The Backdrop
Tall Paul
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Born in Indian Territory or Oklahoma, With his twin brother Charlie just south of Bellemont's border In a one room cabin with a wood stove aroma Not too long before the revolt of a young Wovoka Baby Jim was given the name of withashcuk It meant the light after the lighting it's his clan cut Thunder clan just like his daddy and Chief Black Hawk Known as the Bright Path destined to be his fam's rock He's like the year of 1887's gift from heaven to Natives relating to sports and who hold it with a reverence While baby Jim was nursing from his mother Charlotte's breast American Horse was with Buffalo Bill's Wild West The same year the Henry Dawes Act went in effect They claimed it was to help us out and teach us to subsist As if for centuries and centuries we didn't exist It simply symbolized arrival of a different ship And paved the way for greedy settlers to take more shit Just like the Oklahoma land rush of '89 and 91 They ceded lands to thieves and crooks who came equipped with guns These are the type of people who surrounded Hiram's sons So Hiram had to keep a watchful eye to keep 'em from Intruding on his ranch to rob the Thorpe allotment But it was nothing new, except the legal cop in Because a decade before this they were already plotting Such maneuvers were acted out by those known as boomers Who'd lobby to steal our lands and supplant us as intruders When it was legalized you had the people known as Sooners Who literally jumped the gun while snoozers were in their bloomers Any land of ours that they considered surplus, Was wrongfully deemed by them to no longer serve us So they took it like the savages they truly were And entire cities sprung up overnight unlike junipers United snakes inspired revolutions of the day Such as Wovoka's ghost dance a thousand miles away From the Oklahoma ranch where Jim and Charlie played and laid They saw our strength in numbers and became afraid we prayed So they sent thousands of troops to try intimidate Lakota ghost dancers 'til they'd no longer participate And for the next month Pine Ridge was in a state of siege When Sitting Bull was killed by Native cops who disagreed Hundreds of kids and women murdered by the cavalry Them coward travelers massacred them at Wounded Knee Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou's camped out by the creek when Them spineless troops went inside their camp to shoot them in their sleep The same year scholars said colonization was complete When football took a hold of America's imagination In correlation with the modern man's mechanization Welcome to the backdrop of the baby native born the greatest
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