This Poem was Submitted By: Rick Phillip Angus On Date: 2000-12-21 14:39:10 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Mother Earth's Woven Children

Enter the Plains, the Navajo, the Apache, the Sioux, the Iroquis, the Blackfoot. Came you from nowhere but seperated by those from afar. Enter the Cherokee, the Pueblo, the Delaware, the Arapajo, the Cheyenne, the Pawnee. Centuries of prosperity and freedom, stolen for farmer's land and king's pride. Enter the Seminole, the Crow, the Mohawk, the Wampanoag, the Dakota, the Nez Perce, Taken from your Mother Earth and placed, where no seed of life and heritage was planted. Kidnapped from the land ancestors before had tended. Given land our Mother had not yet rooted. Watching go to waste the products deemed as necessary. Lies, hatred, disease, deception. Words to describe the Kidnapper...the white man. Honor, loyalty, heritage, freedom, peace. Words to describe the Prisoner...the Native American. A prisoner not in another's territory, but on your own soil...your own blood. All nations held together by a single strand, a strand of pride forever woven and embedded in infinite life. This one strand holds our blood, our heritage, our tale and journey. And Mother Earth knows the truth. She bore us, She fed us, and She cried for us. Yet She cried not for our sorrows and pains, but because She knew that the Red Man would once again prosper and be free. Because no White Man's product could break that thread of pride. And all Nation's would be reunited once again, to be free. Enter Native Americans.

Copyright © December 2000 Rick Phillip Angus

Additional Notes:
this was written in honor of all the Nations of the Native American. Both those mentioned in this poem and those unmentioned. and to the memory of the warriors that fought to keep holy their land.


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