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Joy Harjo: An American Sunrise (Paperback, 2019, W. W. Norton & Company)

In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east …

Seven Generations by Joy Harjo

Children play with full bellies At the edge of the mating dance. Beneath a sky thrown open To the need of stars To know themselves against the dark. All night we dance the weave of joy and tears All night we're lit with the sunrise of forever Just ahead of us, through the trees One generation after the other.

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