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e this evening with the smell of wood smoke...For he told us that the yellow moon would v... he would not leave the chosen ones to the buzzards and the soldiers guns ...Oh great father of the Iroquois ever since...I've read the writing of the smoke and breast fed on the sound of drums ...'ve learned to hurl the tomahawk and ride a...To run the gauntlet of the Sioux, to make a ch...The red man's race be s...I go to search for the yellow moon and the fathers of our sons...Where the red sun sinks in the hills of gold and the healing waters run ...Trampling down the prairie rose leaving hoof tracks in the sand ... and it's quiet and the horse soldiers are ...For soon I'll find the yellow moon along w...Where the buffalos graze in clover fields without the sound of guns ...And the red sun sinks at last into the hills of gold

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