Yellow Hair
By: Wayne Brown
To Montana territory
With Sitting Bull we have gone
Come not here
Come not here, white eyes
We run no more
Lakota and Northern Cheyenne
No longer on the reservation land
We claim our due
We claim our due, white eyes
We run no more
Greasy Grass Creek
Custer’s 7th Cavalry rides its bank
We fear you not
We fear you not, yellow hair
We run no more
Rifles at ready
Custer signals the attack
Kill them
Kill them all, kill yellow hair
We run no more
Stand and fight
Blood spilling on the ground
Slay the army
Slay the army, kill yellow hair
We run no more
Quiet solitude
Dead soldiers on the ground
Take their scalps
Take their scalps, take the yellow hair
We run no more
Little Big Horn
Bloody scalps on poles do hang
Our last stand
Your last stand, white eyes
We run no more, run no more
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Comments
AUTHOR@Onedrop89...Thank you. I wanted to feel the frustration and resolve of the Indians who finally decided that it was time to stand and fight...and fight they did much to the surprise of General Armstrong Custer who had remarked that there were not enough Indians in the whole world to whip the 7th Cavalry. Maybe not in the whole world...but surely at the Little Big Horn. Thanks much! WB
Powerful piece..Death to those who disturbed the natural order
- AUTHOR
Wow! Thank you SilverGenes! That's just about the best thing anybody ever said about one of my poems. Thank you for taking the time to read it and comment! WB
Wow - this is powerful and disturbing, as it should be. It brought to mind a film I saw years ago that haunted me - A Man Called Horse. This poem evokes some of the same images in my mind. This is one FINE poem!
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Greed drives men to evil things, Ken. Let's hope we don't get there too soon again. Thanks for the read and the good words! WB
Custer was arrogant and egocentric and self-centered he thought he was invincible until he was struck down and his yellow hair no more. You can push a people only so far before they turn on you, it's said the way cultures are treated by the white invaders. Invasions of countries always decimates it's inhabitants. The Spaniards did the same to the Aztecs, very sad indeed. Wayne your poetry is flowing so well and your improving by the day, keep it flowing my friend, I love to read it. I rate it UP>> yippy yi oh kyee.
Great hub, cowboy! Thanks for share about the spirit to "shoot". I hope this world always peace forever. Without war and gun. Thank you very much.
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Very true, Petra...it is an ugly chapter of the history of America...the white man at the height of greed. WB
What has happened to the Natives Indians as the bullies marched on is another American Tragedy never resolved and never appoligized for.
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Sure do, CC...that song still gives me a laugh. You know Custer is quoted saying "There are not enough Indians in the world to whip the 7th Cavalry." Well, in the famous words of Gomer Pyle, "Surprise, Surprise" Well goll-lee, Sgt Carter" Thanks Charlie, WB
Reminds me of that old song 'Please Mr. Custer, I don't wanna go.' Do you remember that one?
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Yes, Tom...I think we let them stay until we saw value in the land. We pushed them out of the Dakotas as soon as gold was discovered in the Black Hills. Between the Native Americans and the buffalo...we did a number on them. Thanks for the read! WB
Wayne,
I believe we pushed the native Americans beyond their ability to take anymore or survive on the scrubby land we put them on.
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Thanks for the read, Billy. Just trying to hone my poetry skills! WB
Wayne a great ode to the Last Stand. Thanks for sharing :)
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