millions of dollars from casinos
that aboriginal people of minnesota
wait to recover
from the deluded
get rich quick dreamers
will never compare to what was lost
from so-called new world ism
conquest
plunder
genocide
an official government sanctioned policy
the ojibwe still bleed from the bounty hunters
the land & lakes & wild rice
now stifled and commodified
for the twenty-first century
while a mother waits
for a minimum wage job
at a traffic signal on so-called u.s. 2
the many hues of the indigenous
is a continuum of the forest
with historical wisdom
spirit that can't be translated
immersed in color
from the strongest
straightest
tallest jack pine
with bark that's rough
resilient
receptive
to the cries of tradition
tribes and nations
to be whole
--- e b bortz
(published in opednews.com, June 23, 2012)
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