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The veteran rancher urges preservation
for the last traces of buffalo jump,
medicine wheel, yellow teepee rings
in parched prairie grass;
where bison thundered
and Sioux hunted, powerlines
and utility company's all-terrain
vehicles menace remains
as the wind on the plains
whispers of Sioux ghosts:
Flights of arrows
flights of eagles
take our land
take our lives
do with them
as you please.
Long-moldering treaties,
forgotten entreaties;
peacepipes smoked,
endless rope-a-dope.
Mortmain or
legerdemain,
whatever you do
don't refrain
don't refrain.
Christopher T. George
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