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“Standing Bear Speaks:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was not in that fight. There were many who were not. The warriors<\/p>\n\n\n\n

came back in the dark, and everybody was so excited that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

nobody slept all night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next morning, about twenty of us young fellows started<\/p>\n\n\n\n

out to see where the fight had been. First we saw a dead horse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

without shoes. Then we saw a dead horse with shoes, and near <\/p>\n\n\n\n

this one was a soldier full of arrows. we got to where the sol-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

diers had camped after the fight, and there was a place where the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ground was fresh and a big fire had been built on it. We started<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to dig there to see what was hidden. We got down on our hands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and knees and dug in the loose ground. After a while we came<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to a blanket and there was a dead soldier in it, and it was tied<\/p>\n\n\n\n

around his legs and waist and neck. We pulled him out, and one<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of the men said: “This is my blanket. I have been looking for<\/p>\n\n\n\n

this blanket. I will have this blanket.” So he took it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under that was another dead soldier tied up in a blanket,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and then another and another under that. The fourth one was a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

black Wasichu[Negro]. Each time somebody said, “This is my<\/p>\n\n\n\n

blanket,” and took it. I got the the fifth one, and the man inside was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

young, and he had a ring on his finger with a white stone in it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

that sparkled. I cut off the finger and I had the ring for a long<\/p>\n\n\n\n

time. One of our men scalped a soldier and started home with<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the scalp on a stick. When we got on top of the ridge we could <\/p>\n\n\n\n

see the soldiers of Three Stars retreating toward Goose Creek a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

long way off. A big dust was rising there. The we went home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The village stayed at the head of Spring Creek several days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we all broke camp and moved over to the Greasy Grass.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpted from “Black Elk Speaks”, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

as told through John G. Niehardt, author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Be Continued: Islander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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