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7th GENERATION
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Think of the seventh generation
Think of the seventh generation
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Standing Rock lives, Water Is
Standing Rock lives, Water Is
No DAPL
No DAPL
No DAPL
No DAPL
Water is sacred, Water & Life Protector’s peaceful prayers
Water is sacred, Water & Life Protector’s peaceful prayers
Resist, Rebel, Divest, Disrupt
Resist, Rebel, Divest, Disrupt
We are sacred spirit, peaceful, positive, powerful, perfect
We are sacred spirit, peaceful, positive, powerful, perfect
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Drum beat
Mini Wichoni
Standing Rock is everywhere, Standing Rock is everyone
Standing Rock is everywhere, Standing Rock is everyone
Standing Rock is all of us, Standing Rock is all of us
All of us
All of us
All of us
All of us
Water is our Children’s lives, Water is all life
Water is our Children’s lives, Water is all life
Water is our Children’s lives, Water is all life
Water is our Children’s lives, Water is all life
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Sacred Water Sacred Life, Sacred our Children’s lives
Sacred Water Sacred Life, Sacred our Children’s lives
Sacred Water Sacred Life, Sacred our Children’s lives
Sacred Water Sacred Life, Sacred our Children’s lives
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Resist, Divest, Disrupt, IMPEACH
Resist, Divest, Disrupt, IMPEACH
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Sacred Water Sacred Life, Sacred our Children’s lives
Sacred Water Sacred Life, Sacred our Children’s lives
Sacred Water Sacred Life, Sacred our Children’s lives
Sacred Water Sacred Life, Sacred our Children’s lives
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
Mini Wichoni
LA LALALALALALALALALALAL!!!!
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1 lil, 2 lil, 3 lil Indians
4 lil, 5 lil, 6 lil Indians
7 lil, 8 lil, 9 lil Indians
10 little token Indians
Token Indian
Token Indian
Beadwork & drum
Shuffle feet, dance for dinner
& beadwork scum
Dance for dinner, sing for dinner, drum for dinner
Little token Indian
1 lil, 2 lil, 3 lil Indians
Our mere existance is political
Our mere existance is political
From the moment of conception
2 lil, 3 lil, 4 lil Indians
Don't tell me to be APOLITICAL
DON'T TELL ME TO BE APOLITICAL
It's not possible
1 lil, 2 lil, 3 lil Indians
4 lil, 5 lil, 6 lil Indians
7 lil, 8 lil, 9 lil Indians
I WON'T BE
YOUR
TOKEN INDIAN
LALALALALALALAAAAAA!
FIRST NATION PEOPLE!!!
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I walk towards center, short cement bridge: look across water, glistening surface, glinting rays off gently flowing waves, warm sunlight, river waving like flag in calm breeze, smooth rhythm, light glimmers, glances onto my face, eyes, blue car passes, relative whoop greetings; a perfect “Spring of Autumn” day; one of those that reverse and confuse senses and momentum causing branches within to germinate, sprouting tiny blossoms out of season…another reason;
Then come blizzards, ice; futures.
I cross bridge of water cannons before echo can be heard in our hearts though it has always been here. I step across narrow plank over small ditch, trickling stream drains towards river bank. I step towards river’s edge, whisper prayer “Thank you water for being here.”, place feet into silt languidly parting to accept. I immerse myself, swim a dance; a newly formed frog, relatives on shore stand, sit, laugh, talk.
People from all configurations united here to save WATER.
Tents and teepees lining shores. Friends from Red Warrior camp train peacefully to sacrifice their bodies for water, for life.
They yell “Mini Wichoni!!” People sit on hill beyond them with their vigilant phone, reporting truth to the world. River, shore, bridge, hill, people before:
Concussion bombs, smoke grenades, ice-water cannons, missile launchers,
Toxic chemicals dumped from planes onto peacefully praying water protectors: UNARMED PEOPLE
Before rubber bullets ruthlessly blasted into unarmed people’s faces, hands, backs as target practice, 3rd degree burns from close range tear gassings, taser barbs through faces, heart stopping hypothermia
Before kidnappings of thousands of people from their Soveirgn lands, they’re illegal imprisonment
Before the torture
America; before the 2017 New Nazi Dictator
Before the repeal of all human rights laws, the regression of civil rights, open U.S. apartheid, nationwide riots, famine
Before unrelenting ACTIONS by millions who refuse to allow tyranny
Before California’s gathering THE ARMY OF MIILIONS from every country and tradition world over
Before the bloody 2nd Civil War for Civil Rights
Before the New Nazi’s being driven out, the closure of all prison industrial complexes, the freeing of all political prisoners
Before awakened and ever vigilant human humanity prevailing once again over treachery, brutality and insanity
The bridge
Before peacefully praying people kneeling there
Before predatory, sadistic, mercenaries preying there
Before thousands of veterans come to support precious WATER in her call for protection: hunkered down in strange icy igloos in the moments between fear and calm, war and peace
In tents buried in below zero temperatures, deep in snow,
snow; water to come, snow into water,
water to flood the flood plain, bringing futures to come
BEFORE, BEFORE, BEFORE
I float, face to sky, carried by gentle currents
A perfect ‘Spring of Autumn” day
One of those that reverse and confuse the senses and momentum
Causing branches within to germinate and sprout tiny blossoms out of season…Another reason
I give thanks for the soothing water carrying me,
this river, this water, this life
We are here in love of you mother water, mother earth, mother life, mother gods, mother peace Thank you for being and bringing us LIFE.
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Radical Medicine.Theatre Movement International Oakland, California
deCoyGallerina
MiguelGarcia
MarkPino
RudradeepChakrabarti, MC Tender Surrender
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