In honor of Happy Native American Genocide day, I would like to - TopicsExpress

In honor of Happy Native American Genocide day, I would like to share again this video I made 3 years ago... The Great Quilt Lyrics: The Great Quilt Our souls are the fabric of woven memory Weaving dreams into the hemlines of the stories that skirt our ankles Where our feet tip-toe through meadows where once a flock of thunder buffalo laid waste to an ocean of sweetgrass standing beneath the grey sky looming over the warp and weft of a tribe and its land Burying their hearts in ashes & smoke of a mass grave Stinking and rotting like two thousand corpses Spread out like pick up sticks that once picked up their villages; tipi poles, blankets & horses - moving yet again to another barren land where children die of starvation, typhoid or forced Christian education - to become what we are now.. A people without memories - walking amnesiacs - a plague of zombie locusts. Without a land our ancestors cherished Without stories of myth & meaning Without dreams because we cant sleep - a million zombie insomniacs Who never take responsibility for the hordes of lives stripped short of purpose, community, myth & ancestral land. We are the souls enslaved by four walls four walls per person enthroned in our solitude Forgetting our wounded knees and crippled wrists.. Buying the myth of greed Seduced by unquenchable thirst of more, enslaved by accumulation.. Entombed in acculturated myths of self-glorification, ego-pampering, intoxicated snacking.. Lacking who we are... Lacking who we are, Lacking wholeness We need more distractions to remind us of what we dont own: our Power Our Power to Love Our Power to Care for Community Our Power to CHERISH THE LAND like our ancestors once did.. To cherish the Life Force Land The blood that runs in our veins land the water and earth in our hearts land, that entire tribal nations fought to cherish Because they worshipped that which nourished them. The Life Force Spirit That which Nourished them.. The Life Force Spirit That which Unites all things, Binds all things in reality in a webwork of woven threads.. Filaments of stars, sinews of sunlight, Yarn of Stone, Hair of Water, Dyes of Cedar and Oak. Song of You & I & Every Friend The magic maker sits looming over time & space weaving memories, stories & songs into the essence of every soul and We are a Patchwork Quilt Sewn together by Pachamamas breath... And each patch in the Great Quilt is our Heart Song Dyed with the colour of our essence Sharing the Splendor of our Dancing Thread Sewn into the edges of our neighbors Our Heart spills over into the perimeter of our community We are the Tribe Renewed by OUR LOVE Walking the Pilgrimage route Back to the Land Where our children will cherish The ecosystem quilt We are all wrapped up in; Sharing Pachamama https://youtube/watch?v=nu3I52TRcAA