Pages not written

Dusty echoes from blood drenched soil, names written in clouds of the sky

Unremembered patriots, warriors and heroes erased from the public eye

Bloody Fellow, Crazy horse, Double Head, Hanging Maw, Geronimo

Galvarino, Cornplanter, Gall, Hole in the day, Chief Joseph, Little Crow

An English name to give them shame for a native tongue we don't understand

Nenetooyah, Incalatanga, Uskwaliguta, Goyaale, Thasunke Witko, Tamanend

Kaintwakon, Phizi, Bugonaykishig, Hinmuuttu-yalatlat, Tahlonteeskee

All heroes of their people, people erased from white pages of history

Sequoya a genius, developed the Cherokee written word, a work of mastery

A buried credit he received, for him we named a tree