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Hotchkiss Poems - Poems about Hotchkiss


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
Premium Member 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



Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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




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