Grass Stopped Growing

[bhinderbinder]

Hi MaryK,

You sound wonderful! Chris and I heard you play at CowHill Express on Thursday night, remember we chatted?! Thanks for posting this song, I like the rhythmic playing, that's a nice interpretation.

[marykmusic]

Thanks! And of course I remember y'all. Glad to have met you and expect to see you both again.

[ArtistIreland]

The grass and lands were for Us to mind. What happend.

[marykmusic]

The Cherokee and the rest of the Five Civilized Tribes were essentially being punished for fighting with the Confederacy. They all lost land to the Allotment System.

[ArtistIreland]

Oh sheet. History again.

[kirkygirl]

Yes, and look how well they worked! *sarcasm*

I actually am Canadian, and the gov. is/has finally taken some steps to correct some of the injustices that these poor people and their families have suffered through.

[kirkygirl]

Very powerful song. Thank you for writing it.

I'm sick of the fact that a lot of First Nations people have to live in sub-standard housing, and I feel sick that they themselves feel powerless.

[marykmusic]

The reservation system was designed specifically to work like this. It's psychological genocide. So are "Projects" in urban areas; they were originally designed as social experiments in Nazi Germany.