Brionglóid dheireanach Chrazyhorse

Publication Instance Details #470

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Indigenous Rights (incl. culture & language) Genocide Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance
War / Genocide Referenced	Genocide: Genocide of indigenous people in USA (pre 20th century)
Irish Context	Other
Languages	Irish
Genre	Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	He had seen what happened to the chiefs who went to the Great Father's House in Washington; they came back fat from the white man's way of living and with all the hardness gone out of them... Now the white man had bought Little Big Man and made him into an agency policeman. As Crazyhorse walked between them letting the soldier chief and Little Big Man take him... he must have tried to dream himself into the real world to escape the darkness of the shadow world in which all was madness.... Dee Brown.
Notes	This poem is centred around 'Crazyhorse', a Lakota war hero and leader who took up arms against the United States government in the 19th Century, in order to preserve the traditional Lakota way of life. Crazyhorse was also a spiritual man who received visions and trances. In this poem, he undergoes his last 'dream' or 'trance', and speaks from a first person perspective, bemoaning the devastation wrought upon the Native American way of life by the white settlers. The natural world is out of sync; women and men wear unfamiliar clothes, and speak an unfamiliar language; children go hungry while buffalo rot in the plains; and Crazyhorse's comrades fall to alcoholism. The Great Sioux War of 1876, also known as the 'Black Hills War', is referenced directly in the poem: Crazy Horse notes the bloodshed and devastation that followed their struggle against the settlers. The opening line of the poem 'scéal liom daoibh', originates from the Old Irish Poem 'scél lim díb'.