Poem by Marcie Rendon

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a history

Drenched in blood

Relocation

Forced

Acculturation

Termination

Extermination

Contamination

Radiation

Oh wa Ya hey

Oh wa hey

There are no

Broken memories

Only

Forgotten destinies

Hey yah hey

Oh wa hey

Hey yah way

My hope rising

Rising hope

De con tam in ates

I hear women call

I hear all women call

You cannot kill us twice

Oh wa hey

Hey oh aay

Lakota Dakota

Ho chunk

Anishinabe quay

I call

All healing

This earth

Calling all

All healing

This land never was gone

My feet never left this earth

Never left this earth

You cannot kill us twice

This earth never lost

My feet never left this earth

This earth never gone