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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=559833" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>It's The Conquerors Who Write The History</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As they chased the wild bison on horse back they whooped and cheered loud<br>And they were great hunters so noble and proud<br>But now on the prairies the bison are rare<br>And the people who hunted them no longer there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of the great Northern Land the first people till the invaders came<br>And their tragic dispossession is a thing of great shame<br>Conquered and put into reservations for to grow old and die<br>The rights of Indigenous people to them did not apply.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's the conquerors who write history as we have been told<br>And men they have murdered for Land and for Gold<br>But what matters most when history we trace<br>That a Country's first people must take pride of place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You great country singers with your golden guitars, <br>You politicians and tycoons and billionaire movie stars<br>There once was a people far greater than you<br>And to Mother Nature they were far more true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the workings of Nature they did understand<br>And they were the people who cared for the Land<br>And they were displaced and oppressed and down trod<br>By those who believed in a different God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They once were great warriors, wise, noble and proud<br>And they gave us Chief Seattle and wise Chief White Cloud<br>And their profound words of wisdom still living today<br>And such things of great beauty will never decay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The truth may seem bitter but the truth we must face<br>That a Country's first people should take pride of place<br>And around the World Indigenous people are not treated well<br>Though they have such marvellous stories to tell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The conquerors write the history as conquerors do<br>But to the true history they never are true<br>And the conquered the history never will write<br>And we are conditioned to believe that might is always right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The changes keep happening and nothing seem to last<br>And the great herds of bison a thing of the past<br>And those who once hunted them were locked away<br>And in reservations were forced for to stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out on the lone prairie their ghosts still reside<br>At midnight the hunters their spotted horses ride<br>As they chase the wild bison across the great plain<br>The past in the moonlight comes to life again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q>
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