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Life of a Native

Life of a Native
[2019]
Song By: Okema
Released as a Music Video
Instrumental By: Boogey The Beat
Mixed, Mastered & Directed By: Blu Barry
Elder Speaking: Floyd Red Crow Westerman

A song about both the history the white American colonial state prepared for the natives and the role natives attribute themselves.

"Through our chiefs and our elders we are guided
Divided we fall but together stand united
For our earth and our water we will fight it
Our mother earth is crying and now you cant deny it
We are not the enemy that we're said to be
We're thinking of the generation that's ahead of me
So we'll continue to take the earth back for all of us
White Black or Brown well together we should stand up!"

On his Facebook page Okema writes:

'When I wrote Life of a Native I did a lot of research because I knew that in order to connect with my people I had to go to the darkness that has plagued my... (Continues)
[Spoken Intro by Floyd Red Crow Westerman]
(Continues)
Contributed by Pierre-André Lienhard 2025/8/17 - 19:17




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