“Did you see them in the river?
They were there to wave to you.
Could you tell that the empty quiver,
Brown skinned Indian on the banks
That were crowded and narrow,
Held a broken arrow?”

Broken Arrow, from Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)
Song lyrics, With Buffalo Springfield

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