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This is Home To On being and Becoming
It is about my life as an indian in
A non-indian world
And a historical look at the
Absentee Shawnee Tribe
Broken Promises
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TREATY
When you grazed all the forests
Silenced all the birds
Destroyed creation
That came before your words
When you stamped to the ground
All the things you fear....
One thing you can be sure of
I'll still be here
Remember the treaty
You have made with me
As long as the grass grows
And the sky is blue
And rivers run free
Did this not mean forever
Or did we not agree
Will lies and broken promises
Be your legacy
Who am I your Honor
Who am I your Grace
Who do you see standing here
As you look upon my face
Hear me Mr. President
This is sacred ground
You cannot own my spirit
Though you might lay me down
So Take all your children
Teach them your lies
Why waters are polluted
And smog fills the sky
You can drain all the oceans
And fill them with tears
You will never remove me
I'll always be here
So when you seat your council
Who will come to speak
For the Buffalo the Eagle
The forests and the trees
The oceans and their bounty
All whom here abide
And for all the children
Stand here at our side
Who am I your Honor
Who am I your Grace
Who do you see standing here
As you look upon my face
Hear me Mr. President
This is sacred ground
You cannot own my spirit
Though you might lay me down
You cannot take my spirit
This is sacred ground
Joanne Shenadoah
@1991 Red Feather
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Mother Earth provides for us all we need to survive
Along with the sky
And the ever glowing gift of light EL SOL
All that we need to prosper and thrive.
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The President brought war on Iraq
Knowing that they were not
A threat to the United States
It was planned before Sept. 11,
His agenda on being elected was to
Manufacture war on Iraq to become world leader
They had to suffer so Bush and
Chaney could get rich rebuilding
Iraq and guarding their oil interests there
Disregarding the loss of life it cost their nation
We have seen the lust for power
Motivated by greed in our own lands
Sanctioned by the U.s. government.
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"Maybe it's the outrageousness
of the act in New York
That makes it stand out.
But then I have to ask myself:
How did America get to be America?
It killed women and children.
It slaughtered us
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And now they cry terrorism,"
"If we have international structures
That infringe on thesovereignty of nations,
You also have to have, within those nations,
An inhibition of the sovereignty of individuals.
Of course, this is nothing new for the Indians.
The American masses are becoming the new Indians.
I've been here before."
From AlterNet The Dissenting Troubadour
by Brooke Shelby Biggs
Quoting an interview with
John Trudell
June 16, 2002
Wovoka The Ghost Dance and The Massacre Of Wounded Knee
PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO VISIT SHAWNEE'S
RESERVATION
The site contains a wealth of information about the shawnee
As she took everything on her site
Verbatim practically from a book
my grest uncle wrote entitled CIVILIZATION.
I suggest it is easier to read what she
Has stolen rather than me write the
Same things down here. Though I would point out
That the Absentee Shawnee have no ties to her
United Shawnee Kansas Indians.
And Hawk Pope is just a man who says many things,
Whether they are truthful or not. He is no chief of
The three recognized shawnee bands
My grandpa Boletha Hood. My gandmother's dad.
I am an Absentee Shawnee
Of the White Turkey Band
There are two bands of Absentee Shawnee
(the other band is the Big Jim Band)
My family is aligned with the Alford family
My grandmother's mother was Tecumseh's
Great granddaughter, Her brother
Thomas "wildcat" Alford
The first indian of Oklahoma who received
A college degree, which he was ostracized for.
He was to be chief of the Shawnee but was
Thought to be too white so was not given the honor.
Through his efforts as a surveyor, the Shawnee
Have him to thank for the allotments they have today.
I am of the Wolf Clan
There are five Clans in our Tribe
I also have Comanche and Cherokee Blood
And the descendancy of Delaware and Creek
I am 51 years old....I live near Shawnee Ok.
On the original allotment given
To my great grandfather in 1895,
Giving back land that was stolen from indians
Who are to be accepting that this took place
Indians are questioned for feeling animosity
About what their fore fathers lost to "progress"
The way things are now may be progress, but we
Lost so much that can never be recovered.
My time on this planet is temporary
We are straying away from our ways
Farther as time inches it's way through this
Process we are embarked on called life
But life is eternal amd love is universal
And you have to be and become, and know
It's a Different World
by Rodney Crowell
To make the world a better place
like dreamers often will
We left that bed of roses to push
that rock up the hill
The way we went about our task
proved destined for to fail
Just who we thought we were-don't ask-
there's no way you can tell
It's a different world now--to say the least
The sun comes up from in the west
And sets down in th east
The stars are out there shining
But just where we cannot say
It's a different world now like night and day
In the name of self defense
we built bombs to prove a point
We'd drop them on our neightbors when
Their nose got out of joint
To sell the same hamburger
Rain forests had to go
"Hell we don't need no air to breathe,
Just don't tell us no"
It's a different world now--without a doubt
The raindrops fall to heaven and
The tides go rollin out
The rivers flow like powdered milk and
The wind blows with a wheeze
It's a different world now--there are no trees
I take a look around and I see
Ice caps in your eyes
Desert where the swamp should be and
Cold black canvas skies
I take a look around and I see
Crossbones on a rose
How we let this come to be seems no one really knows
In life's rich beauty pageant
We put children on a stage
Said flash your soft white belly child
Just don't act your age
Sell sex like cotton candy
To young and old alike
When you've outlived the fantasy
Then you can take a hike
It's a different world now--but what to do
We had our fifteen minutes and
Blew it right on cue
We used up mother nature
Like a twenty dollar whore
It's a different world now--there ain't no more
@+2002 Sony/ATV TunesLLC.JOnly Publishing
My home here is as a member of all living beings
On this beautiful home, Mother Earth
Creator of all things gave everyone
To share within the Circle of Life
Look at Us
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At times they were kind,
They were polite in their sophistication.
Smiling but never too loudly
Acting in civilized manner,
An illusion of gentleness
Always fighting to get their way.
While the People see...the People know
The People Wait, the People say
"The closing of your doors will
never shut us out,"
"The closing of your doors
can only shut you in,"
We know the predator
We see them feed on us
We are aware to starve the
beast is our destiny
The times they were kind
They were polite
But never honest.
We see your technological
Society devour you
Before your very eyes
We hear your anguished cries
Exalting greed through
Progress while you seek
material advances
The sound of flowers dying
Carry messages through the Wind
Trying to tell you about
balance and your safety.
But your minds are chained to your machines
And the strings dangling from your puppeteer's hands
Turning you twisting you into forms of confusion
Beyond your control
Your mind for a job
Your mind for a t.v
Your mind for a hairdryer
Your mind for consumption.
With your atom bombs your material bombs your drug bombs
Your racial bombs your class bombs and your sexist bombs
your ageless bombs devastating your natural shelters
Making you homeless on earth
Chasing you into illusions...pulling you
Making you pretend you can run away from the
Ravishing of your spirit
While the sound of flowers dying
Carry messages through the wind
Trying to tell you about balance and your safety.
Trying to isolate us in a dimension called lonliness.
Leading us into the trap, "believe in their power".
But not in ourselves.
Piling us with guilt... always taking the blame
Greed chasing out the balance
Trying to isolate us in a dimension called lonliness
Economic deities seizing power through illusions created
Armies are justified class systems are democracy
God listens to war mongers prayers
Tyranny is here............. divide and conquer
Trying to isolate us in a dimension called lonliness
Greed inherent insecurity the happiness companion
Genocide conceived in so fist toe ca tion
Technologic material civilization
A rationalization
Replacing a way to live trying to isolate us
in a dimension called lonliness.
To God,
we hope you don't mind but
we would like to talk to you.
There are some things we need to straighten out......
It's about these christians.
They claim to be from your nation, but man
you should see the things they do
all the time blaming it on you.
Manifest Destiny, Genocide, Maximized Profits,
Sterilization, Raping the Earth Blind,
Taking more than they need in all the forms of the Greed
We ask them why they say it's God's will
Damn God they make it so hard
Remember Jesus?
Would you send Him back to them?
Tell them not to kill Him, rather they should listen.
Stop abusing His name and yours
We do not mean to be disrespectful
But you know how it is.....
Our people have their own ways
We never even heard of you until not long ago.
Your representatives spoke magnificent things of you
Which we were willing to believe
But From the way they acted we know
You and we were being deceived
We do not mean you or any
of your christian children any bad
But you all came to take all we had
We have not seen you but we have heard so much
It is for you to decide what life is worth
We already remember but maybe you forgot
Look at us Look at us we are of earth and water
Look at them it is the same
Look at us we are suffering all these years
Look at them they are connected
Look at us we are in pain
Look at them surprised at our anger
Look at us we are struggling to survive
Look at them expecting sorrow be benign
Look at us we are the ones called pagans
Look at them on their arrival
Look at us we are called subversives
Look at them descending from name callers
Look at us we went sadly in the long dark
Look at them hiding in technologic light
Look at us we buried the generations
Look at them the bend the body count
Look at us we are older than america
Look at them chasing a fountain of youth
Look at us we are embracing earth
Look at them clutching today
Look at us we are living in the generations
Look at them existing in jobs and debt
Look at us we have escaped many times
Look at them they cannot remember
Look at us we are healing
Look at them patented
Look at us we are trying
Look at them what are they doing?
Look at us we are children of earth
Look at them who are they?
John Trudell
@Tribal Voice '83 |
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"We are statistics that everyone has heard about,
the unemployed, uneducated, alcoholics,
welfare recipients. We have been the study
Of many Congressional studies and investigations,
All types of studies, but we as statistics still
remain - our situation has remained the same for a century.
So we have grouped together behind our religious beliefs,
our respect for human rights, our beliefs that we are entitled
To human rights as well as everybody else.
Our functions have been to educate our own people
and to try and educate the White American as to the fact
that we exist yet today. I mean when you look at A.I.M,
[this is] who we are.
We are the descendants of Geronimo, Crazy Horse.
We are the indigenous people. We are concerned about
what is happening to our people now,
because, you know, we don't like to be a statistic...
To respect the Creator we must show respect,
we must respect ourselves.
Too many times we have seen our people
in a condition where we don't see...even self-respect."
John Trudell
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