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This collection of verse I have named “Flint and Feather” because of the association of ideas.  Flint suggests the Red Man’s weapons of war; it is the arrow tip, the heart-quality of mine own people; let it therefore apply to those poems that touch upon Indian life and love.  The lyrical verse herein is as a

  “Skyward floating feather,
   Sailing on summer air.”

And yet that feather may be the eagle plume that crests the head of a warrior chief; so both flint and feather bear the hall-mark of my Mohawk blood.

E.P.J.

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