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Introduction | |
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Going for the Rain | |
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Prologue | |
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The First: The Preparation | |
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The Creation, According to Coyote | |
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Forming Child | |
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Four Poems for a Child Son | |
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The Expectant Father | |
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To Insure Survival | |
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Language | |
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Four Bird Songs | |
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Time and Motion and Space | |
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Buck Nez | |
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The Poet | |
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My Father's Song | |
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Two Women | |
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Poem for Jody About Leaving | |
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The Second: Leaving | |
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Toward Spider Springs | |
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Arrival in Sudden Seaside Fog This Morning | |
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Blues Song for the Phoenix Bus Depot Derelict | |
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Many Farms Notes | |
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Old Hills | |
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21 August '71 Indian | |
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Small Things Today | |
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Travels in the South | |
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Relocation | |
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Busride Conversation | |
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Portrait of a Poet with a Console TV in Hand | |
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Surprise | |
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Early Morning | |
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Making an Acquaintance | |
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Without You | |
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The Poems I Have Lost | |
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How Close | |
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Last Night | |
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Today, the A-Train, 168th to 14th | |
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Hunger in New York City | |
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Traveled All the Way to New York City | |
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For Those Sisters and Brothers in Gallup | |
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Evening Beach Walk | |
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A Patience Poem for the Child That Is Me | |
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The Third: Returning | |
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The Wisconsin Horse | |
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A Barroom Fragment | |
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Four Years Ago | |
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Horizons and Rains | |
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Leaving America | |
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Washyuma Motor Hotel | |
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Passing Through Little Rock | |
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Sometimes It's Better to Laugh, "Honest Injun" | |
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Missing That Indian Name of Roy or Ray | |
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Crossing the Colorado River into Yuma | |
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Valley of the Sun | |
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A Dying Warrior | |
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I Told You I Like Indians | |
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The Significance of a Veteran's Day | |
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To and Fro | |
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Fragment | |
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Notes on the Steps of the San Diego Bus Depot | |
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East of San Diego | |
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Crow | |
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Returned from California | |
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Pain | |
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Wind and Glacier Voices | |
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Albuquerque Back Again: 12/6/74 | |
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East of Tucumcari | |
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Watching You | |
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Bend in the River | |
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The Fourth: The Rain Falls | |
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Earth Woman | |
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Spreading Wings on Wind | |
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For Nanao | |
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The Boy and Coyote | |
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My Children, and a Prayer for Us | |
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Four Deetseyamah Poems | |
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My Mother and My Sisters | |
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What Joy Said on Two Occasions | |
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Juanita, Wife of Manuelito | |
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A Pretty Woman | |
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Bony | |
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Two Acoma Pictures | |
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For Rainy's Book | |
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A Deer Dinner | |
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A Snowy Mountain Song | |
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Yuusthiwa | |
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Hawk | |
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Buzzard | |
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Dry Root in a Wash | |
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Curly Mustache, 101-Year-Old Navajo Man | |
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Four Rains | |
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Morning Star | |
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A Story of How a Wall Stands | |
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For Joy to Leave Upon | |
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It Doesn't End, Of Course | |
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A Good Journey | |
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Preface | |
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Telling | |
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Telling About Coyote | |
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They Come Around, The Wolves - And Coyote and Crow, Too | |
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Hesperus Camp, July 13, Indian 1971 | |
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Brothers and Friends | |
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A San Diego Poem: January-February 1973 | |
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The Journey Begins | |
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Shuddering | |
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Under L.A. International Airport | |
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Survival This Way | |
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Like myself, the source of these narratives is my home | |
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And another one | |
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How to make a good chili stew | |
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And there is always one more story | |
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Notes For My Child | |
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Grand Canyon Christmas Eve 1969 | |
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My Children | |
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Speaking | |
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This Magical Thing | |
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Notes for My Child | |
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Earth and Rain, The Plants and Sun | |
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Pout | |
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Burning River | |
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A Morning Prayer and Advice for a Rainbowdaughter | |
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Canyon de Chelly | |
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Baby Bird Prayers for My Children, Raho and Rainy | |
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Between Albuquerque and Santa Fe | |
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Fingers Talking in the Wind | |
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Like Mississippi | |
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A New Mexico Place Name | |
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Back into the Womb, The Center | |
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A Birthday Kid Poem | |
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How Much He Remembered | |
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Woman, This Indian Woman | |
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Watching Salmon Jump | |
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Some Indians at a Party | |
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Places We Have Been | |
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Vada's in Cuba, New Mexico | |
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Northern Maine | |
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Indianhead Bay | |
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Ithaca, New York | |
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Upstate | |
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How Much Coyote Remembered | |
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Morning by a Lakeside in Marion County, S.C. | |
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Woman Dreamer: Slender Oak Woman | |
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Apache Love | |
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Her Story About Saving Herself | |
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Two Coyote Ones | |
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Will Come Forth in Tongues and Fury | |
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A Designated National Park | |
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Long House Valley Poem | |
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Blessings | |
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Irish Poets on Saturday and an Indian | |
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Ten O'clock News in the American Midwest | |
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Grants to Gallup, New Mexico | |
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The following words... | |
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"And The Land Is Just As Dry" | |
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Vision Shadows | |
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Heyaashi Guutah | |
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Time to Kill in Gallup | |
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For Our Brothers: Blue Jay, Gold Finch, Flicker, Squirrel | |
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"The State's claim..." | |
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Railroads | |
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Electric Lines | |
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Gas Lines | |
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Highways | |
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Phone Company | |
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Cable TV | |
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Right of Way | |
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I Tell You Now | |
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Waking | |
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My Father Singing | |
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This Occurs to Me | |
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Uncle Jose | |
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That Time | |
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When It Was Taking Place | |
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Poems from the Veterans Hospital | |
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8:50 AM Ft. Lyons VAH | |
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Two Old Men | |
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Damn Hard | |
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Cherry Pie | |
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Teeth | |
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Traveling | |
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Superchief | |
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Along the Arkansas River | |
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Looking, Looking | |
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For a Taos Man Heading South | |
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I Tell You Now | |
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Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land | |
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Mid-America Prayer | |
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Too Many Sacrifices | |
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It Was That Indian | |
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Indians Sure Came in Handy | |
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Starting at the Bottom | |
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Ray's Story | |
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Affirmative Action | |
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Crazy Gook Indians | |
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Out to Tsaile Lake | |
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The First Hard Core | |
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To Change in a Good Way | |
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Final Solution: Jobs, Leaving | |
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Stuff: Chickens and Bombs | |
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That's the Place Indians Talk About | |
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We Have Been Told Many Things but We Know This to Be True | |
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What I Mean | |
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Mama's and Daddy's Words | |
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Returning It Back, You Will Go On | |
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This Song: Beating The Heartbeat | |
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It Will Come; It Will Come | |
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No More Sacrifices | |
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Our Homeland, A National Sacrifice Area | |
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A New Story | |