Group B, Long Time Ago

I think that it was very important that this poem was about witches. Normally, people would be scared of witches. These witches have human skins and dead babies and all sorts of horrifying objects. And yet, these witches are terrified of the white men. They know that the white people's way of life will never allow for the native americans and the white people to coexist. The witches know that it is only a matter of time before the white people begin to slowly (or quite suddenly in some cases) utterly destroy the native americans.

In response to Haley's question about how this poem can be considered dystopian,

I think that the representation of the white people has some dystopian elements. The white people are portrayed as "different" from the native americans. The white people are motivated by wealth and power. They don't understand the native american views of the earth and nature. The witches find this strange and terrifying.Dystopian works often seem to portray a people that are vastly different from the reader. The characters have some fatal flaw and the reader can't understand how someone could be so wrong. It is almost as if the witches are listening to a dystopian story. But this story is very real for them.