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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Nov 29, 2008 ^^
Rating : 4.905 (59/2,423 LTDR)
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One of the most amazing and powerful protest songs ever written. It should be taught in Middle School across America, not just as an examination of the history of our appalling subjugation of the Native Americans which in itself could fill a whole semester but as a way to see that the official story handed out to everyone about most anything might very well have another, completely different story under the officially accepted one. A teaching moment for kids who are often never taught to think or question or analyze in school.
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I thank you for this. I listened while I was 16 and am now 58. I was the top student and got kicked out of History in 1968 for arguing with the teacher over the Native American history I learned through Buffy. When I came back just a few years ago...since 1968 remember...my teacher saw me at a game. He ran up to me and the first words out of his mouth were "I am sorry Barb. You were right. How did you know?" I didn't even have to ask what he was talking about. Thank you Buffy. Thanks for posting
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I was 19, stopped by to visit Joseph and Cass Scaglione in Tampa Florida, and they played me this song by Buffy St. Marie. She is a Native American folk singer, who also recorded many country songs and was an occasional Grand Ole Opry star. My aunt Velma Yearwood LOVED Buffy St. Marie. So here is a piece of "American History" that we were never taught in school.
With our current love affair with greed and petroleum, this is even more true today than it was 55 years ago. God bless the Republicans. They will need it on Judgement day.
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@madelines.7090
4 years ago
I am one of only 400 people surviving from the Susquehanna tribe. There was less than a hundred left of our people after the Pickerton brothers killed my ancestors off. This song always makes me cry and my whole body gets shivers. I cannot describe how it hurts to see how they lie in schools. I spoke up all through out school about the truth Native Americans have gone through. When teachers dared to keep the truth from the students.
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