Apart from the lonely example of Emily Pauline Johnson’s (1861- 1913) works, published poetry by Native American women is a relatively new phenomenon starting in the late 1960s. A survey of 38 anthologies published between 1969 and 1997 rendered a total of 362 names of Native women poets in the USA and Canada, of whom only about 25 are published more continuously. The continuity of life between the forces of colonization and the ensuing struggle for decolonization emerges as an overriding paradigm in their poetry, encompassing topics like history, land, language, forms of geno- and ethnocide, cultural identity, abuses, family and community. New aesthetic strategies and self-determined forms of publication enhance their struggle for decolonization.