What is the theme in For the White poets who would be Indian by Wendy Rose?

Nature is another theme in the poem. Feelings of community with nature and regarding the earth as "mother" are not unusual in American Indian culture, and it is common for expressions of it to show up in the work of Indian writers. Although Rose's "For the White poets who would be Indian" is more heavily laden with the theme of white shamanism, it still speaks to the closeness and oneness this poet feels toward the natural world. Even in her angry and sarcastic remarks to non-Native American writers, she uses metaphors that draw from nature and that reveal her reverence for it in spite of the accusatory makeup of the poem.