Tag Archives: Native Community

Balance of Power

Posted on February 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Balance of Powerby Michael DoyleYour people came to my peopleWith all of their demandsBefore we knew what coexistence meantWe had lost all our sacred landsWe were offered the peaceThat can only be called brutalityAs we were savagely rounded upBy your … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrival, Balance of Power, Bline, Brutality, Children of Legacy, Coexistence, Conquest, Dead, Dignity, Dimension, Dramedy, Family, Fight For Survival, Frederick Turner Jackson, Future, Glory, Great Spirit, History, Manifest Destiny, Message, My People, Native Amerca, Native Community, Necks, Oral Story, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Purposeful Action, Recovery, Relevant, Revitalization, Rounded Up, Sacred Lands, Shape, Sovereignty, Starve and Bleed, Steeple, Story, Teach and Read, Test, Tradition, Trauma, Wampum Belts, Wilderness, Winter, Your People | Leave a comment

This Is Not True Victory

Posted on December 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

This Is Not True Victoryby Michael DoyleIn memory of Queen Lili‘uokalani I declare this is not a true victoryWhen back in the year of 1893The United States overthrew her monarchyDespite the wrongness of things doneShe did not choose the white … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1893, A People and A Nation, Apology, Authority, Battle, Cleansing Way, Constitutional Sovereignty, Dennis Kanahele, Dignity, Federal Recognition, Free Hawai'i, Freedom, Guns, Homes, Hope, Hour, Islands, Kanaka Maoli, Legislation, Live, Manifest Destiny, Milatancy, Monarchy, Native Community, Notion, Overthrow, Person's Station, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Power, President McKinley, Queen Lili‘uokalani, Rerservation, Self-Determinatoin, Sins of Man, Survive, The People, Tourist Destination, Tribe, True Heart, True Victory, United States, Voices, Voices of God, Wrongness | Leave a comment

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