our lakota chief warned the white man speak the twisting serpent voice calling us sioux (little snakes) & i only a youth eyes see white man rattlesnake medicine for our people took the black hills from us teach the children their customs but we do not parlay for theirs the paiute medicine-man bring us the ghost dance from the ancestors to call back the old the shaman said if we ghost dance the buffalo shall again multiply & the ancestors visit leading us to the land not a war dance but while we danced the pony soldiers still came & killed us like dogs my mother & brother now redden the earth they can not ever stop us from dancing 2.7 10/10 © Brian Peter Hodgkinson
Keeping The Dance
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loisfay
April 16, 2022 at 9:33 pm
I love this 🌿
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Brian Peter Hodgkinson
April 16, 2022 at 9:34 pm
thank you, i am blessed that you do
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