Native American Poetry
This list of poetry by North American Indigenous poets was created by librarians at The Seattle Public Library. (Created March 2025)
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Cloud Missives
Allen is a Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist.
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(At) Wrist
Poet Atsitty, Diné (Navajo), is Tsénahabiłnii (Sleep Rock People) and born for Ta'neeszahnii (Tangle People).
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Rivers in My Veins
Briggs is a writer and a poet who lives on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington state. She is a Sauk-Suiattle tribal citizen and a descendant of the Yakama Nation.
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Nedí Nezų
Campbell is a Dene and Métis poet and photographer from English River First Nation.
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In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful
Chabitnoy is a Koniag descendant and member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak, Alaska.
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She Falls Again
Deerchild is a Cree writer and poet from the community of O-Pipon-Na-Piwan Cree Nation.
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Heating the Outdoors
Gill is an Ilnu and Québécoise poet.
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Weaving Sundown in A Scarlet Light
The first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate, Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
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Dēmos
Naka-Hasebe Kingsley belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York.
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Rose Quartz
LaPointe is a musician, poet and writer from the Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian Tribe.
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