Erasure[violence]
Most notable, upon first descent into Emerson’s poem: he drops the -k. (Perhaps, an attempt to anglicize the word.) In a country amidst an intense manifest destiny campaign of both systematically forcing indigenous peoples from their homelands with great violence and oppression, as well as settling vast tracts of wilderness spaces across open lands of the continent, perhaps it served Emerson well not to draw attention to the deep-rooted history of native peoples in the region he inhabited.
Song Language Music Naming Subjectivity Translation Emerson History Erasure[violence] 427 Child of the Bear Indian Words Intention Rivers Preservation Body[music] Thresholds Dialogues Water Return