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This path our people walked<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
one hundred two hundred endless years<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
since the tall grass opened for us<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
and we breathed the incense that sun on prairie<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
offers to sky<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Peace offering with each breath<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
each footstep out of woods<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
to grasslands plotted with history<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
removal remediation restoration<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Peace flag of fringed prairie orchid<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
green glow within white froth<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
calling a moth who nightly<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
seeks the now-rare scent invisible to us<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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invisible history of this place<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
where our great-grandfather a boy<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
beside two priests and 900 warriors<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
gaze intent in an 1870 photo <br style="box-sizing:border-box">
his garments white as orchids<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Peace flag white banner with red cross<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
crowned with thorns held by a boy <br style="box-sizing:border-box">
at the elbow of a priest <br style="box-sizing:border-box">
beside Ojibwe warriors beside Dakota warriors<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Peace offered after smoke and dance<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
and Ojibwe gifts of elaborate beaded garments<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
thrown back in refusal <br style="box-sizing:border-box">
by Dakota Warriors <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic">torn with grief </em><br style="box-sizing:border-box">
since their brother’s murder<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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This is the path our people ran<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
through white flags of prairie plants<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
Ojibwe calling Dakota back<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
to sign one last and unbroken treaty<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Peace offering with each breath<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
each footstep out of woods<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
to grasslands plotted with history<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
removal remediation restoration<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Two Dakota <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic">held up as great men</em><br style="box-sizing:border-box">
humbled themselves<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
to an offer of peace<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
before a long walk south<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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before our people entered the trail<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
walking west and north<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
where you walk now<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
where we seek the source<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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the now-rare scent<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
invisible as history<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
history the tall grass opens for us<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
Breathe the incense of sun on prairie<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
Offer peace to the sky</p>
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The following activities and questions are designed to help your students use their noticing skills to move through the poem and develop their thinking about its meaning with confidence, using what they’ve noticed as evidence for their interpretations. <strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold"><a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail20.com/t/y-l-kiutqt-tlqtrlrly-q/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important;font-weight:inherit!important" target="_blank">Read more about the framework upon which these activities are based</a>.</strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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<strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">Warm-Up</strong> <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic">(pair share)</em>: Make a list of different gestures and symbols that make you think of peace. Share your lists with a partner.</li>
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<strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">Before Reading the Poem </strong><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic">(individual writing)</em>: What, specifically, do you notice in the photograph from the North Country National Scenic Trail? What is
the photograph of? What colors do you see? What perspective is the photograph taken from? Can you imagine a place where the trail might be leading? How might going down this trail make you feel? Why?</li>
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<strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">Small-group Discussion</strong>: Share what you’ve noticed, imagined, and felt with your group members. Do you all agree, or do you have different interpretations?</li>
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<strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">Listening to the Poem</strong> <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic">(enlist two volunteers to read the poem aloud)</em>: Listen as the poem is read aloud and write down any additional words and phrases
that jump out at you.</li>
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<strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">Small-group Discussion</strong>: Share what you noticed from reading and hearing the poem. How is the poem structured? Why do you think the poet structured it this way? Is any part of the poem repeated, perhaps with slight changes? Why might the poet have repeated these words?</li>
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<strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">Whole-class Discussion</strong>: How does the structure of the poem relate to its content? How does it relate to the photograph of the trees? What is the history recounted in this poem? What in the poem tells you this? How does the image of the tall grass make you feel at the beginning of the poem, and do you feel differently when the image is repeated at the end?</li>
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<strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">Extension for grades 11-12</strong>: It is possible to look at the two sides of the poem “Peace Path” as two separate poems or as two halves of the same story. How might these be seen as two separate poems? What are the similarities and differences between the stories they tell? If you look at the two sections as part of one poem, how do they interact with each other in content and structure?</li>
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Heid E. Erdrich grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, she is the author of several poetry collections, including<em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic"> Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems </em>(University of Arizona Press, 2012). She is also the editor of the anthology <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic">New Poets of Native Nations </em>(Graywolf Press, 2018). Erdrich lives in Minnesota.</p>
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About this poem, Heid E. Erdrich writes, “The North Country Trail leaves Minnesota and heads toward Fort Abercrombie just above my hometown—Wahpeton, North Dakota. This poem envisions the tallgrass prairie as I have seen last remaining swaths of it in areas of the trail. The poem depicts events that took place when the grassland was unbroken and when our great-grandfather, Keesh-ke-mun-ishiw/Joseph Gourneau, serving as an altar boy and standard bearer for a Catholic priest, was photographed at Fort Abercrombie in 1870. The path the North Country Trail traces from the Lake Superior shore through the North Dakota grasslands, maps the migration of my Ojibwe ancestors as they moved, and were removed, from their territories as treaties decreed. For me, and for other Native Americans, a map of the trail tells a specific story, one of tribal history. The Grasslands stand as an emblem of peace
for me—the hush of wind in tall grasses, the surprise of wild roses and rare lilies, the open faces of sunflowers in fields, the prairie potholes where water is </p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div>