If I were another

The "Red Indian's" Penultimate Speech to the White Man
Did I say, The Dead?
There is no Death here,
there is only a change of worlds.
- Duwamish Chief Seattle
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Then, we are who we are in the Mississippi. We have what is left to us of yesterday
But the sky's col or has changed, and the sea to the east
has changed, master of white ones! horse master, so what do you want
from those who are going to the trees of the night?
Our souls are high, our pastures sacred, and the stars
are illuminated speech . . . if you stared into them you would read our story entire:
we were born here between water and fire . . . and will become reborn
in the clouds at the edge of the lapis coast after Resurrection . . . soon.
So do not kill the grass anymore, the grass has a soul in us that defends
the soul in the earth
Horse master! train your horse to apologize
to nature's soul for what you have done to our trees:
Ah! my tree my sister
they have tortured you as they have tortured me
do not ask forgiveness
for the logger of your mother and mine . . .