Shibastik's Album "Fire and Water" is making me think this morning. In particular his song "The Ones" half way down the linked page.
"We know
we’re not the one’s who lived off nothing but the land. We know we’re not the one’s who know what
life was like before the white man came and affected the average native life
span."
"You’ll
never get to see the native I was meant to be.
Sometimes it feels like I was born in the wrong century. I know we’re not the ones who had to choose
our destiny."
"You
looked at us like we were dust on your floor plan."
" People
tell us to stop bitchen about
the past. We’re not bitchen were
just in mourning. It wasn’t a thousand
years ago you know, it was just a few generations ago.
"
"We’re all
survivors. If you are breathing still
and you got native blood you’re a survivor and you gotta be proud
of that."
I am so lucky to have such a depth of talent to draw from to feed my soul.
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