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But the land was already claimed by a people when the cowboy came and when the soldiers came.
The story of the American Indian is in a lot of ways a story of tragedy like that day at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
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Bigfoot was an Indian Chief of the Miniconjou band,
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a band of Miniconjou Sioux from South Dakota land.
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Bigfoot said to Custer, stay away from Crazy Horse,
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but Custer crossed into Sioux land, and he never came back across.
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Then Bigfoot led his people to a place called Wounded Knee,
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and they found themselves surrounded by the Seventh Cavalry.
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Big Chief Bigfoot, rise up from your bed,
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Miniconjou babies cry for their mothers lyin' dead.
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Bigfoot was down with a fever when he reached Wounded Knee,
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and his people all were prisoners of the Seventh Cavalry.
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Two hundred women and children and another hundred men
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raised up a white flag of peace, but peace did not begin.
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An accidental gunshot, and Bigfoot was first to die,
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and over the noise of the rifles you could hear the babies cry.
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Big Chief Bigfoot, it' s good that you can't see,
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revenge is being wrought by Custer's Seventh Cavalry.
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Then smoke hung over the canyon on that cold December day,
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all was death and dying around where Bigfoot lay.
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Farther on up the canyon some had tried to run and hide,
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but death showed no favourites, women, men and children died.
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One side called it a massacre, the other a victory,
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but the white flag is still waving today at Wounded Knee.
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Big Chief Bigfoot, your Miniconjou band
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is more 'n than remembered here in South Dakota land.
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Big Chief Bigfoot, your Miniconjou band
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is more 'n than remembered here in South Dakota land.
