Arikara Poems - Poems about Arikara

...IV. It was two years later, at age nineteen, Reid was out checking new traps in a pond, just his routine, when he heard a loud shout, ran for his rifle, what was going on? He raced through the......Read the rest...

...II. They did not use Reid Gibson that kindly as they drove him swiftly on up the trail, when he fell behind or misunderstood the two would both strike him without fail. Was he to be held for a......Read the rest...

...I. When he was born he was named Reid Gibson, and his parents weren’t the richest of folk, didn’t have money to buy land back east, so off to the great frontier they did go. This was way back ......Read the rest...

...We briefly meet the Mandan Chief Big White in the village center where the animals are sacraficed, couples wed, and disputes are dealt with, he is a massive, and portly man and is wearing a headd......Read the rest...

...6 miles up river Arikara are encountered, they are a people of amenable disposition and are agrarians, they chuckle with sympathy as we inform them of our grizzly confrontation and they tell us th......Read the rest...

...The river smells like damp cotton this morning, the weather has been so complimentary to our exertions frost invades the nights nicely and soft sunshine comforts our faces in daytime, we have been......Read the rest...

... I like many others have lived in our dreams In this world where I lived amongst forests and streams Where the Great Plains stretched and our rivers flowed If you could see through my eye......Read the rest...