119 days: Blanket # 2: Death Song

Nothing lives long

Nothing lives long

Nothing lives long

Except the earth and the mountains

'The Death Song of White Antelope'

Adapted from The Fighting Cheyennes

by George Bird Grinnell, New York, 1915

WHITE ANTELOPE:

• Noted war captain of the Cheyennes for almost fifty years
• Killed at Sand Creek Massacre, 1864
• Stood with folded arms singing this song
• Scrotum made into a tobacco pouch by Colorado Volunteer

Blanket # 2:

• Establish what is living
  
• Establish what dies
  
• Where is the earth?
• Where are the mountains?
• Who is singing?
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