To En-Sioux Justice
Reparations in Default
The vastness of this fertile land
Encroached upon by foreign man
Barbed wire stitched upon demand
I search within to understand
.
Open prairies and plains embraced
Civil rights destroyed erased
Treaties formed are poison laced
Villages burnt and then defaced
.
Whispers of the elements
Fear of marching regiments
A loss for true felt sentiments
We’re looked upon as dissident
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Extorted for the contraband
Intrusion from a distant land
Greed and malice widely spanned
It’s time to rise and take a stand
.
Battles waged pillaged and plundered
Oppression felt like sounds of thunder
Emotionally stripped and left to wonder
The evilness of that from under
.
How this wrath unleashed descended
Hopes and dreams destroyed upended
Religious thoughts enforced amended
Our way of life diffused suspended
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Sorrow felt so deep within
Our sacred laws of discipline
Decimated loss of kin
Their hands with blood there hearts with sin
.
A hundred years to wipe the tears
Government that fuels our fears
We gaze upon these old frontiers
The world we knew has disappeared
.
Taxation of our land now spent
Concrete tents of ill contempt
Breeding pure and true resent
Our strength reduced to 2 percent
.
Conquest gained through devastation
Driven by this annexation
Our people facing obliteration
Numbness now prevents sensation
.
Slots and Bingo are no solution
A federal form of restitution
They seek a shred of absolution
But merely its just prostitution
Comments (3)
Powerful like the others have said and perfect
Powerful invective, Tony. I always feel for the native peoples of conquered lands. It's exploitation at its worst.
I love this! A very powerful message with a beautiful rhyme.