Legacy of the Indian

Did the People of the Plains

Pray to God?

To the spirits of their ancestors,

the forest, and the hawk?

Did they dance

for the birth of the new seedlings,

And weep

for the death of the mighty oak?

Were they born in hides of deer

and buried in skins of buffalo?

Did the People of the Plains walk on healthy earth

leaving tracks beside the wild horse?

Did they sing praises of the land and spirit?

Young Master, the People of the Plains

vanished long ago with the Buffalo and the Elm.

The feathers of the eagle worn in their hair

were scorched black as the white man's heart.

They once ran with the wild stallions

until they were marched on the on a path of tears and sweat,

and the guns of the white man

crushed the seedlings, and felled the mighty oak.

The people of the plains did pray to god.

They prayed to the spirits of their ancestors,

The forest, and the hawk.

But their ancestors have no ears, the forest is burned down,

and the hawk has fallen from the sky.

Young master, the People of the Plains

once sung with the blood of the earth in their veins.

a song, so pure and so fragile,

so easily shattered.

Who can hear it?

As it now remains as no more than a whisper on the wind.