Pride and Comfort

Pride and comfort
brings tears and joy
knowing one day
we who remember and respect
the old ones
will follow the path to
the ancestry land
where the water is clean
and words pure,
where regalia is not costumes
and Indian faces are not mascots,
where people of all nations and bloods
will be reborn with the land.

Languages of the tribes once silent
are spoken again with dignity and purpose
carried by electric impulse on wires
and whispers of wind,
dances and songs are sent through the air
on television broadcast waves
and the call of the
eagle
for the rolling thunder is the
voice of all who carry red blood
holding faith with Great Spirit
and the power in the old ways,
listening to the ancestors
for that will bring us back to the circle

4/28/2000



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