No matter how much I read and study I will never understand the way we treated the indigenous people…the first ones to live upon this land.
I wish I could go back and change the past…amend our history…but, alas, time only moves forward…and that is not to be.
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And then I add my own prayer: That no one ever be made to feel small… and that all these things I pray for… will be indigenous to us all.Loveliest concluded 5 Stars full
Jim, I share your feelings about the shabby way the Native Americans were treated. In fact, I am reading a book right now by a Native American called 'Custer Died for Your Sins'. I am voting your poem five stars.
Extremely well written! I have already read it twice!