"Indian Children Used to Play"

[newo]

Long ago when I was in grade school we would recite this poem like a nursery rhyme. Now it sounds more like a funeral dirge.

"Where we walk to school each day,

Indian children used to play-

All about our native land,

Where the shops and houses stand,

And the trees were very tall,

And there were no streets at all

Not a church and not a steeple,

Only woods and Indian people.

Only wigwams on the ground

And at night bears prowling round-

What a different place today

Where we live and work and play!

[FreeBird1969]

:( I've read up a lot on the Eastern band of Cherokee here in the Carolinas. Sad, sad stories. If you visit the reservation, it's even sadder.

[tigerlily]

it's crazy how cynical some old nursery rhymes and fairy tales are...

[HonorSeed]

tis true, some old nursery rhymes and fairy tales are cynical. what I don't like also is the way full length cartoons, some Disney did, are full of a moral message of these times. Especially some made after Walt Disney passed on.

[HonorSeed]

I have seen many visions fairy tales are made of....don't get me wrong about not appeciating some people contact in dreams and awake telepathically, I think this gift comes from a time when I did not try to summon up the visions of the forest. I asked the tree spirits why I never saw children spirits..and I would like to see some..and lo and behold...a little later..a few children were a leaping thru a sunny portal window on the crest of a hill.

[Forgotten-holocaust]

read this somewhere can't remember were

eventhough the message sad it makes a good read
does anyone have an idea who wrote it?

[indian~summer]

it makes me so angry what was done and is still done to the aboriginal people of canada :mad:
fucking government...honestly i wish harm upon no one but fuck i would definitely do something terrible if giving the chance to our government for what they've done/doing
i feel very connected to the aboriginal spiritual way of life and it just bothers me so much....
:(

[GermanLoveMachine]

it makes me so angry what was done and is still done to the aboriginal people of canada :mad:
fucking government...honestly i wish harm upon no one but fuck i would definitely do something terrible if giving the chance to our government for what they've done/doing
i feel very connected to the aboriginal spiritual way of life and it just bothers me so much....
:(
OK, but do you REALLY think the world would be a better place if the US and Canada would be ruled by some indian tribes today ?????

[heron]

Poor peaceful indians.....good thing you all dont buy into stereotypes!