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