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GreenWave

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2. Recall Sand Creek and Washita River

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Jan 23, 2024, 09:59 AM

Jan 2024

that's where the creeks ran red with blood
women, children lying all over
babies dying like dogs in the mud.
...
Sioux and Cheyenne did entail
forts along the Bozeman trail

(Can't remember the rest of this Native American poem, but it is a prelude to Little Big Horn which would be a few years later)

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