And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 09:51:25 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Russ Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ipperwash
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Remember Dudley George who died on September 6 1995 defending his homeland.
Settlers
Look back upon your history,
Do you remember from where you came?
How long ago did your ancestors set foot
On this land of hardship and gain.
Did they come out of persecution,
Did they flee a certain famine,
Who hosted you on Turtle Island,
Who brewed bark tea when the scurvy came?
Were you friends back then, survivors,
Did you trade and laugh and meet,
Were you glad to have new homes then,
Did you know that prejudice creeped?
Your allies, benefactors fell from grace,
Into the settlers ego a shadow emerged
That thought its ways were better
And so the hosts were purged.
The oppressed became the oppressors,
And it was the Native's turn
To feel the persecution and the famine turned
Over a new leaf, and the hosts were spurned.
Settlers, you'll always be the same,
As a passed-on farmer's plot always carries his name,
This land didn't need you to be fulfilled,
First Nations already had the job filled.
Will you reach out, remember your past?,
Each generation is responsible for that of the last,
Of sovereignty that is not exclusively yours,
To share what you borrowed, ours is not exclusively yours.
(c) 1998 Sandra Mitchell
"We did not weave the web of life.
We are merely a strand in it.
Whatever we do to the web,
we do to ourselves"
Walk gently on Mother Earth"
"It's not necessary to blow out the other fellows candle.....to let your own
shine".
I found that on the top of a menu in a little cafe in Mendimines, Kansas
about 30 years ago....and its stuck with me ever since.
Petition For A Public Inquire Into The Death Of Dudley George
http://www.nt.net/~russell/petition.html
http://www.nt.net/~russell
http://www.nt.net/~russell/Sandra
Fax Number 603.737.3337
Genealogy Home Pages:
http://business.fortunecity.com/influence/298 http://sandra.literature.webjump.com
"And A Wolf Howled"
http://www.nt.net/~russell/Work
"Turtle Island"
http://business.fortunecity.com/influence/298/Native/turtle_island.htm
UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE: http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/
Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine
of international copyright law.
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Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit)
Unenh onhwa' Awayaton
http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/
UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE
http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/
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