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| TO RUBY RAVEN'S AMERICAN INDIAN PAGE a tribute to my fellow natives everywhere |
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| Geronimo |
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| "...Unless you really wanna know, don't ask Geronimo..." Geronimo,Billy Ray Cyrus |
| ABORIGINAL SIN We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty. In this life you find yourself guilty of being who you are. Being yourself, that's Aboriginal Sin, the worst sin of all. That's a sin you'll never be forgiven for. We Indians are all guilty, guilty of being ourselves. We're taught that guilt from the day we're born. We learn it well. To each or my brothers and sisters I say, Be proud of that guilt. You are guilty only of being innocent, of being yourselves, of being Indian, of being human. Your guilt makes you holy. Leonard Peltier |
| "They took the whole Indian nation and locked us on this reservation, took away our native tongue, taught their English to our young..." Indian Reservation, The Raiders |
| "Our work will be unfinished until not one human being is hungry or battered, not a single person is forced to die in war, not one innocent languishes imprisoned, and no one is persecuted for his or her beliefs" Leonard Peltier |
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| RAVENS CRY Up ahead of me An old mans stands, Watching the world go by, He says"Listen to your heart my child." A soft breeze starts to blow, And he speaks again "It will lead you where to go." The old mans face was withered with time And it cringed then smiled in an odd way, "Remember, my daughter, to think of the old ways" He said in a dreamy way- "And when the Great Spirit takes me away, I want you to remember this day." After he spoke these powerful words, He walked down to the river, He sat and sang an old Cherokee song, And by the time the sun had set, My dear old Grandfather had passed away, And the only reason I knew when, Was because I heard a Raven's mornful cry for his lost friend. Silver Thunder Storm |
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| Medicine Man of the Cheyenne |
| Contact with white traders, trappers, and settlers caused a dramatic decline in Native Amercian populatons, In California, disease and deliberate campaigns of extermination on the part of settlers killed 70,000 Native Amercians between 1849 and 1859. In the Great Basin, trappers shot Gosiutes and Paiutes for sport. In Texas, the Karankawas and many other nations in the area largely disappeared. |
| Leonard Peltier |
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| Sioux and White Buffalo |
| "Here me my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun stands I will fight no more forever." Chief Joseph-Nez Perce |
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