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The aboriginal americans
by Lewis W Findley → (All Poetry by Lewis W Findley)
Friday, July 8, 2016    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Inspired while listening to a Hopi Indian radio online radio station ( as I know it) in Arizona
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Our great native Americans
Who lived upon this wide great land
To them the white man owes so much
For example and thus and such
The very land on which we stand
Belonged at once to the red man.
The Indians and the cowboys
No. The wars brought but tears not joy.
Have we become too blind to see.
The reason we are truly free.
The great and wondrous sacrifice
Of those who didn't stop think twice.
Indians aborigines.
On this land . The land of the free 

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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on July 9, 2016
I often think about them to, and how they honored the land and its animal populations the way that my ancestors, Europeans, didn't. Most of those with native blood that I know, don't mind the term, Indian. But they do mind what we are doing to our natural world.

Ron

Reviewed by Lewis Findley
Reviewed on July 9, 2016
Hi Jane. I have always believed we owe a huge debt of gratitude to our aboriginal Americans. I don't call them Indians because that is referential to another country. Lewis

Reviewed on July 8, 2016
Intense writing and thought provoking indeed! Great write!

Love ya!

Jane


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