Indigenous Thinkers

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Suddenly, with the invention of the United States, ensuing the flood of immigrants, from which most Americans are descendants of, these homesteaders, immigrants, and colonizers who

translated a word,

transformed an idea,

created a new idea,

the idea of extinction,

the loss of experience in this world,

the loss of family,

the loss of the right to grow old.

because

the "others": the original immigrants,

the colonizer has flooded your place,

your home,

your land

and relocated you to another world,

redefined the boundaries

re-defined and categorized

by the man with a gun

his wife with a book.

--ShadowWalker, 2004