title: American Indian Poetry: An Anthology of Songs and Chants
author: George W. Cronyn
description: hed in 1918, American Indian Poetry is a pioneer work of remarkable authenticity. Filled with pieces collected from Native Americans in their own languages and translated by leading scholars and poets of the day, it was the first book to give their oral verse its palce as an essential, vibrant part of North American literature. These songs and chants, ancient and modern, speak to the power and poignancy of ordinary life and to the deeply mystical. These are cries from a people at one with both spirit and earth, for all the world to hear and includes works from the major tribes from the Southeast to the Northwest Coast.
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  American Indian Myth Poems
  
  
    
    
  [ THE CITIES OF WHITE MEN  
    
  ](American%20Indian%20Myth%20Poems_split_001.html#filepos3166)[ THE BLIZZARD  
    
  ](American%20Indian%20Myth%20Poems_split_001.html#filepos3868)[ THE WET GRASS
  OF MORNING  
    
  ](American%20Indian%20Myth%20Poems_split_001.html#filepos5219)[ MIRAGE  
    
  ](American%20Indian%20Myth%20Poems_split_001.html#filepos5993)[ THE GREAT DRUM  
    
  ](American%20Indian%20Myth%20Poems_split_001.html#filepos6779)[ THE ORIGIN OF
  DEATH  
    
  ](American%20Indian%20Myth%20Poems_split_001.html#filepos7535)[ THE SUN'S LAST
  RAY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # American Indian Myth Poems
  
  
  ### Hartley Alexander
  
  
  
  
  
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  * THE CITIES OF WHITE MEN 
  
  
  * THE BLIZZARD
  
  
  * THE WET GRASS OF MORNING 
  
  
  * MIRAGE 
  
  
  * THE GREAT DRUM
  
  
  * THE ORIGIN OF DEATH 
  
  
  * THE SUN'S LAST RAY
  
  
  
  
  
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