The Red Willow Tribe

by Theresa

Long long ago there was a family who had a girl who was 16 and a boy who was 17. There names are Yellow Butterfly and Little Bear. They were from the Red Willow tribe. One day when they were out side they saw some men coming with brown shiny sticks. They were guns. The men meet the chief. The chief came back from were the men were at. He said they were Spanish who wanted to trade with all the people in the tribe. But the people said "NO!" The Spanish got mad and hanged all the religious people for the people to see. They mad all the men start working on a place the Spanish called a church. And they wiped all the women when they didn't work. They got all the little kids and sold them as slaves. The Spanish went to every house in the pueblo to see if there was any people left.

Later on the Spanish went to Little Bear and Yellow Butterfly house. They found Little Bear and Yellow Butterfly and wiped them. The Spanish made all the women work on the fields. Later on that year Little Bear and Yellow Butterfly mother and father got killed by the Spanish because they didn't wont to work for the Spanish any more . The Spanish chained Yellow Butterfly and Little Bear and asked them were was gold? They said it was in the south of the mountains. But the Spanish asked the other people were is gold? The people said it is in the west of the mountains. The Spanish went to Little Bear Yellow Butterfly and they wiped them because they were lying to the Spanish.

But the Spanish said they didn't want to go till the church was done. A few weeks later Little Bear and Yellow Butterfly escaped from the Spanish. Little Bear and Yellow Butterfly went to the mountains were there father had build a place there for them. Later in the after noon the Spanish saw Little Bear and Yellow Butterfly stilling food from the fields but they let them go. The next morning some other Spanish saw some smoke coming from the mountains. The Spanish went to the mountains. They saw the house. The Spanish broke the door open. They saw the Little Bear and Yellow Butterfly and got them. When they got to the village they wiped them until they were bleeding.

Little Bear and Yellow Butterfly escaped from the Spanish again. Little Bear and Yellow Butterfly were living by all the chickens, cows, sheep, & pigs the Spanish had brought. The Spanish burned there homes they had. Little Bear and Yellow Butterfly got sick from all the animals and the diseases the Spanish brought. The people said the Spanish had brought sickness among there people because of the animals. One month passed and Little Bear and Yellow Butterfly died from the sickness. Little Bear and Yellow Butterfly's relatives found them laying in the dirt. They had berried them in the Spanish way. Ten years later The Red Willow tribe got revenge against the Spanish. And the Red Willow People were free at last. THE END

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