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  2. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep - Wikipedia

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    Kansas native Clare Harner (1909–1977) first published "Immortality" in the December 1934 issue of poetry magazine The Gypsy [1] and was reprinted in their February 1935 issue. It was written shortly after the sudden death of her brother. Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri.

  3. Cherokee funeral rites - Wikipedia

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    The intensity of the expression of grief was determined by the circumstances of the death. [1] On the first night after the death, the family was invited to the town council house where they were greeted and consoled by other community members. Then, the family would either return home or stay while the community performed a solemn dance. [1]

  4. Obituary poetry - Wikipedia

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    Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America .

  5. The Song of Hiawatha - Wikipedia

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    The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman.

  6. Minnehaha - Wikipedia

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    The Death of Minnehaha is a frequent subject for paintings. Minnehaha Falls and her death scene inspired themes in the New World Symphony by Antonín Dvořák. [2] Longfellow's poem was set in a cantata trilogy, The Song of Hiawatha in 1898–1900 by the African-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Longfellow's poem also inspired Hugo Kaun ...

  7. Duane Niatum - Wikipedia

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    Niatum established himself as one of the most influential promoters of Native American poetry when he served as editor of a Native American author series at Harper & Row Publishers, where he edited two influential anthologies: Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry (1975) and Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry (1988).

  8. James Welch (writer) - Wikipedia

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    Welch’s poems are alert, sorrowful, and true. [21] His only collection of poetry, Riding the Earthboy 40 (1971), is deeply ingrained in the steppe of Montana. Shortened but expressive, the poems arrive in an instant of thought or experience that handles seasons, animals, and the stories that reservation Native Americans tell. [22]

  9. Joseph Bruchac - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Bruchac (born October 16, 1942) is an American writer and storyteller based in New York.. He writes about Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a particular focus on northeastern Native American lives and folklore.

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