We survived the Trail Of Tears
never forgotten about Wounded Knee
we saw to it that Custer would make his last stand
and mourned for the Sand Creek massacre
with Geronimo we would keep riding on
to save what should of never been gone
For over five hundred years
we would fight to be free
and our blood would spill on this land
we saw respect for our Mother Earth
and did what we could to protect her
with our Spirit Guides we became one with the animal
this was the way with all of our people
Our religion was strong with the Great Spirit
but White Man tried to teach us how to forget
and corrupted our children at birth
teaching them to forget the ways of our culture
only to make their eye's blind not to see
that this was our way taught to be
that should of never been gone
Spiritwind ©2016
May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016 at 1:20 AM UTC
We survived the Trail Of Tears
never forgotten about Wounded Knee
we saw to it that Custer would make his last stand
and mourned for the Sand Creek massacre
with Geronimo we would keep riding on
to save what should of never been gone
For over five hundred years
we would fight to be free
and our blood would spill on this land
we saw respect for our Mother Earth
and did what we could to protect her
with our Spirit Guides we became one with the animal
this was the way with all of our people
Our religion was strong with the Great Spirit
but White Man tried to teach us how to forget
and corrupted our children at birth
teaching them to forget the ways of our culture
only to make their eye's blind not to see
that this was our way taught to be
that should of never been gone
Spiritwind ©2016
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