Even in the initial stages of contact between Christians and Native people the stage was set for ethnocentrism, and the towards the Indians was that of Christian superiority. The Indians were a proclamation in Spanish which they had no hope of understanding, they had no hope of understanding the sentence they being read, and it went something like this: "We ask and require you to the church as the ruler and superior of the whole and the high priest called pope and in his name the king of Spain as lords of land. If you submit we shall you in all love and charity and shall leave you, your wives and children and your lands free servitude, but if you do not submit we powerfully enter into your country and shall make war against you, we shall you and your wives and your children and shall make slaves of them and we shall take away your goods and do you all the and damage we can."
2000 ago we were all tribal. Then the missionaries with their fucking bible. 1492 the termination The holocaust of our Indian Yeah, Christian love and a moral authority They killed our medicine men and our country I never claimed this shit was It's just the fucking of Christianity You will pray to the lord and get down on knees Here's a cross for back and the coughing disease Though you helped us we will laugh while you bleed Then what we did, write our own history We will your children and cut off their hair Silence their and outlaw their prayers Beat them blind until believe In the blood of Jesus Christ our murdered Indians Columbus children and now we have a holiday Still you want to your history to the sky for your god to justify As you commit genocide Christians and the natives they did hang 13 at a time for Jesus and his We are the you had to dehumanize So murder and greed could be justified The belly of the church is the blood of all those heathen fools Who would not receive the gift of So we burned them as a To our baby killing god To our mother church and all her We will their gods and subjugate Those who believe we'll ahnilate
"The Spaniards made as to who would slit a man in two or cut of his with one blow. They tore babies from their mother's breast by their and dashed their head against the rocks. They hanged Indians by thirteen in honor and reverence for their redeemer and their apostles. They put wood underneath and with burned the Indians alive."
murdered Indians We in the earth, the sky and dreams The universe and the creator who us these The sacred of life and human beings That you perpetrate the hate to ahnilate So I am the savage civilized Voice of the dead and my ancestor's And like the ghosts of this land you erase I see blood on the hands of the race. 500 years of destiny 500 years of to the enemy You have in the rivers, the mountains, the trees We've a murdering god to all of these the blood of forgiveness you too can be free Or the wrath of Jehovah sure to receive We will baptize you with the blood of the With the sword and the gospel we will conquer your You will our church and be glad to be saved Or we'll your children and your women we'll rape. murdered Indians I see blood on the hands of the race.