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I'm going to skip around
in this as I go along.

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"Carriers of the Dream
Wheel" is another recent poem

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also in this general
category of things

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which reflect Indian oral
tradition in which I'm

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particularly interested.

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Harper and Row is a
published-- will publish

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this collection of poems.

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And that house has taken on
a program for the publication

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of American Indian writing
of which this book will not

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be a part by the way.

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But they have now published
three things, I think,

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in that program including
"Seven Arrows" which some of you

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know, "Ascending
Red Cedar Moon",

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which is a collection of
Duane Needham's poems,

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and recently a novel
by James Welch.

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I think that's
just now come out.

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The fourth book in the
program will be an anthology

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of contemporary Indian poetry.

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And I will have some
selections in it.

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And I think the
title of the book

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is to be "Carriers
of the Dream Wheel".

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"This is the wheel
of dreams, which

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is carried on their voices by
means of which their voices

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turn and center upon being.

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It encircles the First
World, this powerful wheel.

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They shape their
songs upon the wheel

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and spin the names
of the Earth and sky.

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The Aboriginal names.

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They are old men or men who
are old in their voices.

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And they carry the wheel among
the camps saying, come, come,

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let us tell the old stories.

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Let us sing the sacred songs."

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