Native American Slave Record Myths Poem by Terence George Craddock

no account records were kept of Indian
slaves estimates range between 147,000
to 340,000 free born Native Americans
were enslaved in North America alone

an estimate excluding Mexico
2.5 million to 5.5 million Natives
enslaved in the entire Americas
civilization rose on slave backs

myth Native American slaves
received little to no mention
disempowered written out of history
forgotten oft classed as African slaves

Abe these were not slaves born enchained
these were native American warriors destined
60,000 to Trail of Tears between 1830 to 1850
16th president you were assassinated in 1865

pre your assassination death cast out imprisoned
in wasteland reservation prisons forgot disowned
Abraham Lincoln had you lived new term served
would you take up Native cause wrongs righted?