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E. Pauline Johnson

1861–1913

E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake, 1861–1913) was a Mohawk-English Canadian poet and performer, born on the Six Nations reserve near Brantford, Ontario.

Her best-known collection is The White Wampum (1895); the poems here predate it. One of the poets chosen by W. D. Lighthall for Songs of the Great Dominion (London, 1889), an anthology of Canadian verse.

Poems (9)

  1. In the Shadows
  2. At the Ferry
  3. The Song My Paddle Sings
  4. The Cattle Country
  5. Harvest Time
  6. Guard of the Eastern Gate
  7. Lullaby of the Iroquois
  8. At Husking Time
  9. The Vagabonds

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