"The Lakota are a very strong and fierce tribe with legendary warriors and the battles and treaties that took place between the Lakotas and the United States’ Government have a long and popular history. First recorded incidence was the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804 where the Lakotas did not allow the explorers to head upstream the Missouri river and the conflict ended without casualties after a standoff. The southern Lakotas, in 1843, attacked a village owned by Pawnee chief Blue Coat in Nebraska and killed many and burned their lodges down." - https://www.lakotamall.com/history-and-ancestry/
"I agree with a statement made by Judson Jerome, who said 'Poetry should comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.' Much of my work I'd like to believe falls into this category, by confronting painful issues facing native people of the past, the present, and the future." - Tiffany Midge
Poem: "Written in Blood" page 212