to a free people -- Tribes and Natives of America

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
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What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/chief_seattle.html

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
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' while i stood there i saw more than i could tell
and i understood more than i saw....'

'...a people's dream died there,
it was a beautiful dream'....

                                        black elk



this is what we have (had)
this is what they want.

they don't want us to think
so they can keep us stunted; and stupid

They want us impoverished
by keeping us dependent , slaves
to our needs created through the wrongs beliefs
of all that they determine that as good for us.

We were gloriously self sufficient

but , making us insufficient
they've scrambled our brains.

They want us 'never good enough'
'not suitable for freedom'
thus program our systematic destruction.

They  divide us, scatter our children,
our songs, our culture
snatched our lands, demolished our environments.


They have created vocabularies; to shut us dumb to our own thought paths.

rules; to stay obedient, unopposing
-- sure, that we won't resist.

They have told us to be careful
so that the tigers and lions of our imaginations might not
devour us up.

They belittle us, in humiliation-- look disgraceful
they trample our soils with blood and screams
of our sisters , mothers , fathers , brothers,
....our children.

they blasphame our rivers
kill our buffalos
eradicate our forests to bring in 'the civilisation'

Civilisation - we learnt later was synonymous;
to scheming, treachery, breach of honour, and wars.

They took from us what was'nt given.

destroying us in every indescriptable ways.


They want us not healthy; and fearless
as once we were
fearing, our strength might push us; to revolt.

They tag us , number and secure us
to tie us to their system
through bondage; they control , they trace , they track
as we were their animals.

they control what we eat , and what we shit....


they want us crawl, and keep crawling
till we wont remember what it is to stand up.

so we could never strike upon the idea
of what we should'nt let them make of us,
of our rights.

They make us sign
they make us participate in obscure plans
in obscure ways
misleading us
to believe
that we're creating our new destiny in their versions of Democracy.

They have given us to think
that they have delivered us with privileges
Woe to us --the saddest truth
we're reduced to less ans less of what we are.

They took away everything
when they took away our land our language, our magic, our ceremonies
and offered us a new religion,
new god, new country.

They make sure in every ways we'll never escape from their hold.
But, our forefathers voices still sing loud enough
for us to dance our way to death embracing the Great spirit.

Gathering the rainbows on our feathers,

We die;
untamed, wild and free.