Pale Riders
...Pale Riders
(Not for the under-eighteen crowd, or the faint-hearted.)
Stars and Stripes waved in such bright glory,
over bleeding children's corpses.
the braves were far a...
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Categories:
hotchkiss, history, military, murder, prejudice,
Form: Blank verse
The Genocide At Wounded Knee
...On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians from the Lakota nation
And told them...
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Categories:
hotchkiss, america, death, military, murder,
Form: Narrative
A Historic Event
...In the heart of my heart
I cry for you
in the harbor of my despair
I feel your emptiness
a land once yours was lost
stolen by men whose hearts were cold
and whose greed and hate knew no bounds
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Categories:
hotchkiss, betrayal, conflict, death, native
Form: Free verse
The Black Hills Wept For Thee
...The Black Hills wept for Thee
East of the Black Hills of South Dakota,
On the Pine Ridge Reservation,
Live a proud tribe of Oglala Lakota,
Part of the Great Sioux Nation.
On saddled charge...
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Categories:
hotchkiss, betrayal, blessing, children, december,
Form: Ballad
Wounded Knee
...Historically accurate, narrative poem
29 December, 1890 - At Wounded Knee Creek
A baby cries for its mother slain
and a way of life dies on that frozen plain.
Old Chief Big Foot and his small...
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Categories:
hotchkiss, native american, war,
Form: Narrative