Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Indigenous Holocaust






Produced Missy Whiteman IIFM Directed by Missy Whiteman IIFM Indigenous Hip hop artist Wahwahtay Benais music video featuring First Nations United This music video is dedicated to the children who lived and died in boarding schools. LYRICS: Verse 1 Them devils came to the village posing as priests stealing children from they homes took and placed 'em in a school to replace and undo what they labeled as savage before the gates ya long hair sheared tossed in a pile like it was garbage stripped down from ya custom attire ya skin scrubbed till it bleed put his clothes in a fire and bury his items replace 'em with ours give 'em a bible teach 'em to read bleach 'em indeed if he speaks one word of his tongue no songs sung from the homeland wich he learned as a young buck from a old sage in the village to a school made of brick were they plan was to kill 'em save the man was the modo sodomized dramatized gettin beat grueling rations when he eat many died cuz they starved no one notifyed buryed in the yard for not following the cross or officials for my ancestors ya heart beats thru me. Chorus They took his son from his home yeah they pulled 'em apart/ they took her daughter from her home they were forced to depart amongst the others on a train they called the Iron Horse Another Native Fell victim to they holocaust. x2 Verse 2 She came from a family of five she was 9 at the time when they came to pay the people a visit with a man who translated the language they promised beautiful ...
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Eline Hoekstra Dresden visited Loretta Goldy's History course at Portland Community College on May 18th, 2010 to talk about her experiences as a Holocaust survivor. She was accompanied by her daughter Deb Mrowka.
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