Even in the initial stages of contact between European and Native people the stage was set for ethnocentrism, and the attitude towards the Indians was that of superiority. The Indians were a proclamation in Spanish which they had no hope of understanding, they had no hope of the death sentence they were being read, and it went something like "We ask and require you to acknowledge the as the ruler and of the whole world and the high priest called pope and in his name the king of Spain as lords of this land. If you we shall receive you in all love and charity and shall you, your wives and children and your lands without servitude, but if you do not submit we shall powerfully enter your country and shall make war against you, we shall take you and your and your children and shall make slaves of them and we shall take your goods and shall do you all the and damage we can."
2000 ago we were all tribal. Then came the missionaries with fucking bible. 1492 began the The holocaust of our nations Yeah, Christian love and a moral authority killed our medicine men and stole our country I never claimed this was poetry It's just the fucking lies of You will pray to the lord and get down on your Here's a cross for your back and the disease Though you helped us survive we will while you bleed Then deny what we did, write our own We will your children and cut off their hair Silence their language and outlaw their Beat them until they believe In the blood of Jesus Christ our Christians murdered Columbus murdered and now we have a holiday Still you want to your history to the sky for your god to justify As you commit cultural Christians and the natives they did hang 13 at a for Jesus and his gang We are the you had to dehumanize So your murder and could be justified The belly of the is full With the of all those heathen fools Who would not receive the gift of So we burned them as a To our killing god above To our mother and all her love We steal their gods and subjugate Those who believe we'll ahnilate
"The made bets as to who would slit a man in two or cut of his head with one blow. They babies from their mother's breast by their feet and dashed their head against the rocks. They Indians by thirteen in and reverence for their redeemer and their twelve apostles. put wood underneath and with fire burned the Indians alive."
murdered Indians We in the earth, the sky and dreams The universe and the who gave us these The sacred of life and human beings That makes you perpetrate the hate to So here I am the civilized Voice of the and my ancestor's cries And like the ghosts of land you can't erase I see blood on the of the master race. 500 years of destiny 500 years of to the enemy You faith in the rivers, the mountains, the trees a murdering god to replace all of these With the of forgiveness you too can be free Or the wrath of you're sure to receive We will baptize you with the of the lamb With the sword and the gospel we conquer your land You will our church and be glad to be saved Or we'll slaughter your children and your we'll rape. Christians murdered I see blood on the of the master race.