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Some Like Indians Endure

Paula Gunn Allen
Published online: 20 Oct 2008.

To cite this article: Paula Gunn Allen (1996) Some Like Indians Endure, Journal of
Lesbian Studies, 1:1, 9-9, DOI: 10.1300/J155v01n01_02

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dykes remind me of Indians

like Indians dykes
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are supposed to die out

or forget
or drink all the time
or shatter
or go away
to nowhere
to remember
what will happen
if they dont
they dont
anyay
even though it
happens
and they remember
they dont
because the moon remembers
because so does the sun
because so do the stars
remember
and the persistent stubborn
grass
of the earth
Paula Gunn Allen

Some Like Indians Endure from Living the Spirit (co-ordinated by W.

Roscoe) pp. 9-13, St. Martins Press, 1988. All rights revert to the author upon
publication. Reprinted by permission of the author.
[Haworth co-indexing entry note]: Some Like Indians Endure. Allen, Paula Gunn. Co-published
sitnultaneously in Joiiianl oflesbian S/i/dies (The Haworth Press, Inc.) Vol. I, No. I , 1997, p. 9; and:
Classics in Lesbian Sfitdies ( e d Esther D. Rothbium) The Haworth Press, Inc., 1997, p. 9;and Clas.yics
in Lesbian Studies (ed Esther D. Rothblutn) Harrington Park Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press,
Inc., 1997, p. 9.
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