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Whitepath and Fly Smith
Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: July 11, 2017
Caption: Whitepath and Fly Smith
Additional Description: The Trail Goes On But they stand at the end of their journey shivering in the cold Shaking with sickness that no leader should endure The Trail Goes On But they stand upon this ground One with head bowed in silent acceptance leading on his stick the other with hand outstretched asking the great spirit to help him know the reason for the grieving and the suffering of his people the women and children cry in their camp by the river stung by the frost aching from the lack of food they look to their chiefs for answers and in their eyes see only expressionless despair The Trail Goes On But two chiefs lie here in the stillness unable now to help their people throw off the oppression of the white man and his manifest destiny Their pain lives on in these figures silent not beneath the sun and starts and the The Trail Goes On Thomas E.. Morris Jr. December 17, 1989
Submitted: July 17, 2017, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p390139
File Size: 9.210 Megabytes

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