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It’s the end of a troubled century, the end of all our old & valued traditions...
We had fought and battled to keep the white man from obtaining more acquisitions...
Now the plain is eerily silent.... a summer wind brings forward the only life...
We had defended so hard but exhaustingly finally lost the will to fight...
So many leaders, so many commanders, so many failed attack attempts...
But now history will flourish and live off these remarkable Wild West events...
“Let me be a free man -- free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
Chief Joseph”
Fuck this new America, this new incarnation of the devil, this evil land...
This white man thinks he can achieve everything that he coldly commands...
He’s arrogant and ignored all the pleading importunes that we chanted...
Our grasslands have been burnt, their gone and can never been replanted...
A century of hurt portrayed in a diminutive piece of irrelevant dirt...
It’s trampled over; spat on and never gets the opportunity to revert...
“It’s like, You see a drop of water plunge into a puddle...the ripple expands, that’s what life was like...One tribe was defeated...soon they were all defeated...the horror spread..”
As I now sit, a poet in 2004 lookin’ back on these events over a century ago...
Although I’m spreading the word I just added the water to let he seed grow...
Indescribable events were etched on these brave and gallant native minds...
There memory will be forever kept alive in every rapper who reads these lines...
They’ll learn about how these people felt & how events started to turn...
How they watched helplessly as there land & possessions started to burn...
“I look back at this...how America was overcame by this new age of modernization...how the old way of life was gone, gone forever....How we witness the desperation of these heroic people. How we witnessed a “Sacrifice of a Nation”.