From Sand Creek
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From Sand Creek is a poetry collection by Native American writer Simon J. Ortiz that reflects on Indigenous history, memory, and the legacy of colonial violence in the American West.
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| From Sand Creek canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: From Sand Creek Context triple: [Simon J. Ortiz, notableWork, From Sand Creek]
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A.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a protest song by Buffy Sainte-Marie that confronts the historical and ongoing injustices faced by Indigenous peoples in North America.
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B.
Dodge City War
The Dodge City War was an 1883 bloodless conflict in Dodge City, Kansas, involving a standoff between rival lawmen and saloon interests that epitomized the power struggles and lawlessness of the American Wild West.
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C.
Red Cloud's War
Red Cloud's War was an armed conflict from 1866 to 1868 in which Oglala Lakota leader Red Cloud successfully resisted U.S. military expansion along the Bozeman Trail in present-day Wyoming and Montana.
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D.
The Time of the Buffalo
The Time of the Buffalo is a nonfiction book by Robert Paul Smith that explores the history, ecology, and cultural significance of the American buffalo.
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E.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: From Sand Creek Target entity description: From Sand Creek is a poetry collection by Native American writer Simon J. Ortiz that reflects on Indigenous history, memory, and the legacy of colonial violence in the American West.
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A.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a protest song by Buffy Sainte-Marie that confronts the historical and ongoing injustices faced by Indigenous peoples in North America.
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B.
Dodge City War
The Dodge City War was an 1883 bloodless conflict in Dodge City, Kansas, involving a standoff between rival lawmen and saloon interests that epitomized the power struggles and lawlessness of the American Wild West.
-
C.
Red Cloud's War
Red Cloud's War was an armed conflict from 1866 to 1868 in which Oglala Lakota leader Red Cloud successfully resisted U.S. military expansion along the Bozeman Trail in present-day Wyoming and Montana.
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D.
The Time of the Buffalo
The Time of the Buffalo is a nonfiction book by Robert Paul Smith that explores the history, ecology, and cultural significance of the American buffalo.
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E.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | Simon J. Ortiz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creatorEthnicity | Acoma Pueblo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts | Sand Creek Massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| explores |
healing and survival
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legacy of U.S. expansionism ⓘ memory of massacre ⓘ violence against Native peoples ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Arapaho people
NERFINISHED
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Cheyenne people NERFINISHED ⓘ Indigenous communities in the American West ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasForm |
free verse
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lyric poetry ⓘ narrative poetry ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
Indigenous
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anti-colonial ⓘ |
| hasReception | widely studied in Native American literary studies ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Native American sovereignty
NERFINISHED
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U.S. military violence ⓘ colonialism in North America ⓘ environmental relationship to land ⓘ land dispossession ⓘ memory and testimony ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general readership
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students of Indigenous studies ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Native American resistance literature ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Native American literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
American West
NERFINISHED
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Indigenous history ⓘ Indigenous identity ⓘ collective memory ⓘ colonial violence ⓘ historical trauma ⓘ land and place ⓘ resistance ⓘ survivance ⓘ |
| mode |
historical witness
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lyrical reflection ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| publisher | Thunder's Mouth Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
American West
NERFINISHED
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Colorado Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | Sand Creek, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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