DON'T FORGET THE FIRST PEOPLE WHO LIVED HERE; ON WHOSE LAND THIS COUNTRY WAS CREATED. AS LONG AS THE AMERICAN INDIANS STILL SUFFER WITH AVERAGES 80% UNEMPLOYMENT, LACK OF NUTRITIONAL FOOD, HEALTH CARE, FREEZE IN WINTER, HAVE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF APPOX.50 YEARS, THEN CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY WITH GRATITUDE IN YOUR HEART THAT YOU HAVE WHAT YOU DO, NO MATTER HOW HUMBLE YOUR LIFE IS. WRITE TO THOSE IN GOVT. TO DEMAND BETTER BY THIS NATION TOWARDS THE INDIANS. I FEEL THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO HONOR THE DAY TO BRING THIS TO OUR LEADERS ATTENTION, AGAIN. I HONOR THIS LAND AND THOSE WHO BRING OUT THE BEST IN AMERICA. THE GREED AND RAPE MUST STOP! WE MUST RIGHT THE WRONGS.
Buffy Sainte-Marie...My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying THIS IS A POWERFUL SONG, I REALIZE MANY WANT TO CELEBRATE, THE 4TH, "WE THE PEOPLE" MUST LOOK DEEP INTO IT'S HEART. LEARN WELL THESE LESSONS INFLICTED UPON THE INDIAN, AS THE CORPORATIONS, BANKERS, AND OTHER ELITES ARE NOW DOING TO ALL SIMILAR THAT WAS DONE TO THEM, RAPING THE LAND, DISRESPECT, LOSS OF JOBS, HOMES, POISON IN OUR FOOD, TOYS, LARGEST PRISON POPULATION IN WORLD, LOSS OF RIGHTS. Hmmm...
Keshagesh is a Cree word, and it meansits what youd call a little puppy who eats all his own and then everybody elses. You know the kind? Yeah? So its a metaphor for environmental greed. Buffy Sainte-Marie IN LIGHT OF WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE FINANCERS WHO GAMBLED WITH THE WORLDS ECONOMY, THE GULF OIL DISASTER, THE WARS FOR OIL, THE LEADERS BOUGHT OFF OR PROFITING TOO, I THOUGHT THIS WAS VERY APPROPRIATE.