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Our Country

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It was one day that this was our country

That this land was our home so loved

Then suddenly you chose to say different

Planted a flag on the mountains peak

Claimed that wherever you went

Wherever you said a few words

That it would all belong within your hands

Would be something for you to call your own

My heart cannot help but break

Cannot help but feel the tears deep inside

There was no time given for thought

This place of ours taken away for greed

A war of constant death started for gold

In blood and sorrow a people faded away

It was murder done in the name of your malice

Madness born in the smoke of your guns

After it was all finished at the crimson sunset

Nothing would be the same for our nation

Rarely would anyone recover from the tears

By the river lay a few feathers left from the chaos

A dream of so many broken in the night sky

It was one day that this was our country

That this land was our home so loved

Yet now you tell me it isn't mine
"A long time ago this land belonged to our fathers, but when I go up to the river I see camps of soldiers on its banks. These soldiers cut down my timber, they kill my buffalo and when I see that, my heart feels like bursting."- Satanta, Kiowa Chief

It is true, a long time ago this land was our country, this place our nation. Then one day other people come along, say its theirs, say they have more right to it than us. These actions would lead to a holocaust, to my people nearly disappearing from the face of this Earth. How is it that the world can just forget, just nod and look away from the chaos that has been caused before? How can my people still be denied justice, and the land that rightfully belongs to them?
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Xehanortrising's avatar
They just won't acknowledgede it. They will never admit that they played a hand in the holocaust of most tribes and the outright extinction of other tribes.