Poem by TOM KARLSON, US ---Three Hangings

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	Poem by TOM KARLSON, US ---Three Hangings

righthand

8-1-2007 4:43 PM

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land, history, ireland

righthand says:

Treaty signed treaty broken
Game gone, reservation as Abu Grave

Wormed flour, maggoted beef, starving families
Young braves rising
Small victory, devastating defeat
Three-hundred-three to hang
Two-hundred-sixty-five set free by Lincoln
Thirty-eight swing December 1862
Lakota nation weeps again

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