From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1382 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Monday, October 14 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1382 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Lakota [Catherine McKay ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:53:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Lakota Marianne, you said, "I think that many of you on the list are natives in your body and/or soul. Who feels this? Every time they pave paradise and. . . "Paving over brave little parks. . . " ( that line breaks me) What kinds of experiences have made you feel this?" I'm not going to go so far as to say that I feel that I'm a native, because I think that might be presumptuous of me. But, I do tend to favour the underdog in any situation. I figure that anyone who flounces in and sets about destroying a culture is a bully, at the very least, and I just don't like bullies. I've always been drawn to the stories of the people who didn't show up in the history books we were subjected to as kids, because they were always more interesting and appealing to me. On Sunday, October 13, 2013 8:16:41 AM, Marianne Rizzo wrote: Thank you simon for the reality check on columbus. >We have to get this holiday *changed, >I tell my students at school, let's come to school Monday and take off Tuesday >and celebrate the Indians (native Americans . . . which is the proper way to >refer to the Indians? I am asking) > >I think that many of you on the list are natives in your body and/or soul. >Who feels this? >Every time they pave paradise and. . . >"Paving over brave little parks. . . " ( that line breaks me) > >What kinds of experiences have made you feel this? >It would be nice for a few of us to get together and try to sing and play it. >It is so different. >It is in my heart. . . . wow. >Don't you hear the shrieking in the trees, the whimpering water >No fracking in ny state , no fracking in arkansas, no fracking in china. . No >fracking in Colorado, no fracking in the world. . >(If I sound like a crazy person, it is because it has brought me to this. . . >And perhaps I am) >Smile (I do need some drugs, or maybe just some activism) (or both) >Thank you joni, this song is amazing. > >I am Lakota >Lakota! >Looking at money man >Diggin' the deadly quotas >Out of balance >Out of hand >We want the land! >Lay down the reeking ore >Don't you hear the shrieking in the trees? >Everywhere you touch the earth she's sore >Every time you skin her all things weep >Your money mocks us >Restitution what good can it do? >Kennelled in metered boxes >Red dogs in debt to you > >I am Lakota! >Lakota! >Fighting among ourselves >All we can say with one whole heart >Is we won't sell >No we'll never sell >We want the land! >The lonely coyote calls >In the woodlands footprints of the deer >In the barrooms poor drunk bastard falls >In the courtrooms deaf ears sixty years >You think we're sleeping but >Quietly like rattlesnakes and stars >We have seen the trampled rainbows >In the smoke of cars > >I am Lakota >Brave >Sun pity me >I am Lakota >Broken >Moon pity me >I am Lakota >Grave >Shadows stretching >Lakota >Oh pity me >I am Lakota >Weak >Grass pity me >I am Lakota >Faithful >Rocks pity me >I am Lakota >Meek >Standing water >Lakota >Oh pity me > >I am Lakota! >Lakota! >Standing on sacred land >We never sold these Black Hills >To the missile heads >To the power plants >We want the land! >The bullet and the fence broke Lakota >The black coats and the booze broke Lakota >Courts that circumvent choke Lakota >Nothing left to lose >Tell me grandfather >You spoke the fur and feather tongues >Do you hear the whimpering waters >When the tractors come? > >Sun pity me >Mother earth >Mother >Moon pity me >Father sky >Father >Shadows >Stretching on the forest floor >Mother earth >Oh pity me >Father sky >Father >Grass pity me >Mother earth >Mother >Rocks pity me >Father sky >Father >Water >Standing in a wakan manner >Mother earth >Oh pity me > > >"With one whole heart," >Marianne ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1382 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------