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Premium Member BLACKFEET BLESSING
For today’s blessing  I thought it would be neat
to yield my pen to one of the Niitsitapi tribe
We gave them the name Blackfeet:

What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in wintertime.
It is the...

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Categories: blackfeet, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member GNRT DAY 13 TWO MEDICINE LAKE
Today we took a beautiful hike…a journey we wanted to make
through some woods, across a meadow ending up at Two Medicine Lake.

This lake is sacred to the Blackfeet Nation because, as they explain,
it’s one of the few locations in Glacier with its original Blackfeet name.

It...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: blackfeet, native american,
Form: Rhyme

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