RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: NATIVE JUSTICE
Free Peltier
Now that you’ve broken new ground
Appointing a native American
To the council of the Great White Fathers *
An injustice remains to be righted
The last prisoner of the Indian wars
The last heart buried at Wounded Knee **
A man of Lakota blood and pride
Remains in a white man’s cage
Suffering the ravages of disease
Humbled by the indignities of age
Leonard Peltier cries out once again ***
With what was a young man’s rage:
Let me walk once more on native soil
Let me stand once more free and brave
Admit no wrong if it pleases you
Show compassion if you will
But let me not spend another minute
For the men I did not kill
(* Deb Haaland was nominated to serve
in the Biden cabinet. ** The Siege of
Wounded Knee 1973. *** Imprisoned
in 1977, he is 76 today.)
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