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  Native American Speeches, Poetry, and Songs
 
 

Speeches:

Armstrong, Virginia Irving. I Have Spoken: American History Through the Voices of the Indians. Athens, OH: Swallow Press, 1984.

Vanderworth. American Indian Oratory. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

 

Traditional Poetry and Songs:

Brandon, William. The Magic World: American Indian Songs & Poems. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1991.

Cronyn, George W. American Indian Poetry. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972.

Day, A. Grove. The Sky Clears: Poetry of the American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.

Levitas, Gloria. American Indian Prose & Poetry: We Wait in Darkness. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1974.

Rothenberg, Jerome. Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas. rev. ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.

 

Contemporary Poetry and Writing:

Bruchac, Joseph. Songs From this Earth On Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry. New York: The Greenfield Review Press, 1983. This publisher produces a catalog that lists other Native American poetry. To request a copy, contact: The Greenfield Review Press, 2 Middle Grove Road, Greenfield Center, NY 12833.

Green, Rayna. That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry & Fiction by Native American Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

Lesley, Craig. Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories. New York: Dell Publishing division of Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1991.

 

Prepared by the National Museum of the American Indian,
in cooperation with the Public Inquiry Mail Service,
Smithsonian Institution.

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