Why must we study them
\nWhy should we be
\nWanting to preach to them
\nYes culturally
\nThey lived as they always lived
\nAnd they should be
\nAllowed to live on like that
\nHonest and free<\/p>\n
We encroach on their space
\nWe change what they do
\nWe have to know more
\nThat we call true
\nOur brainwashed scientists
\nDelve into their minds
\nA vanishing people
\nWho pull down their blinds<\/p>\n
We call them a window out in the past
\nThey live in thatched lean too’s
\nThat leave us aghast
\nWe provide them with cottages
\nThat they don’t need
\nAnd we wonder why they
\nThey As a people succeed<\/p>\n
They do not want handouts
\nThey want what they find
\nThey do not have animals
\nIts under lined
\nThey do not farm as we do
\nAll that they want
\nIs to forage for wild food
\nAnd fish for thats true<\/p>\n
A dugout they make
\nUsing wind using tools
\nWorking with nature
\nWith all of their rules
\nNot ours their rules
\nThey make them they know the score
\nIts macrobiotics cooked yes and raw<\/p>\n
Time is running out for us all
\nEveryone
\nNot least these bold people
\nWho live in the sun
\nWho fight for survival
\nFrom us in a way
\nWe are logging the forests
\nAnd causing dismay<\/p>\n
We waste everything
\nThat was given so we
\nCan make western threats
\nA great tragedy
\nWe cant see the value of trees
\nThat all grow
\nAnd harbour much beauty
\nAnd share the great flow<\/p>\n
The Onge have wisdom
\nGreat wisdom and they
\nUse it to live the full lives
\nEveryday
\nThey don’t want our help
\nWhy would they they know
\nThe diet they use
\nHelps them to grow<\/p>\n
Dugong and fish the odd turtle
\nAppears
\nTubers from the forests
\nCounter our fears
\nThey choose not to wear clothes
\nNothing at all
\nNaturists actually
\nNever on call<\/p>\n
In many ways India
\nPlays the card well
\nThe Andeman Islands
\nBecomes a hard sell
\nAnd the Onge people
\nExists as they do
\nWithout western influence
\nWhich is askew<\/p>\n
Our diseases affect them
\nWe are virulent fools
\nWe don’t live our own lives
\nProtected by rules
\nNot of our making
\nNo heritage there
\nWe are but prisoners
\nTrapped in despair<\/p>\n
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\nPlease leave them alone
\nWe haven’t hurt you
\nThat you haven’t known
\nUs
\nIs a godsend for we are apart
\nWe are real people
\nWe have real heart<\/p>\n
We don’t want to know you
\nwe really don’t care
\nHow white your skin is
\nAnd how blonde your hair
\nWe are the night skins
\nWe are at one
\nWith the sun and the moon
\nAnd the sky all homespun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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