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Part of a series of pictures depicting Frances Densmore at the Smithsonian Institution in 1916 during a recording session with Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief for the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

For the past ten months I've been featuring a poem a week by a Minnesota poet. I realized recently that I was drawing exclusively from modern poetry, without looking back on our rich literary history.

Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry,

" published by MHS Press. As it turns out, this region's poetry goes back much further than 150 years; 

, with assistance from Robert Higheagle, translated song-poems of the Sioux and Chippewa.

The trailing light slipped from her paddle blade.

- "In Her Canoe," a Chippewa song-poem translated by Frances Densmore, with assistance from Robert Higheagle,  as it appears in "Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry," published by MHS Press. Reprinted here with permission from the publisher.

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A dip into the earliest poetry of this land we now call Minnesota.

MN Poetry: Song-poem of the Ojibwe “In Her Canoe”

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