Primary Texts and Translations
Places to start from the collection below:
Abhay Flavian Xaxa, "I am not your data" -- defiant poem of resistance to external definition and description. Assertion of Adivasi identity
Anuj Lugun, "Adivasi" -- poem expressing deep connection to nature, separate from artifical labels
Anuj Lugun, "Red Indians, Once Again" -- poem comparing the experience of Native American people encountering European settlers to Indian Adivasis.
Nirmala Putul, "Santhal Division" -- poem about the economic and cultural impoverishment of an Adivasi community
Nirmala Putul, "About Adivasi Girls" -- poem about the tension between authentic folk culture and external misrepresentations
Vandana Tete, "Revolutionaries" -- biting satirical poem about the decline of revolutionary rhetoric, selling out, government sponsorships...
Mahadev Toppo, "I am a poet of the forest..." -- ecological poem ("I plant trees and poetry too...")
Materials available online elsewhere:
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, "Joga" (English)
Jacinta Kerketta, Profile and Selected Poems
Five poems by Mamang Dai (English)
Nirmala Putul, "Mountain Child"
Ushakiran Atram, "Jarwa Women" (Hindi and English versions of a poem about objectification of Tribal women's bodies)