how the West was lost by Lashelle Johnson
my family was Western before West was a word we slept on the ground your Spanish, French, English feet trampled you drained the life from our earth replenishing its lost nutrients with our blood you are not Western you immigrated here the land already ‘colonized’ our wealth became your ruins and now you visit the museum in honor of the slaughter
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