Many long winters have passed since I was a young brave. My skills are now faded with the light of my eyes. In the great domain of the Algonquin Tribes. I hunted with my father a wise and kind chief. He taught me the love of all the ways of the Great Spirit. Who provides all we will ever need to sustain our people. The great buffalo in their numbers too large to count Would feed our people until the end of all moon and stars.
Our ways were a gift of life the ways of our lineage from start of days. The newcomers took our land and our talk The buffalo was wiped from the land by their sticks of fire. Their bodies left to rot in the sun. What was the gift of Manitou they stole away. The water in our rivers is as poison from their waste. The fish are sick and cannot be eaten by our people. What was our pride, they scorned. Our children they took to teach them new ways Our blood they spilt into the soil of our heritage. Now we are imprisoned on the land of our freedom. I stay in my tipi old and frail my face lined with many years. I dream of a clear sky an eagle flying to the mountain. The herds of buffalo thundering again on the plains. To sit around the fire with the pipe again telling the deeds of our forefathers. No peace will ever rest my mind