An American Sunrise: poems

Prologue -- Map of the Trail of Tears --

Break My Heart --

My grandfather Monahwee --

Exile of Memory --

Granddaughters --

The Fight --

Directions to You --

Seven Generations --

In 1990 a congress --

Weapons, --

The Story Wheel --

Once I looked at the moon --

Washing My Mother's Body --

There is a map --

Rising and Falling --

The Road to Disappearance --

Mama and Papa Have the Going Home Shiprock Blues --

My great-grandfather Monahwee --

How to Write a Poem in a Time of War --

Mvskoke Mourning Song --

First Morning --

Singing Everything --

Falling from the Night Sky --

Our knowledge is based --

For Earth's Grandsons --

Running --

A Refuge in the Smallest of Places --

I'm Nobody! Who Are You? --

Bourbon and Blues --

My Great-Aunt Ella Monahwee Jacobs's Testimony --

Road --

The Southeast was covered --

Desire's Dog --

Dawning --

Honoring --

My Man's Feet --

"I Wonder What You Are Thinking" --

Fot Those Who Would Govern --

Rabbit Invents the Saxophone --

When Adolfe Sax patented --

Let There Be No Regrets --

Advice for Countries, Advanced, Developing and Falling --

Tobacco Origin Story --

My aunt Lois Harjo told me --

Redbird Love --

We follow the DNA spiral of stories --

Becoming Seventy --

Beyond --

Ren-Toh-Pvrv --

Memory Sack --

Every night --

Cehotosakvtes --

One March --

By the Way --

When we made it down last year --

Welcoming Song --

An American Sunrise --

Bless This Land --

Acknowledgements