Al Hunter has been many things. He has served as chief of Rainy River First Nations in Ontario and is a member of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty No. 3...

The following poem comes to us from Dennis Tom, Navajo, and for those unfamiliar with types of poetry we'll point out that it's a sestina -- an originally-Italian poetic form that ...

The following poem comes to us from Dawn Karima Pettigrew, a writer, educator and radio host (for more details on her, see the biographical information that follows the poem)...

April is National Poetry Month, an annual celebration of verse initiated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996...

April is National Poetry Month, and all month long we'll be bringing you a selection of works by poets, both established and new, from Indian country...

The word poetry can evoke echoes of everything from Shakespearean sonnets to minimalist Japanese haiku...

Poetry has long both reflected and guided Native experience, starting with oral communication down through the generations...

Janet Marie Rogers, Mohawk and Tuscarora, is the Poet Laureate of Victoria, BC, and a contributor to ICTMN -- for more of her work, visit her ICTMN archive here ...

I Nub of human, shell pink fingernail, whether you live or all unformed leave her body she will never be without you. This, scientists tell us, is literally true: . . ...

Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence is on a hunger strike since December 11, not far from the front door of Canada’s Parliament perhaps the most visible symbol of the newest trans bo...