Wounded Knee Creek Poem by Colin Ian Jeffery

WOUNDED KNEE CREEK

Crazy Horse, War Chief of the Sioux Indians of the North
American plains, was murdered by soldiers on September 5th,1877. He was 35 years old.

Soldiers from Fort Robinson
Pretending friendship
Offered the Sioux a lasting treaty
If Crazy Horse returned with them.

Trusting the soldiers
Crazy Horse rode unarmed into the fort,
Gate closed trapping him
His arms held as he was bayoneted.

Grieving parents of Crazy Horse
Took the body of their warrior son
Secretly buried his majestic heart
At place called Wounded Knee Creek.

Note: American history records the Indian nations were finally defeated by soldiers at a place called Wounded Knee Creek on December 29,1890. But it was a massacre. The Indians had surrendered. They were unarmed prisoners when the soldiers opened fire.300 men, women and children killed --- 4 men, and 47 women and children survived.