Who is Emily Pauline Johnson

Emily Pauline Johnson (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake (pronounced dageh-eeon-wageh, literally 'double-life'), was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her father was a hereditary Mohawk chief of mixed ancestry and her mother was an English immigrant.Johnson—whose poetry was published in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain—was among a generation of widely-read writers who began to define Canadian literature. She was a key figure in the construction of the field as an institution and has made an indelible mark on Indigenous women's writing and performance as a whole.

Johnson was notable for her poems, short stories, and performances that celebrated her mixed-r...
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  • The Riders Of The Plains [1]
    Who is it lacks the knowledge? Who are the curs that dare
    To whine and sneer that they do not fear the whelps in the Lion's lair?
    But we of the North will answer, while life in the North remains,
    Let the curs beware lest the whelps they dare are the Riders of the Plains; ...
  • The Sleeping Giant
    (THUNDER BAY, LAKE SUPERIOR)

    When did you sink to your dreamless sleep
    Out there in your thunder bed? ...
  • Golden - Of The Selkirks
    A trail upwinds from Golden;
    It leads to a land God only knows,
    To the land of eternal frozen snows,
    That trail unknown and olden. ...
  • Prairie Greyhounds
    C.P.R. "NO. 1," WESTBOUND

    I swing to the sunset land -
    The world of prairie, the world of plain, ...
  • Through Time And Bitter Distance"[1]
    Unknown to you, I walk the cheerless shore.
    The cutting blast, the hurl of biting brine
    May freeze, and still, and bind the waves at war,
    Ere you will ever know, O! Heart of mine, ...
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Night 36 Long 33 Wild 27 Heart 25 Sweet 23 Love 22 God 22 Face 22 Voice 22 Wind 22


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Poetrysoup_: late cranes with heavy wing, and lazy flight, sail up the silence with the nearing night. and like a spirit, swathed in some soft veil, steals twilight and its shadows o’er the swale. / emily pauline johnson
Angelhamilton8: one-woman musical tells story of ‘poetic princess of the mohawks’ emily pauline johnson
Rodjnaquin: marshlands by emily pauline johnson
Roy_wallen: the cedar trees have sung their vesper hymn, and now the music sleeps-- its benediction falling where the dim dusk of the forest creeps. emily pauline johnson, also known as tekahionwake, born on this date in 1861
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Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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