{"id":49,"date":"2011-11-13T18:39:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T18:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2011-11-14T15:48:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T15:48:23","slug":"the-first-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/the-first-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The First People"},"content":{"rendered":"
They were first people, and still are in my bookTheir spirit was evident, as was their power<\/p>\n

They lived close to Nature, farming sustainably<\/p>\n

Sensitive people, hour upon hour<\/p>\n

Their spirituality, its was spectacular<\/p>\n

Worship was evident, as was their soul<\/p>\n

Warriors, men with an awesome composure<\/p>\n

They could exact the shrewdest control.<\/p>\n

They took their fight, to the men with the rifles<\/p>\n

With their bows and their arrows they took on the horse<\/p>\n

Some rode like crazy without any saddle<\/p>\n

Each nuance was learned, and practiced of course<\/p>\n

The women were marvellous,their strength was important<\/p>\n

Flexible,practical,sensitive too, a tremendous resilience<\/p>\n

Diverse and creative,there was not much the women couldn’t do<\/p>\n

I’m enthralled by the prowess, what women could undertake<\/p>\n

Intelligent, thoughtfull progressive all through<\/p>\n

what was attempted was always done well<\/p>\n

They made use of leather, ceramics and shell<\/p>\n

Of bone, Horticulture and wild plants for sure<\/p>\n

Herbology, wigwam construction and more<\/p>\n

They looked after the children and grew all the food<\/p>\n

Corn, Pumpkins, Peppers then roasted and stewed<\/p>\n

Clearing the forests a back breaking job<\/p>\n

Felling some trees the old men would sob<\/p>\n

At the pain in their backs, and the soreness they found<\/p>\n

But these women were tough when preparing the ground<\/p>\n

Hoeing and girdling, made the hands sore<\/p>\n

But success was their vision pain they’d ignore<\/p>\n

Hollywood processed us the Children in England<\/p>\n

Propaganda was rolled out, and hungry were we<\/p>\n

We gobbled it down How the wild west was won<\/p>\n

How the savage was beaten so successfully<\/p>\n

The Baddies were run off their land and were slaughtered<\/p>\n

The white man his soldiers all dressed up in blue<\/p>\n

Rifles and Horses were terrible forces<\/p>\n

But The indigenous people were strategists too<\/p>\n

The lie of the land it was inside their being<\/p>\n

Waste never stood in the way of desire<\/p>\n

They understood so much of life in the open<\/p>\n

Chopping and carrying kindling, for fire<\/p>\n

They could skin, they could weave,<\/p>\n

making clothes for the children<\/p>\n

Medicines, utensils, they made them all<\/p>\n

And they had children with no one to call<\/p>\n

Working right up to a few days before<\/p>\n

Harvesting life from seeds they did store<\/p>\n

Community based and a culture of sharing<\/p>\n

Built up over centuries, ritual and dance<\/p>\n

Thanksgiving Rainmaking, Weather Lore people<\/p>\n

Protection and storage were not left to chance<\/p>\n

Methods of fire making, gathering wood<\/p>\n

Food preparation, the baskets that could<\/p>\n

Be used for so much of the time that was spent<\/p>\n

Hulling and washing and sifting, content<\/p>\n

Messages out to the wide yonder where<\/p>\n

The old and the young helped women prepare<\/p>\n

recipes, fetching the berries and fruit<\/p>\n

Drying the corn and grinding the root<\/p>\n

Honey was gathered, Maple was boiled<\/p>\n

Insects collected oh how they toiled<\/p>\n

Through the night sometimes cooking a big pot of stew<\/p>\n

Supporting the hunters and warriors who<\/p>\n

Would need to go out before the crack of Dawn<\/p>\n

There is just so much work in processing corn<\/p>\n

But the women were up to it ,knowledge of old<\/p>\n

Ancestral stories that have always been told<\/p>\n

Corn medicines, types it’s a complex affair<\/p>\n

But the women knew everything and they did share<\/p>\n

Some of it comes out in Biodynamics<\/p>\n

And Permaculture has picked up on it<\/p>\n

These the first people incredibly practical<\/p>\n

Perceptive and no matter what, didn’t quit<\/p>\n

To this day the first people are struck by the evil<\/p>\n

Technology and the advances of time<\/p>\n

Indian Land is oft far from the cities<\/p>\n

Having home rule though does not<\/p>\n

prevent crime<\/p>\n

Mass unemployment and boredom<\/p>\n

run riot, frustration collects in the pockets<\/p>\n

of those<\/p>\n

Warrior spawn never made a good farmer<\/p>\n

And so in effect they are now in the throes<\/p>\n

Of purposeful thought as another invasion<\/p>\n

Takes place on their land its the Corporate Man<\/p>\n

Development that is the new kid that’s coming<\/p>\n

An invasion of thought that still doesn’t scan<\/p>\n

They offer employment resentment though follows<\/p>\n

The snarl of the Corporate fashions a deal<\/p>\n

Sadly the vulnerable don’t get the message<\/p>\n

And they lose out big time and that is for real<\/p>\n

So then freshnew conquests are evident this time<\/p>\n

Technology, and with it employment of sorts<\/p>\n

But so much is kept from them, its an invasion<\/p>\n

By people with anything but true sound thoughts<\/p>\n

On their land free of Covenants, Laws and the Public<\/p>\n

Incineration and land fill is made<\/p>\n

Corruption is commonplace, people are hoodwinked<\/p>\n

Its with trust and health that the first people Trade<\/p>\n

Nuclear waste is buried on their land<\/p>\n

Pollution, Disease the vomit of those<\/p>\n

Who live far away in their great concrete cities<\/p>\n

As contractors roll in with trucks I suppose<\/p>\n

Unlicensed they dump all and sundry upon them<\/p>\n

As ill health and well the pollution risk grows<\/p>\n

So many tribes have lost out to the wwhite man<\/p>\n

It really was not what the First people chose<\/p>\n

Enforcement was minimal of sacred land<\/p>\n

A people whose ancestral logic had planned<\/p>\n

A much safer place for their children to grow<\/p>\n

Than a sick dumping ground where the rats and the crow<\/p>\n

Came in their hordes bringing evil to rain<\/p>\n

Down on their precious land space again<\/p>\n

Water and air, is a risk to their health<\/p>\n

The Corporate monster has slipped in by stealth<\/p>\n

Waving their dollar bills that’s what they do<\/p>\n

Bring their poisons polluting the first people too<\/p>\n

All over the world the indigenous mind<\/p>\n

Is faced by what is now a terrble bind<\/p>\n

loss of their land to the monsters who come<\/p>\n

With their bloody bulldozers and they do have some<\/p>\n

Big Oil, Pesticides,The logging, Oil Palm<\/p>\n

Uranium mining and Bauxite all harm<\/p>\n

it is doing to land and the first people too<\/p>\n

They are losing their way and don’t know what to do<\/p>\n

Up against evil and money per se<\/p>\n

Means with out outside help<\/p>\n

they are doomed. just to pay<\/p>\n

With their health, with their freedom<\/p>\n

With their most precious Land<\/p>\n

We must, see their value<\/p>\n

Help them, understand<\/p>\n

They were the first People<\/p>\n

We all better learn<\/p>\n

If they are sacrificed<\/p>\n

We will all burn
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