Joni Mitchell
Lakota (1988) Chalk mark in a rainstorm
I am Lakota!
Lakota!
Looking at money man
Diggin' the deadly quotas
Out of balance
Out of hand
We want the land!
Lay down the reeking ore!
Don't you hear the shrieking in the trees?
Everywhere you touch the earth - she's sore
Every time you skin her all things weep
Your money mocks us
Restitution
what good can it do?
Kennelled in metered boxes
Red dogs in debt to you
I am Lakota!
Lakota!
Fighting among ourselves
All we can say with one whole heart
Is we won't sell --
No we'll never sell
We want the land!
The lonely coyote calls
In the woodlands -- footprints of the deer
In the barrooms -- poor drunk bastard falls
In the courtrooms -- deaf ears -- sixty years
You think we're sleeping -- but
Quietly like rattlesnakes and stars
We have seen the trampled rainbows
In the smoke of cars
I am Lakota
Brave
Sun pity me
I am Lakota
Broken
Moon pity me
I am Lakota
Grave
Shadows stretching
Lakota
Oh pity me
I am Lakota
Weak
Grass pity me
I am Lakota
Faithful
Rocks pity me
I am Lakota
Meek
Standing water
Lakota
Oh pity me
I am Lakota!
Lakota!
Standing on sacred land
We never sold these Black Hills
To the missile-heads --
To the power plants
We want the land!
The bullet and the fence -- broke Lakota
The black coats and the booze -- broke Lakota
Courts that circumvent -- choke Lakota
Nothing left to lose
Tell me grandfather
You spoke the fur and feather tongues --
Do you hear the whimpering waters
When the tractors come?
A história de uma nação índia que se resume assim (Wikipedia):
Native Americans have a long history in the Black Hills. After conquering the Cheyenne in 1776, the Lakota took the territory of the Black Hills, which became central to their culture. In 1868, the U.S. government signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, establishing the Great Sioux Reservation west of the Missouri River, and exempting the Black Hills from all white settlement forever. However, when settlers discovered gold there in 1874, as a result of George Armstrong Custer's Black Hills Expedition, miners swept into the area in a gold rush. The US government took the Black Hills and, in 1889, reassigned the Lakota, against their wishes, to five smaller reservations in western South Dakota, selling off 9 million acres of their former land.
Portanto, questões legais de tratados são depois tratados de acordo com as conveniências.
Poderia ter sido o ouro, poderia ter sido o alojamento de refugiados, poderia ter sido uma pandemia... não importa o pretexto, nem o texto.
Interessa o nº de munições que tem para tratar que os tratados sejam bem tratados.
O resto é tretado!
Joni Mitchell participou em 1988, numa manifestação reclamando os Black Hills, que seriam "para sempre" dos Lakota, e que como pequena provocaçãozinha, incluiram as caras presidenciais esculpidas nos seu Monte Rushmore (esculturas feitas entre 1927 e 1941).
Outra provocação menos simpática teve a ver com joelhos feridos, nomeadamente:
Wounded-Knee Massacre (1890)
Wounded-Knee Occupation (1973)
As formas como as palavras são usadas, diz muito sobre o tipo de bicho que está presente, cheio de moral ou de mural.
Em casos mais sintomáticos, chamar "Carta de Direitos Humanos" a uma imposição de Censura, é como garantir que o paciente tem o direito de agradecer ao executor a pena que lhe irá ser aplicada... um prodígio da literatura da demência num estado avançado (para quem não percebeu, note que se deverá ler "num Estado Avançado").
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