Story Keeper The cowboys have tried to write Indian histories and attempt But our ways of Knowing and Being Are stronger than a 500 year coup Besides Pilgrim We looked deadly on those wild horses too Only birch tree biographies speak truth to our… Grandeur and elegance Our sophistication and beauty The birch trees keep our stories They are the black ink writers of… Star readers and buffalo lovers Water carriers and sunrise singers Medicine makers and fire keepers Navigators Scientartists Right now the birch are busy documenting… Miracle Bodies Meeting in never immemorial gathering places City streets meeting warrior heartbeats The coup Under thousands of well dressed Anishinaabe feet We don’t need headline or stage We are the story We are the rage And the birch scrolls turn their page And the giants breathe us in
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