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The Path on the Rainbow, edited by George W. Cronyn, [1918], at sacred-texts.com


BUFFALO DANCE

    Strike ye our land
With curved horns!
Now with cries
Bending our bodies,

p. 201

Breathe fire upon us;
Now with feet
Trampling the earth,
Let your hoofs
Thunder over us!
Strike ye our land
With curved horns!


Footnotes

200:* Miss Frances Densmore's literal translations from the Chippewa furnished the keynotes of this and the following five songs.       A. C. H.


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