Friday, January 14, 2005
Nicely written...
FrontPage Magazine.com: Death Songs, Jews, and Comanches by David Yeagley
What would I be crying about?
The Indian story. It’s taken me many years to face it, but in my Comanche blood is written the worst historical trauma of all: to be free as the wind, then caged forever; to roam the prairie like a wild horse, then to be roped into everlasting confinement. Yes, I cry for an irreparable, tragic past. It is a doleful drone in my soul, a long, lonely drum beat.
I don’t know how to describe the sorrow. For all my education in the arts, I am mute. I have no voice. Yet...
...I haven’t killed my fears yet. I’m still afraid of the Indian tragedy within me. For now, I find my voice in the ancient wailing of another people. I indulge myself through their exquisite articulations. I hide behind the Jews.
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