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Redwood Tree [song by clarita zarate]
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Redwood clarita Tree [song by zarate]
Automatically translated into English thanks to WorldLingo
Is wrote this song because when 19 Is was or 20. It is inspired by my own experience ace to child. I to never had an easy Time AT school.

Redwood Tree

1-I to wonder why the kids AT school don't like me?
I to wonder why nobody is my friend?
They chase me through the streets of the big City,
until they to corner me AT the dead end.

Chorus
If I had my way
you know that I would to rather sees
bird flying free in the sky.
If I had my way
you know that I would to rather sees
redwodd tree
Then nobody would bother me.

2-I always get E's on my report card
and nobody picks for me their games.
I guess they appears that I'd sees problem
Under nobody wants me on their team.

chorus
If I had my way
you know that I would to rather sees
bird flying free in the sky.
If I had my way
you know that I would to rather sees
redwood tree
Then nobody would bother me.


3-Someday I hope that men will know
you don't hate people just because to their slow
or they don't to wear to suit and tie
and to their not nice because they plows black or white.

chorus
If I had my way
you know that I would to rather sees
bird flying free in the sky.
If I had my way
you know that I would to rather sees
redwood tree
Then nobody would bother me.

4-The lucky ones plows those who have nonFortune
or to pleasure house that's made of solid gold.
These plows the ones who know what real love is
And makes it can't sees bought or sould.

chorus
And If I had my way
you know that I would to rather sees
bird flying free in the sky.
Yes If I had my way
you know that I would to rather sees
redwood tree
under nobody would bother me.


By Clarita
Maybe nobody would to bother me. Trees need our protection if we want to preserves our planet.




November 25, 2007 | 11:32 PM Comments  5 comments

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Native American view of Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving: A Native American View
By Jacqueline Keeler, Pacific News Service. Posted January 1, 2000.

For a Native American, the story of Thanksgiving is not a very happy one. But a member of the Dineh Nation and the Yankton Dakota Sioux finds occasion for hope. An AlterNet Thanksgiving classic.


I celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving.

This may surprise those people who wonder what Native Americans think of this official U.S. celebration of the survival of early arrivals in a European invasion that culminated in the death of 10 to 30 million native people.

Thanksgiving to me has never been about Pilgrims. When I was six, my mother, a woman of the Dineh nation, told my sister and me not to sing "Land of the Pilgrim's pride" in "America the Beautiful." Our people, she said, had been here much longer and taken much better care of the land. We were to sing "Land of the Indian's pride" instead.

I was proud to sing the new lyrics in school, but I sang softly. It was enough for me to know the difference. At six, I felt I had learned something very important. As a child of a Native American family, you are part of a very select group of survivors, and I learned that my family possessed some "inside" knowledge of what really happened when those poor, tired masses came to our homes.

When the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock, they were poor and hungry -- half of them died within a few months from disease and hunger. When Squanto, a Wampanoag man, found them, they were in a pitiful state. He spoke English, having traveled to Europe, and took pity on them. Their English crops had failed. The native people fed them through the winter and taught them how to grow their food.

These were not merely "friendly Indians." They had already experienced European slave traders raiding their villages for a hundred years or so, and they were wary -- but it was their way to give freely to those who had nothing. Among many of our peoples, showing that you can give without holding back is the way to earn respect. Among the Dakota, my father's people, they say, when asked to give, "Are we not Dakota and alive?" It was believed that by giving there would be enough for all -- the exact opposite of the system we live in now, which is based on selling, not giving.

To the Pilgrims, and most English and European peoples, the Wampanoags were heathens, and of the Devil. They saw Squanto not as an equal but as an instrument of their God to help his chosen people, themselves.

Since that initial sharing, Native American food has spread around the world. Nearly 70 percent of all crops grown today were originally cultivated by Native American peoples. I sometimes wonder what they ate in Europe before they met us. Spaghetti without tomatoes? Meat and potatoes without potatoes? And at the "first Thanksgiving" the Wampanoags provided most of the food -- and signed a treaty granting Pilgrims the right to the land at Plymouth, the real reason for the first Thanksgiving.

What did the Europeans give in return? Within 20 years European disease and treachery had decimated the Wampanoags. Most diseases then came from animals that Europeans had domesticated. Cowpox from cows led to smallpox, one of the great killers of our people, spread through gifts of blankets used by infected Europeans. Some estimate that diseases accounted for a death toll reaching 90 percent in some Native American communities. By 1623, Mather the elder, a Pilgrim leader, was giving thanks to his God for destroying the heathen savages to make way "for a better growth," meaning his people.

In stories told by the Dakota people, an evil person always keeps his or her heart in a secret place separate from the body. The hero must find that secret place and destroy the heart in order to stop the evil.

I see, in the "First Thanksgiving" story, a hidden Pilgrim heart. The story of that heart is the real tale than needs to be told. What did it hold? Bigotry, hatred, greed, self-righteousness? We have seen the evil that it caused in the 350 years since. Genocide, environmental devastation, poverty, world wars, racism.

Where is the hero who will destroy that heart of evil? I believe it must be each of us. Indeed, when I give thanks this Thursday and I cook my native food, I will be thinking of this hidden heart and how my ancestors survived the evil it caused.

Because if we can survive, with our ability to share and to give intact, then the evil and the good will that met that Thanksgiving day in the land of the Wampanoag will have come full circle.

And the healing can begin.

Jacqueline Keeler is a member of the Dineh Nation and the Yankton Dakota Sioux. Her work has appeared in Winds of Change, an American Indian journal.


http://www.alternet.org/story/4391/

November 21, 2007 | 9:02 PM Comments  0 comments

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I Myself/ Yo Misma

ENGLISH
I listen to myself as if I were a friend.

I write to myself as if there were no seperation.

As if,

I had concieved myself.

I love myself,

As if,

it were all an illusion.

By Clarita Zarate


ESPANOL

Me escucho como si fuera una amistad.

Me escribo como si no hubiera separacion.

Como si yo misma

me concebi.

Me amo como si todo fuera

Solo una illusion.


Por CLarita Zarate







November 17, 2007 | 12:15 PM Comments  2 comments

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A Word Crosses Over

A word crosses over.
It walks across a pencil bridge,
Naked, with only shoes
that are new but don't fit.

The journey is long,
the ink gets thinner,
It's pulse rises.
It fears it might be lost forever
To a beat that has no heart.

When it arrives,
there are many strange letters.
None of them seem to connect
jumping every which way
and making strange gutteral sounds.....

The word is handed a new suit.
It feels crippled.....
Or is it them?

by Clarita Zarate







November 17, 2007 | 11:53 AM Comments  1 comments

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BEING YOU
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BEING YOU
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BEING YOU

PEOPLE DON'T LIKE WHAT THEY THINK YOU SHOULDN'T SEES.
BUT WHEN YOU DARE TO SEES IT,
THEY LIKE WHAT THEY SEE!

by,
Clarita Zarate



It's not what they think-but how we think.


November 7, 2007 | 11:11 AM Comments  7 comments

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