Even in the initial stages of contact between European and Native Indian the stage was set for ethnocentrism, and the attitude towards the was that of Christian superiority. The Indians were read a proclamation in Spanish which they had no of understanding, they had no hope of understanding the death sentence were read, and it went something like this: "We ask and require you to acknowledge the church as the and superior of the whole world and the priest called pope and in his name the king of Spain as of this land. If you submit we shall receive you in all and charity and shall leave you, your wives and children and lands free without servitude, but if you do not submit we powerfully enter into your country and shall make war against you, we shall take you and your wives and your children and make slaves of them and we shall take away goods and shall do you all the and damage we can."
years ago we were all tribal. Then the missionaries with their fucking bible. began the termination The of our Indian nations Yeah, with love and a moral authority They killed our medicine men and stole our I claimed this shit was poetry It's just the fucking lies of You pray to the lord and get down on your knees Here's a cross for back and the coughing disease Though you helped us survive we will laugh while you deny what we did, write our own history We will kidnap your children and cut off hair Silence their language and their prayers Beat them blind until they In the blood of Jesus our king Christians murdered Columbus murdered and now we have a holiday Still you want to deny your Look to the sky for god to justify As you commit cultural Christians came and the they did hang 13 at a time for Jesus and his We are the you had to dehumanize So your murder and greed be justified The of the church is full With the of all those heathen fools Who would not receive the of Christ? So we burned as a sacrifice To our baby killing god To our mother church and all her We will steal gods and subjugate Those who don't we'll ahnilate
"The Spaniards made bets as to who slit a man in two or cut of his head one blow. They tore babies from their mother's breast by their feet and dashed their head against the rocks. They Indians by thirteen in honor and for their redeemer and their twelve apostles. They put wood and with fire burned the Indians alive."
Christians Indians We believe in the earth, the sky and The and the creator who gave us these The sacred gift of and human beings That makes you perpetrate the to ahnilate So I am the savage civilized Voice of the dead and my ancestor's And like the ghosts of land you can't erase I see on the hands of the master race. 500 years of destiny 500 years of resistance to the You have in the rivers, the mountains, the trees We've a god to replace all of these the blood 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 will your land You will join our and be glad to be saved Or we'll slaughter your children and women we'll rape. Christians Indians I see on the hands of the master race.