Native Americans

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

--Chief Seattle


We needed their land
and kept moving them west

beyond the Mississippi River

We called it a land exchange 

and when we needed that land

we moved them again,

forced migration to a barren and arid land

We needed their land when we

found minerals deep in the mountains,

wanted grazing ground for cattle,

needed just that space for laying tracks

We needed their land when we promised

land to whoever wanted a stake out west

They had to move when we moved in

At the Massacre at Sand Creek

Chief Black Kettle waved a white flag,

but they must have changed the color

that day because no one stopped killing

We needed their land