(Again supplied by Munz)"Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race – small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule." -- Chief Sitting Bull, speaking at the Powder River Conference in 1877
The secret move is Ghost Dance
1877 was also the year of the great railway strike. I saw a great editorial cartoon from that year showing America surrounded by it's enemies, Indians, Trade Unionists, immigrant anarchists, and negroes. I'm proud to still be doing my bit as part of that alliance. I wonder If Sitting Bull ever met Terrence Powderly?
ReplyDeleteWe were here first,
ReplyDeleteno ceiling to separate our blue doors from the sky,
no horses to graze where our deer used to graze,
no strangers bursting in on the night of our wives.
O give the wind a flute to weep for the people
of this wounded place,
and tomorrow to weep for you.
And tomorrow to weep for you.
From "Speech of the Red Indian"
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1942, Al Birwa, Palestine - ,9 August 2008 Houston.