They come for Utah salt
and Ompi in the stone,
Flathead and Paiute,
Bannock and Shoshone

to dig the kamas root,
to drink the liquid clay,
to smudge red hematite
with Hey hey hey, ah hey!

High on a canyon wall
a pictograph reveals
caves behind waterfalls
where a Uinta shaman heals.

These are the haunted canyons.
The dust of the buffalo
conjures ghost companions
in chalk and indigo.

Note: Ompi is a red mineral, mostly hematite,used by American tribes since at least 750 CE in healing, painting, burial, and sundance ceremonies, in powows, and for war paint.