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1. "O-SEE-O."
To those who claim by heritage and blood
The undisputed, inviolate right
To call themselves the TRUE AMERICANS;
Whose ancestors were of whatever tribe,
Of Choctaw, Cherokee, or Wyandot,
Miami, Ottawa, or Ojibwa,
Or Shawnee, Seneca, Modoc, or Creek,
Quapaw, Sioux, Cheyenne, Peoria;
To all of these, and to all other tribes,
I dedicate the poems written here.
HEN-TOH.
Wyandot Reserve
Ottawa County
Oklahoma
The undisputed, inviolate right
To call themselves the TRUE AMERICANS;
Whose ancestors were of whatever tribe,
Of Choctaw, Cherokee, or Wyandot,
Miami, Ottawa, or Ojibwa,
Or Shawnee, Seneca, Modoc, or Creek,
Quapaw, Sioux, Cheyenne, Peoria;
To all of these, and to all other tribes,
I dedicate the poems written here.
HEN-TOH.
Wyandot Reserve
Ottawa County
Oklahoma
Note - 'O-see-O,' a Cherokee word of greeting.
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