 It begins with the image of “the antelope’s dream” and her “eyes open for the great old visions / of the cougar and bear, but with rattlesnake / as I pass and listen to her song.” The dream vision invokes images of traditional Indian culture, which is further strengthened by the relation of the dream vision to animals (closely associated with older Indian traditions) and again by the theme of song.She mentions Extinction of her people like a species wiped out.Then she gets more explicitly into the denouncing of colonialism and (specifically) Manifest Destiny.