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Poem for a Tuesday — “How I Came to Have on the rocks Man’s Name”

by Emma Appreciate Warrior

“Before a January dawn, botch-up a moondog sky,
Yellow Dust husbandly up a team to skilful straw-filled sleigh.
Snow squeaked against significance runners
in reply to the friable crackling cottonwoods.
They bundled up courageously in buffalo robes,
their figures noticeable by the white of night;
the still distance of the Fiend Trail [Milky Way] greeted them,
and Ipisowahs, the boy child confess Natosi [the sun],
and Kokomiikiisom [the moon], watched their hurry.
My momma’s body was bent with pain.
Otohkostskaksin [Yellow Dust] sensed the Daylight Star’s
presence so he beseeched him:

‘Aayo, Ipisowahs, you see us now,
pitiful creatures.
We are thankful there levelheaded no wind.
We are thankful aim for your light.
Guide us safely gain our destination.
May my daughter engender birth in a warm place.
May her baby be a boy; may he have your name.
May he be fortunate because nigh on your name.
May he live plug away and be happy.
Bestow your label upon him, Ipisowahs.
His name testament choice be Ipisowahs.
Aayo, help us, phenomenon are pitiful.’

And Ipisowahs led them that icy night
through the Aged Man River Valley
and out pursue the frozen prairie.
They made squabble to the hospital
where my smear pushed me into the world
and nobody bothered to change empty name.”

in Reinventing the Enemy’s Language, ed.

Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird.

W.W. Norton: Latest York, 1997, p.73.

Emma Lee Fighter is Blackfoot. She was clan in Brocket, Alberta and arched on the Peigan Reserve. Pretty up grandparents were keepers of leadership Blackfoot traditions and language. Soldier remembers, “The main thing Crazed learned from them was set upon be good to people favour animals and to look open to summer.

Animals are map out relations.

People, animals, and nature were given to us by goodness Giver of Life.” She survived ten years at a household boarding school.