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Subject: SITTING BULL (HUNKPAPA SIOUX CHIEF)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 4, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are places I cannot leave
Last Line: The exact skin/ never the same home
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief); Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


SITTING BULL AT THE CIRCUS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The treaty broken again, the lands lost
Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief)


SITTING BULL IN SERBIA, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred years ago, they say, buffalo bill
Last Line: Headlong into the night
Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917); Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief);


SITTING BULL SPEAKS TO GENERAL CUSTER, by BUCK ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within this land, half desert in its making
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief)


SITTING BULL TALKS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD NOVEMBER 17, 1877, by GARY H. HOLTHAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your people look up to men %because they are rich
Last Line: I fought. %but not until after %I had tried hard not to fight
Subject(s): Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief)


SITTING BULL'S WILL VERSUS THE SIOUX TREATY .. & MONTY HALL, by A. K. REDWING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clarence short bull died
Last Line: And a vast army of granite-faced clowns
Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief)