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Bury the Hatchet acts to interrogate the historic and modern institutions and develop a language to re-define the present times. Hitchcock's grandfather Saukwaukee John Dussome Reid (Kiowa) voice cuts through the sound by telling a story of the old days on the southern plains on the song "Star House/Set'tainte Song" and "Jimmy Creek (A Comanche Story)". This story was told to Johnny Reid when he was hospitalized back in the 1930's with a 103-year-old Comanche elder named Tahen. Johnny Reid recorded his story on a reel-to-reel player, which Hitchcock translated to a cassette and now into digital format as part of Bury the Hatchet. On several songs, Jason Cutnose (Kiowa) interprets the Plains of Oklahoma and Texas through three Kiowa stories. The first story featured on "Saddle Mountain" and several other songs, speaks about the massacre of several Kiowa women, men and children at Cutthroat Gap. The second story featured in "Rainy Mountain Falling Stars" speaks about the 1833 Leonid meteor shower and the recording of the stars with earth pigment on the Kiowa Buffalo hide calendar. The third story featured in "Lone Wolf and the War with Texas (Meers Road Part 1)" talks about the Kiowa Chief Lone Wolf (Gui-Pah-Go) and his dispute with Texas Rangers and the US Military. Both John Dussome Reid and Jason Cutnose's recorded voice challenges the western perspective of the written word by reinforcing indigenous views of oral history passed on from generation to generation through storytelling. ?