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<br />SWEET MEDICINE
<br />A Colbb\.Jratl\"t' Poem
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<br />Down from Denver
<br />Dovm to Kio",..a Count}'
<br />And Into Kiowa country
<br />Anciem cOlwnw\.xxls, gnarled jumpers
<br />P,J.itie gras."CS. sweet sage
<br />Cover dry cracked plams.
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<br />Snl\.Il~~hl' GllDH 1'1'
<br />\\e frn:oura~<' ;,ubml~' .'n, "I unglml ':""l" IK'n.flCu,'n.
<br />p..'lCIl')' .mdIOf phol<'graph:; 1,>[ "!,IT \"":6 Jep.inmo:nl 1i~<J<h,..un'
<br />rn..,g;tzlM pubh~~ <'n.' [, IW" ,..1""lIL>rL~ "r "I".lll'-e Wt',-k In (;h.:h
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<br />\Olt~ IS J f<>rum ;<'f C"I,'r~tLru. to <;re:lJJ\"dy explt'5o> thell
<br />l1'b\lonsrup 1(l "ut "'''let IeQllfCC; .'\:;;J. ht~raf'" MId anl>lIC outlet,
<br />wt..re k.....,km~ k,r "'1."U~".rleJ,.1Ild prder<ihl)' unpublished wmk
<br />l.uc"u}' ~llbml~'l<'n> should I'll'll t,,,;eW ~l.t(lj) ,"'ords
<br />lon~cr pl"~r:s. m<lY Ix ,,(m~u.lcTl:J. but may R'qUlTl: wltmg Photo
<br />iUbm~IOfl>. ~d h.> indmk p"'ntnall ca.plwn mlOmYlion
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<br />Down 287. past Kit Carson
<br />Mist tan yeols: ~hsts of Death
<br />VIsion of pas!..
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<br />\\'i;-Slem v.inds whisper:
<br />Eroded sand dunes
<br />Sad songs
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<br />Vencmous veha:
<br />Look! On ridge~
<br />Coiled for
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<br />White .\melope unfolds
<br />\\'hite !lag of surrendo:::r,
<br />History rCC"{"l1ls
<br />In minds tlf visitors.
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<br />Frozen moon tOuches
<br />Soul of
<br />Bloody rivers now
<br />MI~f)' JL h.md:
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<br />White Anlclopt
<br />Death Song:
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<br />Skulls Sl..:lre skyward
<br />Look! SIT!
<br />And bt-yond:
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<br />Sun rises red
<br />~lochi:
<br />Buffal~) Calf \\'oman:
<br />"] \\:1ll be ~ warrior'
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<br />Tsis Tsis Ta;;-
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<br />lHadhn~: nHn' un a cominuing bhi.
<br />Artl<:k~ 0' dip!;.! phot:~ m;ty be $Ubminl"<i 10
<br />I1llo@c:N.t_Ng
<br />Pnnl ~l1hmil;.".~ shoolJ bt m.1ill"d !O
<br />t~~nSm~I.Sutl~410
<br />Denvn CO fI020l
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<br />of past_
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<br />Shi ....hl kneh won res
<br />Blue ,make:
<br />Anack\
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<br />If dcs;,red. j'Io::o..o;e mcrn ;0 ~Jf-addl't.~ ~J"'!d mv~lope
<br />(%E) ""10 t'l'K1Ugl1 ~"W' lor us 10 n:lum your T1l;lI~1Wb 10 you
<br />~ WTTlcr !clail\._ 1m- cl'rliflglll a.nd. ItKrdol'l', lhe np1l1O
<br />fl"fotUorrcpad<agelhtOng1n.U !Il.lnuscnplIOd!l<.lIhClpan)'ahcr
<br />pubh(all()l'l m Hrodw<l(ct'S map;:II'}e, Thr nghllO Tt1lubhsh the
<br />cdnro mal'H.lSCnpllfl a M.l~=1 anthology or on [lit ColoradQ
<br />FoundollOfl for W,iler Edu(alion wd;ISIIC IS n:lalTlcd b)' Color:KIo
<br />Found"llOTlj<)rW~le; Educati.on.
<br />W,th phowgraphs, CF\'.'E e.v:n:~ 'OOC'-umc' or "f1f'51 <;enar
<br />nghu., both ofwJlII:nmdude l!lenght 10 r"pnnl [he pho!o(as
<br />cxi~i\;,Ili>' lI!Cdl for ffi3n.:rllrlll and promouonal purposn, !.U<:h >IS
<br />.15 (If 00 Tho:: CoIOOOl FOT.,nWoll<m for Waler EdllC3.tlOIl wl"h;,t.:,
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<br />The Land
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<br />Massan't.
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<br />sings
<br />"Nothing Uves long. Onlyeanh, only
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<br />mountams remam,
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<br />Seven 6rothcr.-l
<br />Sey.ml
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<br />tenacIOUs Sl $e)'outs,
<br />Smgs! Shouts'
<br />And a wamor I ....11l remam t"urc'..~r~
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<br />\1is~of de.nh
<br />people wno Wi'rl.' precursors of the
<br />Cheyenne
<br />th(' white man
<br />sn.lkt'
<br />the seven :Mars in [he Big Oippel
<br />the pla~ of the dead
<br />spims
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<br />Written bv lw'-'l Romero and $w'dnlls in [[hnie literature
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<br />C1as,s Eleventh and Twelfth Grades. T1'3Cher: Kathleen
<br />Kelleh..-r, North High SchooL Ikn\'l'r, Colorado
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<br />FirSl Place, Colorado River ofWoros 2004,
<br />High School Dl',ision
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<br />Edlk'r'\ NQu: TIlt lB.f5 map lj Johll C FrrmQn(s \11""'" )ram
<br />Indt'Pfnacncr, ,\fl5Wllrt W Iht' G;Cu! DivWr in OJlc,raJ., snm.-:s ~ FrOn!
<br />Rall!:t ]rom 1,l,YQmmg 10 No.' ,\fdlallls hrmg tnhabwd ry Ok' ~~"
<br />Al'UpIlh.x, Chtytllllr, Comllnclk....and KiOWlJllldlaM
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<br />Tran..lalioll of Indian Words
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<br />TSIS Tsis TilS
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<br />-stvmBl'OIhers"
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<br />COLORADO F'OUNDATION F'OR WATE:R EOUCATlON
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