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Thunder Butte, in South Dakota, has featured prominently in my family's history since 1913. Also known as "Wakinyan Paha" to the Lakota, its religious and cultural significance to the Lakota goes back much further in time, still. Rising from the dry, rolling prairie grasslands in Ziebach County, in northwestern South Dakota, the butte is located on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation.
From the top of the butte, you can see for miles in every direction. There are not many people here, although the land is alive with the memory of those who walked here before us. Taking in the quiet of the plains as they reach to the horizon, you can well imagine the way the world was before we were here, and what it may look like long after we have moved on.
--Mike Crowley

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February 26, 2010

Once You've Heard the Owl

Listen to the lonesome coyote howl
Coo of the turtle dove
Drink from the flowing spring
And the panther`s midnight call

Not `til then old friend
Will the moon smile down
On the beginning and the end
Of a friendship that has flown

This sleepy summer day
A clucking prairie chicken
Nesting in the new mown hay
Brings future thoughts that quicken

Of speeding cars
And flights to mars
Mark not our final thoughts
Those things are only ours

In summing up
Drink from the flowing spring
Listen to the owl
Night falls sealing everything

--John Crowley

Mike Crowley Friday, February 26, 2010

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Once You've Heard the Owl

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