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poem by Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (Boston : I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1790)
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Join the roomOuâbi; or, The Virtues of Nature: An Indian Tale in Four Cantos is a 1790 narrative poem by Sarah Wentworth Morton that tells the tale of a love triangle between two American Indians and one white man. The narrative is one of the first works to use Native American or "Indian" themes in American verse. Morton included many notes about contemporary understandings of Indian councils, war feasts, the Mississippi River, marriage ceremonies, and beliefs about revenge.
