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Red Book Unit 3 Ideas and Beliefs To All My Relations



To All My Relations To our elders who teach us of our creation and of our past so that we may preserve it for ancestors yet to come

This is dedicated to our relatives before us, thousands of years ago And to the 150 million who were exterminated across the Western Hemisphere in the first four hundred year's time, starting in 1492

To those who have kept their homelands And to the nations extinct due to mass slaughter, slavery, deportation and disease unknown to them And to the ones who are subjected to the same treatment today

To those who survived the relocations And those who died along the way

To those who carry on traditions and live strong among their people

To those who left their communities by force or by choice and through generations no longer know who they are

To those who search and never find

To those who turn away the so-called "non-accepted"

To those who bring us together <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">And to those living outside, keeping touch, the voice for many

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">To those that make it back to live and fight the struggles of their people

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">To those that give up <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">And those who do not care

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">To those who abuse themselves and others <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">And those who revive again

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">To those who are physically, mentally, <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">or spiritually incapable, by accident or by birth

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">To those who seek strength in our spirituality and way of life

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">To those who exploit it <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">– even our own

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">To those who fall for the lies and join the dividing lines <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">that keep us fighting amongst each other

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">To the outsiders who step in <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">– good or bad <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">And those of us who don't know better

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">To the leaders and prisoners of war, politics, crime, race and religion <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">– innocent or guilty

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">To the young

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">The old

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">The living

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">And the dead

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">To our brothers and sisters in all living things across Mother Earth <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">and her beauty we've destroyed and denied the honour that <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">the Creator has given each individual: <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">The truth that lies in our hearts

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">All my relations