Poetry

John Rollin Ridge or "Yellow Bird" (1827 – 1867), a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is considered the first Native American novelist. Ridge was the son of Treaty Party leader John Ridge and the grandson of Major Ridge, longtime Speaker of the Cherokee Nation.

WAKE UP IN RAGE! is an epic prose poem (with 155 verses) of an autobiographical nature. It is in the tradition of poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, celebrating the vitality, wonder, and strangeness of life on Planet Earth.