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Buffalo Dance
Buffalo Dance
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Buffalo Dance

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
  1. 200

    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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