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| OH GREAT SPIRIT ! CREATOR OF ALL THAT IS KNOWN, FATHER OF THE MOTHER EARTH... WE HAVE WALKED SO MANY PATHS...CROSSED SO MANY OPEN PRAIRIES THAT WERE ONCE GREEN AS FAR AS THE EYES COULD SEE... FULL OF THE GREAT BUFFALOS.. GRAZING ...ABUNDANT LIKE THE FISH IN THE SEA... WE ONCE WERE MANY, GREAT NATIONS THAT ROAMED FREE...OUR LODGES WERE MANY... OUR CHILDREN WERE HAPPY...OUR FOOD WAS PLENTIFUL...WE HUNTED FOR ONLY WHAT WE NEEDED AND NOTHING WAS LEFT TO WASTE... WE ARE PROUD OF WHO WE ARE...NATIONS OF BROTHERS, UNITED THIS DAY AS ONE... OUR HISTORY IS A PROUD ONE, YET FULL OF SO MUCH SADNESS...REMOVED FROM OUR LODGES..MOVED FAR AWAY...WE LEFT BEHIND, NOT BECAUSE OF CHOICE, THE BURIAL GROUNDS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE US, OF GREAT WARRIORS AND CHIEFS...OUR BROTHERS...OUR SISTERS...OUR MOTHERS....OUR FATHERS...OUR CHILDREN...MANY ARE THE SACRED BURIAL SITES THAT CAN BE FOUND ALONG THOSE HARD TRAILS THAT WE WERE FORCED TO WALK... SO OH GREAT SPIRIT, CREATOR OF ALL...WE CALL UNTO YOU ...FOR YOUR DIVINE INTERVENTION ... THAT OUR SACRED SITES BE TOUCHED BY NO ONE...FOR THE SPIRITS OF OUR DEAD CANNOT NOT WALK LOST THROUGH OUT ALL ETERNITY... SO WE SEEK YOUR INTERVENTION...LEAST THEY TAKE ALSO FROM US..THAT WHICH IS MOST SACRED,,,OUR BURIAL SITES |
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