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Layli Long Soldier speaks ...
Legalese: with lots of "Whereas"

Her Lakota people make other news in praying -
She really believes in prayer as resistance

Yes, "Indians" are so very different
But I have not read, ever, they fought over sacred cities

Or went to war over a sacred mountain, or river, or fish ...
Their Great Father gave them that unity, not political

Poetess Long Soldier discovered a 2009 US Apology
Hidden quietly in a Defense Appropriations Bill

"Leave the plant to stay alive," but take leaves
Of the Red Willow: a living-giving-Resource God

Like water; Long Soldier talks much of her one child
A daughter. Legalized sorrow under President Obama

Whose Healthcare Bill medicates and sustains those who hate him
For being a successful black man, who took the presidency from 

Some outstanding human called a Caucasian Male, by election
When real history tells us, Obama defeated a woman candidate

Hilary Clinton, by the same game we celebrate in others
This Obama hid the apology to Native Americans

Her own dad did write Layli an apology; an absentee father
But she knew how healing begins with heart-istic apology

We have learned to be legal experts in social relations:
Even when teachers work with kids, or at university

But all of us love taking advantage of those we can subdue -
In America many assume the worst of someone with an accent:

Potential child abuser, rapist, thief, male chauvinist
And of course for the male: potential terrorist

After all, Why apologize for defending "my" land, country home?
Layli Long Soldier's people did not judge "White strangers"

Lakota means "Friend," but we would never guess that
Whereas in the past, "Savage" and "Negro"  were our descriptors

Anyway in 2010, this apology America gave Native Americans
Became an Act (Look it up!). Or was it an "act" before 2010?

(c) Anil Deo, still believes in Shalom, for SHALOM is more than mere "peace"
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