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I haven't seen Mama since my First Communion
That's the only memory that I really have
It'd been a long time since I heard my language
It smelled like whiskey and it sounded sad
When she pulled me close and said we'd be together
I said don't cry Mama cause I'll see you soon
When I turned 18 the sisters pulled me over
Said 'your Mama died one summer in the month of June'
My daddy was a dime-store 'drunken Indian'
They said he sеrved the country in the Sеcond World War
Fighting for the freedom in the old Dominion
He came back a hero without knowing what for
They sent the white boys back to the girls they'd marry
To the towns they lived in to their farms and fields
But his plane touched down on a childless prairie
And a broken woman who had to work for her meals
And it was twenty years later when I tried to find him
The social workers told me that he'd probably died
Given me up on account of his drinking
I'll never know how hard they really tried
I was living with a man who hit me once too often
On the edge of Green River in a one room shack
To this very day I don't remember what happened
But he never got up the time I hit him back
There were lots of women like me when I went to prison
We were from different places we broke the same rules
We'd all lost our languages families and children
We were middle-aged orphans from the residence schools
I don't believe in justice like I do in healing
I don't believe you can heal a person with a lie
But you can't heal a person doesn't know he's human
And it was in that prison that I learned to cry
Tonight I'll light a candle and I'll pray for my mother
Pray for my people pray for their dreams
Sit beside that candle with my son and my daughter
Pray they never have to see the things I've seen
When they moved a People like they'd move some cattle
From the land of the rivers to a fenced-in dream
Generations of people stolen from each other
Well I'm living for them now and I'm doing it clean
I'm living for them now and I'm doing it clean
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Indio Saravanja

Indio Saravanja

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