Meta-Charm | |
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| Recollecting the Gift | |
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| On Gene Rose Calling Me About Granddad Little Coon | |
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| Another Road for Creek Sounds and for Smoke | |
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| Visitations 7-2-92 | |
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| You Know Who You Are | |
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| Round Women | |
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| roll call | |
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| another saturday night . . . | |
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| She Said They Say | |
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| Zenith Supplies | |
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| Dlanusi | |
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| City Games of Life and Death | |
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| Visiting Professor and the Yellow Sky | |
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| poem without an end | |
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| sturgeon | |
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| Ernestine's House, Hoonah, Alaska, 6 A.M. | |
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| At Grand Canyon II | |
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| Ninety-eighter Creek | |
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| Blanket Poem # 2: The Pox | |
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| Blanket Poem # 4: Visiting Day | |
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| Indian Education Blues | |
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| Hunting Sequence | |
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| On Loosing My Language | |
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| Resistance | |
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| A White Friend | |
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| Lax | |
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| The Book of Deeds | |
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| I Feel | |
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| Seneca Snakeroot | |
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| There Must Be a Poem Here Somewhere | |
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| Mu-ve Over Atlantis | |
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| Coastal Mountain Train | |
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| Genealogy | |
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| Hides | |
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| Clay Man | |
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| The Common Color of Red | |
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| I Used to Know an Assiniboine Girl | |
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| Indians | |
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| Murder | |
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| Snow | |
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| Resurrection | |
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| Return of the Goddess | |
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| Wolf Warrior | |
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| Song for Oshawanung Manitoequay | |
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| [At once you recall] | |
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| Chant on Being Photographed | |
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| Wolf Dancer | |
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| [Old man] | |
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| two fragments | |
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| midland poem #3 | |
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| translation on a sleepless night | |
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| a great darkness | |
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| Bush's Mourning Feast | |
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| On Kaagwaantaan Street | |
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| On Kaagwaantaan II | |
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| A Story for Shatanni Ohoyo | |
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| Sun and Wind | |
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| Indian Machismo or Skin to Skin | |
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| my grandmother's house | |
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| in my grandmother's house | |
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| Sky Woman | |
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| "Now it seems there were brothers . . ." | |
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| [In a child's memory] | |
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| [Grandfather!] | |
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| A Tribal Situation | |
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| Deer Dance | |
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| Going Across | |
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| Sight | |
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| Black Tears | |
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| Dipping | |
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| [Planting seeds] | |
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| Acceptance | |
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| [I am of the Redhouse clan] | |
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| Blues Around a Barn | |
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| Lament Under the Moon | |
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| The Forgotten | |
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| [Bruised inside] | |
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| North American Native American Writers Journey to a Place Where the Air Is a Gift of Promise | |
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| Muskogee Carrier of the Stories | |
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| Veterans' Dance | |
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| red flags yellow flags | |
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| stupid questions | |
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| February and Violet | |
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| Making Quiltwork | |
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| "And the Land Is Just as Dry" | |
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| The Old Dead Unconscious Me | |
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| Two Standards | |
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| Eagle Bull's Song | |
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| Thunderbeings | |
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| Haunting Full Blood | |
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| Cities | |
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| A Brief Guide to American History Teachers | |
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| When Earth Brings | |
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| Dry Lightning | |
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| Forty, Trembling | |
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| No Questions Asked | |
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| Christoforo Colombo Claims America, 1492 | |
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| Let the Oppressed Sing | |
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| "Among the Savages . . ." | |
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| Some of the Life and Times of Wise-Wolf Salt-Town | |
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| wind song | |
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| notes from central california | |
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| Survival | |
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| Sweating It Out | |
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| The First Christmas | |
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| Message From the House of the Winds | |
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| Dancing the Rice | |
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| To Know by Heart: Saulte St. Marie, October 1989 | |
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| Light a Candle | |
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| The Pacific Dawn | |
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| Oh, Just Call Me an Indian | |
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| Norman, Oklahoma, 07:VII:92 | |
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| Genesis: Coyote Talks! | |
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| Pow Wow | |
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| Blue Horses Running | |
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| Returning the Gift | |
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| Hawai'i | |
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| Chant of Lamentation | |
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| Owning Difference | |
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| Nothing to Give | |
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| An Onondaga Trades with a Woman Who Sings with a Mayan Tongue | |
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| The Dolphin Walking Stick | |
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| The Fox Paw and Coyote Blessing | |
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| From the Front of the Fourth World | |
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| Ancient Rain | |
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| Pollen-Old-Woman | |
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| Chumash Country | |
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| Sentinel Robins | |
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| Canoe Circle | |
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| Volcano and Kiwi | |
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| Wherever in Winter | |
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| Reparations | |
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| Driving North Poems | |
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| The Luminaries of the Humble | |
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| Wish-xam | |
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| Warm Springs River | |
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| Back in Those Days | |
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| X Mas 92 | |
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| Pulling Down the Clouds | |
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| [Words Cannot Speak Your Power] | |
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| About the Contributors | |
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| Writers Attending the Returning the Gift Festival | |
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