For Kachi Nita - Choctaw Girl
The Choctaw Indians
From the southern states
This Muskogean group
Like others, their future waits
The American Revolution
Supporting the thirteen states
But history would tell them
As they learn-ed their fate
They were the first Native Americans
To march The Trail of Tears
A supportive tribe
Now living modern fears
To Oklahoma exiled
For the US to expand
To save them from extinction
The want of their land
Ratification of
1831
The Treaty of Dancing Creek
And their politics began
The Choctaw who stayed
In newly formed Mississippi state
The first to become citizens
On America's plate
The humanity of this tribe
Echoed so loud
The Great Irish Famine
Serving these Irish proud
History has noted
The pride in their race
Always willing to serve
No matter the place
In World War 1
They exceeded and rode
The Choctaw language
In Military code
For Kichi Nita
And, Ima Chi Ona
Two Choctaw ladies
Off awesome persona
They carry their past
Like the wind and the eagle
A tribe of true America
The Choctaw People
http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/native-americans.php
Copyright © James Fraser | Year Posted 2009
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