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A Rondeau Redouble with Envoi
A chapter in the book History and Myth
Culture Clash
by Treischel
Culture Clash (A Rondeau Redouble with Envoi) A proud people lived on the plains Lead by lessons learned long ago Little of horseman's myth remains Lived free as wolf and buffalo Geological records show These historical ice-age strains Comanche, Sioux, Arapaho A proud people lived on the plains Living off what the land contains Following vast herds as they go Their teepees kept off cold and rains Lead by lessons learned long ago Tumbled in tragic tale of woe When life was changed by wagon trains From a culture they didn't know Little of horseman's myth remains Disregard of value caused pain Guns and numeric overflow Near extinction with tribe distain Lived free as wolf and buffalo A proud People In anguish the ancestral spirits cried As these majestic cultures nearly died. "Enesta! Tsigoti galvladi atloyadi. " |
"Enesta!
Tsigoti galvladi atloyadi."
Cheyenne words from Cherokee dictionary:
Enesta - Hear
Tsigoti - I see
Galvladi - Heaven
Tsigoti - cry
Rough Translation:
"O Hear!
I see heaven cry."
The arrival of Europeans to the Americas was a true clash of cultures. Since the end of the 15th century, the migration of Europeans to the Americas has led to centuries of conflict and adjustment between Old and New World societies. Many Native Americans lived as hunter-gatherer societies and told their histories by oral traditions; Europeans therefore created almost all of the surviving historical record concerning the conflict, and of course with their own spin on it. Native Americans suffered high fatalities from contact with Eurasian diseases to which they had not acquired immunity. Estimates of the pre-Columbian population of what today constitutes the U.S. vary significantly, from 1 million to 18 million. As American expansion reached into the West, settler and miner migrants came into increasing conflict with the Western tribes. These were complex nomadic cultures based on horse culture and seasonal bison hunting. Smallpox epidemics in 1780 - 1782 and 1837 - 1838 brought devastation and drastic depopulation among the Plains Indians. War, disease, and a deliberate policy to eliminate their food source by eliminating the buffalo herds, nearly made these cultures extinct.
This poem is a Rondeau Redouble,
It is a poem with a very complex fixed format. It is written on two rhymes (the a and b rhymes), but in five stanzas of four lines each and one of five lines that repeats a portion of the first line of the poem. Each of the first four lines (which due to the a and b rhymes will be identified in the following stanzas as A1, B1, A2 and B2) get individually repeated in turn once in the following stanzas by becoming successively the respective fourth lines of stanzas 2, 3, 4, & 5; and the first part of the first line is repeated as a short fifth line to conclude the sixth stanza.
The stanzas each carry an abab rhyme scheme.
So with the repeat line shown in numbered capitals, this can be represented as - A1,B1,A2,B2 - b,a,b,A1 - a,b,a,B1 - b,a,b,A2 - a,b,a,B2 - b,a,b,a,(A1).
This poem can have any meter.
This Picture was taken by the Author himself at a state park in August, 2012 while camping near Pipestone, Minnesota.
Pays
one point
and 2 member cents. Tsigoti galvladi atloyadi."
Cheyenne words from Cherokee dictionary:
Enesta - Hear
Tsigoti - I see
Galvladi - Heaven
Tsigoti - cry
Rough Translation:
"O Hear!
I see heaven cry."
The arrival of Europeans to the Americas was a true clash of cultures. Since the end of the 15th century, the migration of Europeans to the Americas has led to centuries of conflict and adjustment between Old and New World societies. Many Native Americans lived as hunter-gatherer societies and told their histories by oral traditions; Europeans therefore created almost all of the surviving historical record concerning the conflict, and of course with their own spin on it. Native Americans suffered high fatalities from contact with Eurasian diseases to which they had not acquired immunity. Estimates of the pre-Columbian population of what today constitutes the U.S. vary significantly, from 1 million to 18 million. As American expansion reached into the West, settler and miner migrants came into increasing conflict with the Western tribes. These were complex nomadic cultures based on horse culture and seasonal bison hunting. Smallpox epidemics in 1780 - 1782 and 1837 - 1838 brought devastation and drastic depopulation among the Plains Indians. War, disease, and a deliberate policy to eliminate their food source by eliminating the buffalo herds, nearly made these cultures extinct.
This poem is a Rondeau Redouble,
It is a poem with a very complex fixed format. It is written on two rhymes (the a and b rhymes), but in five stanzas of four lines each and one of five lines that repeats a portion of the first line of the poem. Each of the first four lines (which due to the a and b rhymes will be identified in the following stanzas as A1, B1, A2 and B2) get individually repeated in turn once in the following stanzas by becoming successively the respective fourth lines of stanzas 2, 3, 4, & 5; and the first part of the first line is repeated as a short fifth line to conclude the sixth stanza.
The stanzas each carry an abab rhyme scheme.
So with the repeat line shown in numbered capitals, this can be represented as - A1,B1,A2,B2 - b,a,b,A1 - a,b,a,B1 - b,a,b,A2 - a,b,a,B2 - b,a,b,a,(A1).
This poem can have any meter.
This Picture was taken by the Author himself at a state park in August, 2012 while camping near Pipestone, Minnesota.
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