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Poetry and Songs by Native Americans
 

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spacerwhat the informant said to Franz Boas in 1920


Long ago her mother
had to sing this song and so
she had to grind along with it.
The corn people have a song too.
It is very good

I refuse to tell it.


Keresan


Franz Boas (1858-1942) was a famous American Anthropogist, and the first professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. These words were told to him by a Native American he was interviewing from the a Keresan tribe of Northern California.

Franz Boas, "Keresan Texts", Publications of the American Ethnological Society, Vol 8, 1928
reprinted in Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americasedited by Jerome Rothenberg, 1972











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