Mohawk, Mandan, Kikapu, Cree,
Yakoma,Seminole, Crow,Shawnee.
Arapaho, Chippewa and Sioux,
Mystical names to me and you.
Names like Delaware, Fox and Paiute,
Listen to their music on the flute.
Lakota, Macuna, Omulgee, Nes Perce,
Yuma,Nakota,Ossage, Washoe, Hualapai
All names that should never ever go away.
Many now confined to history, sad to say,
Mans greed for land that was not theirs,
Caring nothing for the Indian affairs.
Starved and defeated they were moved away,
Now are conveniently forgotten up to this day.
For 400 years the remainder has cried,
Who is going to pay for this act of genocide.
Man will never right this wrong, or even admit,
To the atrocities that they did commit.
Sacred Lands abused all the way through history,
Hundreds of tribes that roamed from sea to shining sea.
All long gone now lost to you and me
So many nations will be no more,
But their names live on and their spirits soar.
Remember their music and listen to their song,
Then their culture and memory will continue long.
Lest we forget. My offering of Remembrance
for the Native American Indian peoples.
© Dave Timperley 20 September 2016
Eagle Rock
In the Canyon so Grand
Wings spread
On Hualapai land
Sacred carve
By natures flow
This eagle flew
And settled so
People of the tall pine
The Hualapai
Dance to their ancestors
Who witnessed it fly
Blue green water people
The Havasupai
Sing to their ancestors
With the eagle cry
The Colorado Plateau
In Arizona's fine lands
Little wonder the word
And that word was Grand
No eagle would stand
If no Colorado flow
I pray in my lifetime
That i can go
" Thank you nature for this carve "
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