#Para-Wa-Samen

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Tribal camp of the Blackfeet :: Walter McClintock; c. 1895 -

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“I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there are no enclosures and where everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls. I know every stream and every wood between the Rio Grande and the Arkansas. I have hunted and lived over that country. I lived like my fathers before me, and, like them, I lived happily.”

Para-Wa-Samen (Ten Bears) of the Tamparika Comanches Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

[Hell and Earth]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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“I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there are no enclosures and where everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls. I know every stream and every wood between the Rio Grande and the Arkansas. I have hunted and lived over that country. I lived like my fathers before me, and, like them, I lived happily.” Para-Wa-Samen (Ten Bears) of the Tamparika Comanches Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

[Hell and Earth]