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How long have I known you , Oh Canada ? A hundred years ?
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yes , a hundred years . And many , many seelanum more . And today , when
you celebrate your hundred years , Oh Canada ,
you celebrate your hundred years , Oh Canada ,
I am sad for all the Indian people throughout the land .
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For I have known you when your forests were mine ; when they gave me
my meat and my clothing . I have known you in your streams and rivers
where your fish flashed and danced in the sun , where the waters said 'come
come and eat of my abundance .' I have known you in the freedom
come and eat of my abundance .' I have known you in the freedom of the wind
And my spirit , like the winds , once roamed your good lands .
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But in the long hundred years since the white man came , I have seen my
freedom disappear like the salmon going mysteriously out to sea .
The white man's strange customs , which I could not understand , pressed
upon me until I could no longer breathe .
When I fought to protect my land and my home, I was called a savage.
When I neither understood nor welcomed his way of life, I was called lazy.
When I tried to rule my people, I was stripped of my authority.
My nation was ignored in your history textbooks - they were little more
important in the history of Canada than the buffalo that ranged the plains.
I was ridiculed in your plays and motion pictures , and when I drank your
fire-water , I got drunk - very, very drunk. And I forgot .
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Oh Canada, how can I celebrate with you this Centenary, this hundred years?
Shall I thank you for the reserves that are left to me of my beautiful
forests ? For the canned fish of my rivers ? For the loss of my pride
and authority , even among my own people? For the lack of my will
to fight back ? No ! I must forget what's past and gone .
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Oh God in heaven! Give me back the courage of the olden chiefs.
Let me wrestle with my surroundings . Let me again ,
as in the days of old , dominate my environment . Let me humbly
accept this new culture and through it rise up and go on .
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Oh God ! Like the thunderbird of old I shall rise again out of the sea ;
I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success-his education ,
his skills- and with these new tools I shall build my race
into the proudest segment of your society .
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Before I follow the great chiefs who have gone before us, Oh Canada,
I shall see these things come to pass. I shall see our young
braves and our chiefs sitting in the houses of law and government ,
ruling and being ruled by the knowledge and freedoms of our great land.
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So shall we shatter the barriers of our isolation .
So shall the next hundred years be the greatest in
the proud history of our tribes and nations .
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The above speech was delivered by Chief Dan George
at the Canadian Centennial Celebration in 1967
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Indian Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the strength of eagles wings,
the faith and courage to fly to new heights,
and the wisdom to rely on his spirit to carry me there.
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I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait,
and in his word do I hope.
Psalm 130 : 5
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