forgotten Samuel Carroll I was here first, before your people were brought here on ships made to work for stolen freedom, before your people discovered untold riches in Columbus's "India." God birthed me form these lands. Tomahawks and teepees don't define me, nor my people, nor my poetry. As a matter of fact forget definitions because I couldn't begin to define the single, pointed, refined emotion that my people felt for being limited to reservations of their own land. It's a shame my people were worth less than dirt is. Questioning our God's purpose, Hell was sent upon us in the Louisiana Purchase. Europeans bought lands and fought clans, fighting for what they felt was theirs. And so, ignorant greed makes the world go round.
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