THE YOUNG WARRIOR - PART TWO
The man watched as they brought the sleeping warrior and
then he disappeared.
He walked away, vanished just as quickly as he had appeared
to the people...
It was a young red woman who ran after that man, only to
return badly frightened as she pointed to over there upon Mother our beautiful
earth's sacred and powerful white shawl...
The walking mans' tracks had become hoof prints, much as
those of our four legged relatives, the deer...
This is a true happening that took place during the
occupation of Wounded Knee, as the white man had chased the warrior deep in to
a blizzard, deep in to the inescapable ravines of the Badlands...
The warrior returned home one year later with lungs infected
from pneumonia and medicine men drew fluids from his chest ceremoniously with
the eagle bone...
The young warrior knew life had come to him under that snow
laden cedar tree...
In a dream a deer came to him, stood watching him and in his
own tongue he beseeched the help from our four legged relative...
It was granted.
Today, he walks proudly in the knowledge that his ancestors'
ways are true, and yet…
He is saddened that so many children are lost to these
sacred ways.
The federal agents never recovered that young warriors
sacred lodge and
...Yes, they still
chase him....
Illustration by Zawanquit
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