Pauline Johnson E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
poet · Six Nations, Ontario, Canada · 1861–1913
A poet born to a Mohawk chief and an English mother. Under the name Tekahionwake she toured Canada and Britain reciting her own poems.
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1892
And up on the hills against the sky, A fir tree rocking its lullaby, Swings, swings, Its emerald wings, Swelling the song that my paddle sings.
"The Song My Paddle Sings," in Flint and Feather
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