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Three Lakota Songs

by Lakota (Anonymous)
(20th Century) Timeline

English version by
Frances Densmore & Brian Swann

Original Language
Lakota
Primal/Tribal/Shamanic : American Indian
20th Century

May the sun rise in splendor
May the earth appear in light



A     wind
wears
me

Look

It is
sacred



A rainbow hoop

wears
me

Everybody
sees me
coming

 

 

-- from Song of the Sky: Versions of Native American Song-Poems, by Brian Swann

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Themes

  Light
  Sun
 
 
 


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Song of the Sky: Versions of Native American Song-Poems, by Brian Swann

 

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