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A MESSAGE TO THE INDIAN NATIONS
I have never met you
Only have I looked at pictures of you.
I have never spoken to you
Only have I read of you.
You once lived in peace
At one with all things
Then the white man came
He called you savages
With no true spiritual beliefs
He did not understand you
Nor did he want to!
He brought you disease, money and death
He tried to change your ways
And when he saw gold
He tried genocide
He ripped massive holes
Out of Mother Earth
He was the savage!
He moved you away
From your sacred lands
And left you to die on reservations
Yet you are still here
Many of your people have died
The white man still tries
To destroy you all but you fight on
And you remember that you are an Indian!
I have never met you
Only have I looked at pictures of you.
I have never spoken to you
Only have I read of you.
I hope one day
We shall meet and talk