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Analyze the song and compare it with the images below.
Work questions: Who is the "you" of the song?
How does the song describe the relationship between native americans and whites in the past?
Is there another side, that we do not get to hear about?
What does the song want the "you" to do?
How do you understand the title?

You are limited to min. one page and max. two pages, using 1 1/2 spacing and Times New Roman.
The title is "Now that the buffalo's gone
When dealing with a rock song, not a poem, then "et vers - som en gruppe af linjer" is called a verse, and "en linje" is called a verse line.

Buffy Sainte-Marie: After the buffalo's has gone

Buffy Sainte-Marie was born in 1941 in Maine; she is a half-breed Cree Indian.
As a singer and songwriter she has been world famous since the 1960s.
She has played an important part in furthering the cause of the American Indian.

NOW THAT THE BUFFALO'S GONE

Buffy Saint-Marie - 1964

Can you remember the times
That you have held your head high
and told all your friends of your Indian claim
Proud good lady and proud good man
Some great great grandfather from Indian blood came
and you feel in your heart for these ones

Oh it's written in books and in song
that we've been mistreated and wronged
Well over and over I hear those same words
from you good lady and you good man
Well listen to me if you care where we stand
and you feel you're a part of these ones

When a war between nations is lost
the loser we know pays the cost
but even when Germany fell to your hands
consider dear lady, consider dear man
you left them their pride and you left them their land
and what have you done to these ones?

Has a change come about Uncle Sam,
or are you still taking our lands
A treaty forever your senators signed
They did dear lady, they did dear man
and the treaties are broken by Kinzua Dam,
and what will you do for these ones

Oh it's all in the past you can say
but it's still going on here today
The governments now want the Iroquois land
that of the Seneca and the Cheyenne.
It's here and it's now you must help us dear man
Now that the buffalo's gone.



claim: arv
Uncle Sam: Personificering af USA
Kinzua Dam: The construction meant that the Native Americans
had to move out of their homes.
Furthermore, the grave of Seneca religious prophet, Handsome Lake, was destroyed.
Iroquois, Seneca and Cheyenne: Native American tribes.

The Native Americans used bow and arrow


The settlers, on the other hand,killed the bisons in large numbers


Bisonhunt by train


Bisonhunt by train

Analyze on maximum one additional page the following Cree proverb

Base your analysis on the following model


------------------------------Kode (code)
------------------------------Kanal (channel)
Afsender(sender)----------- Meddelelse (message)----------Modtager(Reciever)
------------------------------Referent (referent)
------------------------------Situation (situation)

"When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover
you cannot eat money."