Category Archives: Indigenous People

Secretive savagery

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Rex Tyler

There is one true angel Of mammalian descent Perhaps the true vegan Who shares its consent At the meadows of sea grass Where sparseness is true In those hollows of greenery Dugongs do chew Secretive long lived Thoughtful they be … Continue reading →

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A personal appeal

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Rex Tyler

When you are yellow and brown And don’t wear a gown A helmeted turtle Sometimes a frown Is all you can muster And the reason for that When the water is dank And not where it’s at The Biripi people … Continue reading →

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Wallaby dead flesh

Posted on February 15, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Wallaby on the bone Wallaby mince Purveyors are everywhere Waiting to convince The public at large Nutritionally That dead flesh Is good tasting and principally Game meat, exotic For people and pets And a vast mortality Really that sets Badly … Continue reading →

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Mary Borgstrom

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Rex Tyler

A potter and an Artist A need to excavate A mindful glimpse through history A medieval gait To primitive beginnings The Bygone forgotten days Retroactive thinking And all the many ways She was part of Nature Respecting each event An … Continue reading →

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Sami

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Unfathomable to Western eyes A boundlessness beyond The landscape where forever The sky and land our bond The silence of embracing snow Tumultuous regard A life immense and colourful Though increasingly hard The reindeer is a godly beast A frequenter … Continue reading →

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Clutching at straws

Posted on August 30, 2019 by Rex Tyler

We sit together Whilst all around The crackling heat The dry parched ground Such bad theatre No dialogue The final curtain Perhaps the dog And the primates cower The Indigenous too The tragedy Is coming true Impersonating The acrobat The … Continue reading →

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ROOPKUND LAKE

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Rex Tyler

In the Uttarakhand state of India Thirty feet wide and six feet deep A high altitude glacial lake exists At the bottom of mountains steep In 1942 a British Forest Guard Stumbled on the lake and took a look The … Continue reading →

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The Caru and their fight for survival

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Our thinking is beyond us The risks that some will take Because it helps their balance sheet And they also like their cake Their head is full of matter Not in essence grey Or even green remember What it is … Continue reading →

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A look at the Mari people

Posted on June 8, 2019 by Rex Tyler

A time of darkness rules the Volga river Places where Mari people close to land and forest Tried to share A closeness to the landscape Animists were they Believing there were spirits In their environment the way Was open for … Continue reading →

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“Evil begins with the hooting of an OWL”

Posted on June 7, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Some 30,000 Aka people Live in the CONGO they Are purely forest dwellers In the warm light of each day Pygmies under five feet tall A faith and way of being Undeniably indigenous And genuinely all seeing The forest is … Continue reading →

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Vianet D’jenguet of “MY CONGO” fame

Posted on June 2, 2019 by Rex Tyler

A sensitive soul Who sees wildness like children do What is just realness Creation and more Touched by the sadness Moved by the gladness A tangible reason He says to adore The Congo “My Congo” across the great river Where … Continue reading →

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Gerardo Tkachenko-Papizh

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Rex Tyler

A unique sound of naturalness Songbirds insects we Listen to the utterances And muffled shrieks that be Exclaiming a perfection Humming warbling cooing Madrigals of harmony Lingering and viewing Hearkening a labyrinth Ethereal it be Breath beyond sensation Thinking out … Continue reading →

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Native rights are one thing

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Rex Tyler

There is apathy and imperturbability The islanders and the Aboriginals do Hunt for dugong in amongst the eel grass And the sea turtles spearing them, its true These are rare and sensitive beautiful animals Native rights is one thing but … Continue reading →

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The local hero

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Six days it took him From 6 to six In a raging heat With spade and picks Nicholas Muchemi A labourer he Rebuilt a road Diligently It seems a landowner Decided that they The people were using his land And … Continue reading →

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Netsilik Inuit

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Rex Tyler

What wonders opened out before The nomads The harshest adaptation One could feel The drama and sensation Of their lives out on the sea ice Breathtaking and dramatic And so real. They took on frozen seas And wild cold winds … Continue reading →

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The ancient men

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Dreamtime from the wild imaginations Inventiveness the empathy of soul Insight in an imagery of paintings Rhapsodical and grace like their control Ancestral eyes are peering from the heavens Fabled faces sun drenched wrinkled so Make believe is everything we … Continue reading →

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Cultural genocide

Posted on February 23, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Cultural genocide Corporate strengths Why is this happening They go to great lengths To be so unjust To tbose people who were In occupation So what does occur Nestle the giant Extracts water they In essence are stealing The lifes … Continue reading →

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General disrespect of native women and girls

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Apparently it feels to me That native women seem To have always been in jeopardy As long as the people dream The Indigenous women Tragically seem at risk One has to say And in Winnipeg such violence Seems to happen … Continue reading →

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“Remembering those that are missing”

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Consciousness coupled with soul urge And a reasoning power seemingly Gives purpose and great understanding To deep thought and profundity Raising awareness to a mindful degree About murdered women and the missing That we See among the Indigenous And proud … Continue reading →

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Ngangkari healers

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Kindred spirits Tribal clan AUstaloid Since life began An eminence and supremacy A true command And discovery The Ngangkari healers Apparently Have reached Adelaide, And now they see Their primitiveness And all who be Open to the ancients And all … Continue reading →

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Dugongs and turtles

Posted on October 13, 2018 by Rex Tyler

23 million people Live in Australia 1 million of them hunters It appears Almost 6 million firearms Rifles and shot guns All of these and bows Would raise my fears Being a wild kangaroo Or dingo Lots of introduced Creatures … Continue reading →

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Respect indigenous people

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Rex Tyler

How easy it appears To kick a blind mans cane away To steel a pittance from a poor man On a foggy day The rich man’s jiggery pokery With phantom stocks and shares Can grab a pensioners savings As he … Continue reading →

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BANGLADESH and the open cast coal disaster

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Phulbari in Northern Bangladesh The rice bowl of their soul Wonderful agricultural land Where the Santal take their role An indigenous tribe of people Ancestral their belief Worshipping their idols And the natural world True grief To hear the British … Continue reading →

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The indigenous women

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Its the unnatural tsunami Great waves roll in and they Are smothered by the incitement That can often come their way A cultural confusion A lack of what is real The pre-existing formula That genuine appeal Historical and grounded Familial … Continue reading →

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Boarding schools

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Rex Tyler

A reluctance to be humane And a refusal to care Indisposed and grudging Totally unaware Native children matter They are people of the earth They live where they found Themselves And give back all their worth These boarding schools Of … Continue reading →

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Dugongs and Turtles

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Rex Tyler

So many nations have a blindspot Its appears to me Gifted with creative forces Whether on land or sea Australia has many Iconic creatures she Is blaise about their existence And their right to be Under Native Titles Indigenous people … Continue reading →

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Dr Birute

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The worlds true primate angel A scholar of the wild Clearly her enlightenment Begun as a child Her grasp and her awareness A perception of the great Acquaintanceship with the red apes And there can be no debate This women … Continue reading →

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BRUJAS

Posted on August 3, 2018 by Rex Tyler

In many ways so many have reached an impasse Ancestors became the forgotten past What is seen as corporatocracy That has no reciprocity That really is in conflict An aghast We stand together some now at the crossroads Disharmony and … Continue reading →

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Hopes and dreams and genocide

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Below the lowest of poverty lines And families all destroyed by war The monetary system dismantled A country that lost all its law Genocide ravaged the whole population At least twenty five per cent killed Pol Pot saw to complete … Continue reading →

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The Canned/TrophyHunter and the Indigenous counterpart

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The wild uncomplicated threat Of hunting in the raw Of understanding nature And what its all here for Of making ones own weaponry And squaring up to be Equal to the foe out there Whoever that may be For them … Continue reading →

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