65 My Monologues : World's Indigenous People Day

65 My Monologues : World's Indigenous People

"I am one of those fortunate children of the

'Indigenous People'

as you call us.

My parents keep telling me that I am very lucky to have survived the massacre of our tribe by 'the Plundering Outsiders'.

They come every now and then to plunder and pillage our people....

My people have harrowing tales to tell..

It keeps repeating ..

They have and they take away our land, the land of our ancestors. .the land which is everything to us..

Our is our identity. .

Our land has been the source and sustenance of our lives..

Often we are forcefully  displaced, uprooted.

Our people have forcefully been taken ..

Sold as slaves..

Our forests have cleared to make way for your development. .

We have fought you..

trying to resist..

But you were always much better armed and we'll equipped.

We lost..

We lost many a lives..

Sure, there is lots of resentment and hate..

But lately sanity seems to show up..

A good number of your own people seem to realize the ageold injustice and exploitation, oppression and slavery must stop...

Thank you !!!!

How I wish we could live as friends!

You are always welcome, but do respect our way of life.

Sure, you have done some good for us..

by way education and health care. .

But the collateral damage as coin it,

is huge and inhuman.

Hope it will eventually stop!

I keep praying:

to our Ancestral Gods,

to our Mother Earth,

to our Mother Nature,

for the arrival of the days of Peace and Harmony

between our people.

Thank you,  

for dedicating  9th August as

the day for the awareness for the cause of:

World's Indigenous People!"

A Nameless Indigenous Child.

JoAchen

Joachenmonologues@gmail.com

www.my-monologoues.blogspot.com