They are the first Americans the fact with us remain <br />Yet from foreign invasion they did not stand to gain <br />None of them has become U S President strange as that may seem to be <br />But to be the first Americans is their proud history <br />The colonization of any Country to some a historic thing <br />But of the colonization of any Country the praises should we sing <br />Humiliated and condemned to reservations by colonial regime command <br />The cruelness of colonizers seem hard to understand <br />What has happened to the First Americans has happened to Indigenous people everywhere <br />At the hands of the oppressive colonizers of the bigger World out there <br />Their land was taken from them the bison they lived on all but wiped out <br />On the worthiness on history built on colonization one has to cast some doubt <br />One of them has never become President of their Country the U S A <br />But for being the first Americans respect to them we ought to pay.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-first-americans/
