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SIOUX SONGS: SIYAKA TO HIS HORSE by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY

First Line: WE ARE IN DANGER, THE CROWS ARE SURROUNDING US!
Last Line: HERE IS A HORSE THAT HAS AIDED A MAN!
Subject(s): ANIMALS; HORSES; NATIVE AMERICANS; INDIANS OF AMERICA; AMERICAN INDIANS; INDIANS OF SOUTH AMERICA;

We are in danger, the Crows are surrounding us!
If by your swiftness to safety you carry me,
I will go searching the best eagle feather
To tie in your tail, and around your hot neck,
Will fasten a strip of red cloth to your honor,
And paint your strong flanks, that the Tribe may all know:
Here is a horse that has aided a man!



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