Abstract
2 7 6 WAL 3 7 . 2 SUMM ER 2 0 0 2 food on many tables” (74). Addressed to “certain governors and presidents” who have forgotten that the wealth of the nation was built on the labor of Native people as well as immigrants, the poem is a reminder of“what we owed/ the peo ple we had used to kill” (71, 73). By the final chapter, “Indian Survival, Seven: After Sand Creek,” Revard’s poetic voice has become a communal one; the book closes with “A Song That We Still Sing,” a Ponca “Victory Song” sung at the Sand Creek Massacre, in the face of death. Hearing it in the mins of an old fort, Revard’s Ponca cousins “. . . recognized, that song. It’s one / that
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