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Poetry by Dawn |
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"Possibilities"
A Poem by Dawn E. Lavigne CLICK HERE TO READ THE COMPLETE POEM |
"White Medicine Woman"
On the prairie Rebecca is still She’d helped others And became deathly ill
You see the heart catches things That the mind cannot see So it was with life On the prairie |
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| "The Butterfly" A Poem by Dawn E. Lavigne It's the simple things in life, Like the beauty in a butterfly as it takes flight Or the teenage daughter that becomes a college bound sight It's one of life's greatest wonders, I will smile then and remember when.... |
"You Made My Children Cry: Ode to a Dead Beat Dad" |
Rebecca Eliza (Howe)
Buffington
was born in the Nebraska Territory in 1873, She homesteaded near Lemmon, South
Dakota in 1906
with her husband, Frank Buffington and her three sons, Lorne, Ted, and Robert.
It was in her sod home, just north of the Grand River where this Quaker woman
became known to the Lakota Sioux as a white medicine woman for the nursing care
she gave to Lakota children suffering with diphtheria. She is my great
grandmother and she is my hero. Her life inspired my creativity to write
about her life as a pioneer homesteader in a book which was recently published.
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