Charlie Buckland: To all people who know that Earth and they are one and whose life it is to struggle against oppression
Deep in the recesses of your mind lies the consensus trance that you own our lands. The threat to that insecurity is a spiritual
consciousness of man-made laws becoming
irrelevant.
Possessive thoughts are a vanity Mother Earth
cannot anymore afford.
We are the humans who have become human
beings. Those who deny our presence are swept away
like the nuclear dust they admire.
Against the odds we have survived the illusion
It has become our legacy unheard
We have resisted the apologetic predator.
We have survived those who have eaten the dust
and bones of our ancestors.
In the silence of your world I know you.
We are here.
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Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Oyate Tokaheya Wicakiye www.FirstVoicesIndigenousRadio.org
Tiokasin Ghosthorse: Lakota flute maker/player, speaker, activist
Tiokasin Tasunke Wanagi -translated into English: "Ghosthorse Spirit
Coming In". I also have another Lakota name Oyate TokaheyaWicakiye
meaning "His Nation Comes First or He Thinks of the People First". Isa spiritual agitator, natural rights organizer, Indigenous thinking process educator, and community activator.