James Fraser Poet Rhyme

Last of the Mahican

Eastern Algonquian 
Native American tribe
An Indian of Indians
As history scribes
 
This Muhhekunneuw
People of the river
In the tribes around them
In terror shiver
 
Hudson river warriors
Another tribe chased from their homes
Hounded by horrors
Government clones
 
A few hundred years later
Its really hard to believe
This warrior tribes
Language in cease
 
To die with the others
Its their history that's lost
No intelligence to preserve it
Not the white man's cost
 
Wisconsin settled
With the Munsee
In 200 years time
They'll be here, you'll see
 

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Melody Coster July 5, 2009 at 10:31 AM I truly enjoyed this piece, especially the mention of the Hudson River warriors as that is the river I was born not too far from. I was born in Hudson NY, home to the legend of Sleepy Hollow and other legends of time. My family had a farm in Ghent which was right outside of Hudson along the great Hudson River. My mother use to find Indian arrowheads on our farm.