we bred and we stole and
we bred and we stole.
For centuries.
Destroying the land and the people already there
I don’t understand why we are so proud of this?

Being more fecund
Greedy
Willing to hurt
Kill
Coddling ourselves
From our impact on the world?

What stories we tell ourselves
Famous Indian killer!
Noble soldier
Heart of the land… Farmers
Founder of the KKK, “but really not a bad guy”
(words of a white woman I do not know)

Let us

Examine our stories, our family stories,

our stories that we call History