tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27107398989603755122024-03-04T20:45:38.641-08:00Indigenous Voices of Abya YalaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710739898960375512.post-9037573269094796622017-07-30T12:12:00.000-07:002017-07-30T22:48:09.118-07:00An Interview with Filmmaker Margaret Ramos - Ser Salvadoreño es ser Medio Muerto - To be Salvadoran is to be Half Dead<div id="fb-root">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Author: Diego Mulato Castillo</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I recall my father bringing home stone arrowheads. Rubbing his thumb
against the carved edge of the stone, he said, “...you can even
tell that it is a little sharp here.” My father had always told me
stories about Native peoples of El Salvador, especially the Pipiles, who built the ancient ruins of El Tazumal and San Andres.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is sad, that in El Salvador, a large portion of the population prefers to claim Spanish heritage. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In Margaret Ramos' film, <i>Ser Salvadoreño es ser Medio Muerto</i>,
it was shocking for me to see a news clip of a
person who occupied a seat in government claim that there are no longer
any individuals of direct Indigenous ancestry in the country. He
concluded by stating that, perhaps there were a few individuals in the
Western provinces of the country, but not enough to be counted as a
significant population. I found it disturbing that the man not only
failed to address his own Indigenous ancestry, but also claimed that
individuals of Indigenous descent are not worth mentioning, or counted
as Salvadoreños.</span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Margaret illustrated in her film how the massacre of 1932 in El Salvador, crippled the Indigenous population of the country. I had prior knowledge about the event, known as La Matanza, but it was a topic which I had never encountered in a classroom setting. I believe it is important to raise awareness regarding the massacres that occurred in El Salvador, and throughout Central America, so that both Salvadoreños and individuals from different backgrounds may learn about these tragedies.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Growing up, I felt that my experience and history was completely absent from my surroundings. Since middle school I can recall being assigned history books, and always flipping to the index looking for my homeland. To my dismay, if not absent, El Salvador only occupied a few paragraphs at most in the history textbooks. One grows up in a form of limbo, when one’s history and culture are completely erased from their lives. Margaret’s film not only brings attention to the genocidal trauma in El Salvador, but also allows individuals of Salvadoran descent to no longer be invisible—because representation matters. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She also shared her thoughts on Roque Dalton, an incredible poet and social critic who was assassinated at the start of the civil war. Once again, I already knew and had read poetry by Roque Dalton, but to learn about him in a classroom setting was a warming experience. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then, I experienced for the first time a side of El Salvador which I had never
known. In her film, not only did she touch on the Native influence in
El Salvador, but also on the legacy of Africans who were brought as
slaves. I was unaware that African slaves had been at one time brought
to El Salvador to work in plantations. It was eye opening to me, and it
was the first time I had ever heard someone refer to themselves as an
Afro-Salvadoreña. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After her film</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span>and lecture on the
Indigenous and African roots </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> buried deep in El Salvador</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>,</span></span></span> I interviewed</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Margaret</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> regarding this complex legacy</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span>and her experience as an Afro-Salvadoreña. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DM:
There is a quote by Junot Diaz that goes, "If you want someone to obsess
about a place burn it to the ground in their lives."</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Would you say that
this quote speaks to your experience as</span> an Afro-Salvadoreña and the erasure of places, peoples, and events in El Salvador?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MR: <i>That is a powerful quote. Yes, I can relate to
this quote because there is a certain impact that happens when your
history is erased. When your history is not made visible or
systematically eliminated, this causes a lack of resource, connection,
and identity.</i></span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DM: El Salvador, despite being a small country possesses a rich cultural legacy. According to you how has an African and Indigenous legacy shaped El Salvador?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MR: <i>It is visible in its music, dancing, its story
telling and some of its spirituality. It is hard to provide examples
since there are not many documentations. However, we hear it in our
music, and dancing. The Indigenous spirituality is important because
there is a lot of humility in the culture.</i></span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DM: How do you see public awareness regarding the African and Native legacy in El Salvador changing? And what are your hopes for the future, as well as your message to a younger generation of Salvadoreñas/os growing up either in El Salvador or in the United States?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MR: <i>There is now more of a visibility and empowerment
in the Afro Salvadoran and Indigenous identity. Women are claiming their
nappy hair and their skin "morena." There is now some documents and
interest in the history of these identities. I think my message to the
younger generation is to think for yourself, question everything around
you and get connected to your ancestry. It is important to know where you
came from and to know your story.</i></span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Diego Mulato Castillo</b> is currently attending San Francisco State University and is pursuing a degree in Literature with a minor in Latina/o Studies. He resides in Sebastopol, California and enjoys reading and hiking.</span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="_mh6 _wsc" id="cch_f35814b9a74f8bc"><span class="_3oh- _58nk"><b>Margaret Ramos</b> is an Afro Salvadoran from Los Angeles, California, who currently works with English Language learners at a middle school in Santa Monica. </span></span><span class="_mh6 _wsc" id="cch_f379ad146867cf6"><span class="_3oh- _58nk">To schedule a film showing or speaking engagement she may be contacted at: </span></span><span class="_mh6 _wsc" id="cch_f379ad146867cf6"><span class="_3oh- _58nk">meramos2@gmail.com.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<b>Mica Valdez</b> is Native and mixed (mexica, swedish, irish, spanish, and african), two spirit artist working on Indigenous global issues to effect social change and protect mother earth.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710739898960375512.post-62763424372190089772011-12-08T13:15:00.000-08:002017-04-04T08:43:32.604-07:00Open Letter to The 'Occupy' Movement: The Decolonization Proposal - Video by Rebecca Ruiz-Lichter<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/r_s3X0uW9Ec" width="420"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710739898960375512.post-47083520514678678972011-07-23T19:35:00.000-07:002017-05-07T14:31:12.146-07:00Poem by Joel KurkeI’ve got a medicine bag<br />
full of poems and songs that treats<br />
like a natural antidote<br />
That was once lost but lives on<br />
SMUDGE OFF<br />
with this smoke<br />
that floats off flames<br />
from these rhymes that I wrote<br />
BRUSH OFF<br />
Then sprinkle me<br />
with the ash and remains<br />
so my pores will absorb<br />
these quotes to defend and cope<br />
with the ghosts of past mistakes<br />
These words are like a life boat<br />
better yet
a Red Cedar Dugout<br />
used to float<br />
Past my old self<br />
who still crys<br />
for HELP<br />
Beggin for change<br />
and cash on the Ave.<br />
one more hit<br />
one more brown bag<br />
with an aluminum can<br />
to withstand<br />
my PAIN<br />
That’s why I PRAY<br />
all day<br />
to maintain<br />
Manifest Light Rays<br />
to blind old ways<br />
from coming out<br />
the dark place<br />
of my MIND STATE<br />
So this day<br />
I choose my fights wisely<br />
because the right way<br />
is to pave Red Roads<br />
Guided by my Ancestors Soul<br />
where the buffalo still roam<br />
on Pow-Wow Highways<br />
Where the fresh water Always Flows<br />
From the Cascade Peaks<br />
Where Heaven and Earth meet<br />
Towards Rocky Mountain Snow Caps<br />
Melting from the sun<br />
Rising like yeast<br />
from the East<br />
to clear land<br />
from DISEASE<br />
Where our Children live and play<br />
not growing up too fast<br />
but are able to understand<br />
what it means to Grass Dance<br />
What it means to bring back<br />
The Ghost Dance<br />
our souls chant<br />
Ancient Vibrations from Nations<br />
That have been lost since the INVASION<br />
That are now being Cultivated<br />
Communicated through<br />
states of<br />
Prayer and Meditation<br />
This is the Voice of Creation<br />
To all my Relations<br />
Spoken Words<br />
To kindle the Flame<br />
for the next Seven Generations<br />
To nourish the ROOT<br />
In the youth<br />
With the Water that’s Fresh<br />
It’s the TRUTH<br />
Happiness cannot be shot<br />
Through a needle that shoots<br />
DEATH<br />
Success<br />
Can’t be measured<br />
By the size of<br />
Your platinum necklace<br />
Time cannot be bought back<br />
From the choices we’ve made<br />
the only choice<br />
is to choose<br />
to ELEVATE<br />
To some life is just a game<br />
Playing the high stakes<br />
But who’s really getting played<br />
have we not had<br />
enough of getting sprayed<br />
with mace<br />
foot and ankle chained<br />
to Lies-N-Hate<br />
It’s time we Remember<br />
Our Elders Wisdom<br />
That is slowly fading away<br />
like other natural resources<br />
that face Extinction<br />
My Grandmother’s Eyes<br />
Tell a story of Traditional ways<br />
That existed before culture rape<br />
and black plagues<br />
A time before<br />
Gang Violence<br />
Alcoholism<br />
And AIDS<br />
A time before<br />
Crack babies<br />
Epidemics<br />
And mental Slavery<br />
We used to live in HARMONY<br />
balance with all living things<br />
created in unity<br />
Giving Respect<br />
Because the Creator is<br />
A Reflection of All Things<br />
The source<br />
The season<br />
The Life<br />
The Teachings<br />
The Song is still Breathing<br />
The Drum is still Beating<br />
Connected to mother earth’s heartbeat<br />
Through Urban Jungles<br />
And Concrete<br />
We rejoice and Give Thanks<br />
For Good Medicine Willz<br />
Used to help Heal<br />
The ill ones<br />
Still suffering right beside us<br />
A new beginning<br />
All things go in Cycles<br />
Old souls are being reborn<br />
In the child<br />
Look at the Grandfathers Smile<br />
We Missed You<br />
<br />
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<br />
A-Ho Mitakuye Oasin<br />
(We are all Related)
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<a title="By Williamwaterway (William Waterway - Private Collection) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AHawk_Littlejohn_Native_American_Flute_vintage_1996.jpg"><img width="512" alt="Hawk Littlejohn Native American Flute vintage 1996" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Hawk_Littlejohn_Native_American_Flute_vintage_1996.jpg/512px-Hawk_Littlejohn_Native_American_Flute_vintage_1996.jpg"/></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710739898960375512.post-85571624058415326332011-05-09T10:53:00.000-07:002012-02-09T09:37:22.413-08:00Short Story by Gerri L. Williams<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><b>Winter Nights</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><b>_______________________________________________</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><b><br /></b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Looking back on those years when I was out there on the streets I have come to realize it wasn't everything good. But also it wasn't everything so bad either. I would have rather lived a life of struggle than a life of having everything handed to me. I would have rather experienced the hardships and pain, because, it was a gift of strength to me. Not in the birthday presents or Christmas gift kind of way, but, a gift only hunger, cold winter nights and homelessness can give you.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As winter slowly arrives. Snow in the mountains. Winter chills outside, I am reminded of those nights that I lived on the park benches at the waterfront when I was 12-years-old. I don't know why I slept there with the Puget Sound underneath me but I did. I only had a backpack then. Jean shorts that showed my knobby-knees. And the blackened sky. The water pounding underneath me. And most of those nights I was wrapped in a winter chill with a pillow of silence. I wasn't scared. Although my stomach was begging and pleading with me for anything edible and threatened me with slight pains; I fell asleep OK.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I was curious waking up each day. Where would the food come from? What would happen today? Who will I meet? It was more of an adventure than anything. I would think of my family at times back home on the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation but slowly tucked those images away, those thoughts. There was a greater purpose for me out there in Seattle. I dont know why, but, it just seemed easier to me being out there in Seattle than being back home. A child knows their environment. The atmosphere. The warmth and coldness of a home. A child knows if the home is fractured or whole. A child knows.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I used to carry around with me many, many blank journals. I used to write down everything that happened each day. I recorded most of those stories in the journals that had family photos on them, mostly pictures of my little cousin Glorianna (who grew up calling me Auntie), but over time I lost every single one of them. Some people stole them at the homeless shelters. Some people stole them from my youth home (La'ba'te'yah) when I got there when I was 15. And the rest I lost in a house fire. Almost five years of my life when I was on the streets of Seattle lost. I remember the most important things though. The people. The love. The family we had. The hardships. The good times. The bad. But most of all I remember the ones who wanted something more for me. Those who wanted something better for me too. The ones who would invite me to Westlake Mall to get something to eat. The ones who would get a motel room for me for the night. The ones who would walk side by side with me and let others know that no one is to harass me, or else. And, the ones who invited me into their lives and stood side by side wtih me out there on 1st and Pike.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Yes. I am a sentimentalist. I was told that is my biggest weakness as a writer. But, this writing here is just for me. Not for a class assignment. Not for a college professor. Not for a publisher or an editor; just me. I have been writing since I was 4-years-old. I have since gone to the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2000 and learned more of the professional art and creativity of letters, lines, space and pacing. Stanzas. And point of view. Writing was always my greatest strength; poetry was always my first greatest love. I had all those journals with me in Seattle full of poetry, memoirs and thoughts. I wish I had them today, but, I believe there is reason and purpose for everything.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Even though I was 12 when I first got to Seattle, there were others who ran away at 8, 9, 10 or 11 years old. Some of them ran away with their baby brother or sister. Some ran away by themselves. But, we were all there just the same. Winter was the worst time for all of us. I think snow is one of the most beautiful of creations, but, to have to live in it, sleep in it and let it fall upon you insn't so beautiful.But, I always respected it and appreciated its beauty.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I am only reminded of those dark nights because of how cold it has been getting lately. Today is something beautiful and warm, but, the night is reminescent of my first days in downtown Seattle. Tears fell like crazy as I walked from my Burndale Home to the bus stop ten blocks away. Whenever I went to Seattle before that night I walked to 7-11 and caught the 150. It was a two hour bus ride between Burndale and the City of Sealth. Seattle was named in honor of Chief Sealth. Seattle was like an old Sepeh (Grandpa) gathering his children in the heart of downtown and uniting them as family; like an old Sepeh who still loved from the other side.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I don't know if you would call it Skid Row? But, my Uncle Jimi told me that he once used to live or hang out in downtown Seattle before, tool? Or, maybe he told me stories about other Natives living there, but, his generation had lived and survived there just the same. I wasn't a drinker. I never did any drugs like most people around me, but, I never thought any less of anyone either. Those were the people who kept me company and told me stories and ate Teriyaki with me on the corner of 2nd and Pike. Those are the ones who would walk through Pike Place Market with me and share a pear, plum or apple with me. They were the ones Chief Sealth placed in my life to uplift and prevent the worst that could have happened to me, because even though he is with our Maker now, Chief Sealth still hasn't abondoned his children.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As you read this you might be wondering how in the world did I end up in Seattle as a 12-year-old girl. Without blame and self pity I will tell you this: It happened because it was meant to happen. It was something that couldn't have been prevented or altered. It wasn't something so good, but also, it wasn't something so bad either. I had the right people in my life who helped me through it all: Demetrius, Playboy, & Tears. Others came and gone, but, those were the ones who solely remained. Omar, NS1 was there as well.</span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710739898960375512.post-21978650570625436952011-02-14T15:58:00.002-08:002017-04-04T09:35:27.003-07:00Valentine's Day: Remembering the Missing & Murdered Native Women in Canada<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51 , 51 , 51); font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><b>_______________________________________________</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The film </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Finding Dawn</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is about the unsolved cases of missing and murdered Native women in Canada. It starts by covering the story of a missing Native woman who lived on the East Side of Vancouver, whose name is Dawn. She lived a troubled life growing up Native in white foster homes. She was abused sexually at a young age while living in a foster home. When Dawn grew older, she followed a difficult path in life leading her straight into prostitution and drugs. On the days of her last known appearance, she was living in East Vancouver, a neighborhood known for prostitution and drugs. Several other Native women were also living in that neighborhood. Dawn's last point of contact was her sister. Her sister knew that something had happened to Dawn when she could not get a hold of her. The family reported Dawn missing to the police department and awaited any news. The police did not find anything leading to Dawn.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The director of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Finding Dawn</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Christine Welsh, brings attention to the unsolved cases of missing Native women occurring in Canada. The film develops many questions regarding the issue at hand. Why are these Native women being targeted and kidnapped? Why haven't the police caught any suspects involved in these kidnappings? Why is the response time for investigating the kidnappings taking so long? This film creates a public awareness in order to stop these outrageous crimes from continuing to happen. The film has brought the Native communities together to fight what is taking place amongst their people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Many Native women have been kidnapped off of Highway 16 across Canada and their stories remain a mystery. Highway 16 runs from east to west across some of the most beautiful mountainous terrain in the world. There are so many firebreak roads leading off of the highway and heading deep into the mountains; they can be hard to locate anyone traveling on them. Some family members believe that because of the race of the women missing, that they do not have priority for the police department to look into. The families state that if the victims missing were white, the investigation done by the police department would be more thorough and evidence could be found. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Native community has set up an awareness day on February 14 in Vancouver, Canada for the missing women. On February 14, which is Valentine's Day, the Native communities gather and walk the streets of East Vancouver. The walk represents an awareness that the missing Native women will never be forgotten, or become a closed case. There is still hope in finding them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The film </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Finding Dawn</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> was a rude awakening for me. I had no idea that this was going on in Canada. With the large amount of women that have gone missing, it is hard to comprehend that no one has been caught. Hardly any evidence remains in regards to the missing women. The question still remains, why hasn't anyone been caught yet for the kidnappings of these Native women? It is a huge controversy and the families of the victims are looking for answers. It seems that Canada just leaves the investigations up to their local law enforcement of the area the kidnappings took place. I would like to further investigate into the missing Native women of Canada in the future, and hope to see some important evidence leading to the findings of the person(s) of these cruel acts. I would also like to see the missing Native women's bodies be accounted for with a proper burial.</span></span></div>
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I had a good childhood<br />
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Rainbows, Fun, and love<br />
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Rainbows at Santa Rita on Bright rainy visiting days<br />
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I remember the heaviness in my pockets,<br />
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The change I would put on my mom's books, thinking it would make a difference.<br />
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Walking around Oakland with the cops following us,<br />
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Being just a little girl and knowing what it was all about.<br />
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We always had it all<br />
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My mama took good care of us<br />
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Even though she was addicted<br />
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To that white powdery stuff<br />
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She was like a goddess to us.<br />
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I remember playing with drugs, cold guns, sharp knives, and cute little baby dolls.<br />
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I didn't even know my dad's name, yet the names of drugs slurred out my mouth.<br />
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Till this day I remember clearly the day they took my mommy away<br />
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The pigs pulling her away, I cried my little heart out trying to make her stay.<br />
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But they did not let her go, not even so she could explain<br />
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That day I met hate<br />
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I was a little girl who felt pain in her heart and hate in her veins<br />
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While other little kids were at home talking with their mom<br />
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A tear dropped on the letter I was writing to mine<br />
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I loved my childhood with big smiles, emptiness, love, and pain,<br />
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I don't want to live in shame when there's things I just can't change.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">our grandmother’s dust</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Is watered with the fallen dreams</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">of all women</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">all women</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">all women</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">sacrifice dreams for future generations</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A breath of wind</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Weaves Water</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">weaving dreams</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We live whole lives between</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Each breath</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Our grandmothers dust</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Waters our dreams</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This accumulation of hope</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Feeds our souls</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">women</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Breathe life</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Breathe life into being</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In this season of abundance</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hear grandmother’s breath echo</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Her breath moves</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All the winds of time</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All life intertwined</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Earth memory holds me</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Holds me to the ground</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Holds me on the ground</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Holds me in the ground</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And sets me free</span></span></div>
</span></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710739898960375512.post-23143432921280831692011-01-12T18:39:00.000-08:002017-05-07T13:58:46.610-07:00Poem by Marcie Rendon<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51 , 51 , 51); font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
<div style="font: normal normal normal 14px / normal "verdana"; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Untitled</span></b></span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 14px / normal "verdana"; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><b>_______________________________________________</b></span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 14px / normal "verdana"; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 10px / normal "verdana"; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: white;"></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51 , 51 , 51); font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a history</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drenched in blood</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Relocation</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Forced</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Acculturation</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Termination</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Extermination</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Contamination</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Radiation</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Oh wa Ya hey</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Oh wa hey</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There are no</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Broken memories</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Only</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Forgotten destinies</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hey yah hey</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Oh wa hey</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hey yah way</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My hope rising</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Rising hope</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">De con tam in ates</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I hear women call</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I hear all women call</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You cannot kill us twice</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Oh wa hey</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hey oh aay</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Lakota Dakota</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ho chunk</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Anishinabe quay</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I call</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All healing</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This earth</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Calling all</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All healing</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This land never was gone</span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px / normal "times"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My feet never left this earth</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Never left this earth</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You cannot kill us twice</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This earth never lost</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My feet never left this earth</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This earth never gone</span></span></div>
</span></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710739898960375512.post-53020932041622497382011-01-01T11:01:00.000-08:002012-02-09T09:43:38.993-08:00Poem by Jennifer Lisa Vest<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">When</span></b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><b>_______________________________________________</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><b><br /></b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Everybody wants to be an Indian</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A pow-wow fancy-dancing</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Feather-wearing Indian</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Everybody wants to be the</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Noble Savage of America</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The old man on the banks of the river</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Crying about pollution.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But who wants to live on the reservation</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Bad coffee, beans, lard, diabetes</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And too much TV</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Who wants to farm on swampland</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Bedrock and waterless sand?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Who wants to wrestle alligators for a living?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Everybody wants to wear suede</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And fringe leather jackets</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Patterns from Guatemala</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Pretty beaded hair barrettes</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And turquoise</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But who wants to dress up</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In fake Indian clothes</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For snotty-nosed camp kids</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Who call you "Hey Indian"</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">While you give them a tour </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Of your culture?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Everybody wants to be an Indian</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To be indignant about</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"The crimes of white America"</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To be spokesperson for the slighted</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And the slaughtered</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To write books about ecology</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To teach workshops on herbology</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But who wants to send their kids</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To foreign schools that teach foreign language</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Foreign culture</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Shame</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And how to disrespect?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Who wants to be laughed at in traditional dress </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And told they have no culture</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the same breath?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Who wants to be idolized, romanticized</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And iconized into something</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You can never represent?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Everybody wants to be an Indian</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A vision-seeking, sage-burning</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dream-catching Indian</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Everybody wants to eat peyote</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dance at the Sundance</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sweat in the sweat lodge</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Return to "the way things were"</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And dress up like Pocahontas for Halloween</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But who wants to have </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sports teams</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And four-wheel drives</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Named after your ancestors</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Or your tribe?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Who wants to be studied</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And who wants to be questioned</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And who wants their every action </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Scrutinized</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">By non-Indians who claim</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To know more than you do</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">About your way of life?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Everybody wants to be an Indian</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">When its popular</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">When its glamorous</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; 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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Evelyn Isabel Barba</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is a Mexican American student who enjoys fashion and drawing and is currently attending Laney and Alameda College.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ras K'dee</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is a Native California Pomo/African American musician who is the co-founder and director of the Native youth media organization SNAG and vocalist/producer of the band Audiopharmacy.</span></span></span></div>
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Melissa Lozano</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">is a Chicana poet, author of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bullets & Butterflies,</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and is an undergraduate student in the English Literature program at Mills College in Oakland, California.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Venaya Yazzie</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is of the Dine' and Hopi nations of the southwest and a poet, painter and photographer from northwestern New Mexico.</span></span></span></div>
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<b> Chicano Aztec Lover</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And it’s a Sunday afternoon of Mariachi</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Festival fun. So many Chicanos in the park</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wearing their Sunday best, macking</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Socializing in the San Jo heat.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Chicano Aztec Lover.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Some wear their colors on their sleeves</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But me I am sending out that vibe you know that vibe.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’m looking for a tall Moreno guapo Chicano Aztec lover kind of guy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And then there he is next to the oldies vendor stand.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A bronzed firme Chicano and I am thinking to myself he has to be down.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Down enough to go down to the barrio and buy me a real carne asada taco</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and not one of these overpriced sin queso sin aguacates tacos.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He must wear obsidian rocks and tongues</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">around his neck. He must whisper my name in Nahuatl. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and if he’s a poet, a definite plus.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Chicano Aztec Lover.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I bump oldies out of my 64’ and I pray to my mini</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Just to prove to you baby, I ain’t about no junk.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’ve read the Chicano Manifesto from front to back </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">back to front and now it’s my turn</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to read you. I come for reals baby.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I want to be your Chicano Aztec Lover.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Let me wrap my long hair around your body.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’ve been growing it for years for my Aztec dance tribe.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My bronzed body is tattooed with the Aztec calendar.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The symbols of the United Farm Workers and a tear drop to boot.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I may not have served time but I feel I am a prisoner of this country.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> I don’t fly Mexico’s flag on Cinco de Mayo</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">but every day. I want to be your Chicano Aztec Lover. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I just don’t pump my muscular body with weights and ego.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My body is a temple and you </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">shall worship it. But enough about me. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Y tú, como te llamas?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Me llamo Chicana</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Discoteca mama poeta</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">love him and</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">leave him lover.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And if you could</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">please move</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">blocking </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">my sun.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710739898960375512.post-58008929443415973642010-12-28T21:14:00.000-08:002012-02-09T09:34:48.052-08:00Artwork by Adriana Blanco<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPiditUjipVHUK2cGhJ_n2DrnIQ3eb0xIZzEoPe1I0BQ7Cle2nTxF3W8Bx-zalnIxZkP5iWiSNEu4dniDmO7pbOakdXvgruvq4Lf2Q2bhksSqlQZUaO_hXdeRfgYZFv4SJ7UYjfNWyoCI/s1600/100_0825_2_2.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPiditUjipVHUK2cGhJ_n2DrnIQ3eb0xIZzEoPe1I0BQ7Cle2nTxF3W8Bx-zalnIxZkP5iWiSNEu4dniDmO7pbOakdXvgruvq4Lf2Q2bhksSqlQZUaO_hXdeRfgYZFv4SJ7UYjfNWyoCI/s400/100_0825_2_2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555976074089709458" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710739898960375512.post-51882142018672504652010-12-28T20:45:00.001-08:002012-02-09T09:35:32.533-08:00Artwork by Venaya Yazzie<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkE-5-MGXrb8fDFwbXukhZ5F6t0VoFOR68xVLFS6QXP5K2h8hr0cjG1q2Vkp4qDfSGRRrZ-JCRGgVg1biUlAm5SNfKZiMBF_sogJMZc0-R85kspytJPw2pCzjs75uMszozH6K2kAXZc4/s1600/MatriarchBYvenayayazzie.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; 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font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">Untitled</span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">healing thru dreams</span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">revelation thru allies </span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">allows internal peace</span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">to circulate 360 </span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">the spiral remains to the right of the fire</span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">be prepared for the second sun</span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">there is always an end and a new beginning</span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">darkness becomes light</span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-right: 0px; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710739898960375512.post-9717202597964075582010-11-27T00:30:00.000-08:002012-02-09T09:31:24.597-08:00Artwork by Evelyn Barba<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5sas5z_bulbclivRDV3PjDLq3AMxWCJBfDuPWLnIBq2CHkKaRGGI7FCnBeSchl8dSRMMLpZZ3qVbfsEKa6KduZPsQ0WD8257htglMQXMIqzy2j79jeHuotlsOWWDsYhcEPYDHDeigVQ/s1600/Indigenous+Voices+of+Turtle+Island+and+Abya+Yala+by+Evelyn+Barba_2.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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