When the last dust settled,
when the last blood spilled,
nearly two hundred lay dead
They were known and peaceful
They were women and children,
Arapaho and Cheyenne
and the murderer
was the U.S. Army
Endless betrayal,
more treaties ignored
in the quest for their land
and the thirst for their heads
The ambushed,
unsuspecting bodies
had suffered the
most vicious deaths
Mutilated, murdered
Scalps, fingers, genitals
taken as trophies
The savage we saw
was simply
our reflection
in the mirror
2 Dec 2019
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