Native Child

Native child, you'll be found
Native children in the ground
Shipped off to the Carlisle School
Subjected to some Christian rule
Native mothers they still weep
Return their children to their keep
Native children, you'll be found
Native children, sacred all around you

Indigenous movements carry on
Rise up like the golden sun
Your people thrive where earth meets sky
Native child, someday you'll know why

Native children born to run
To sing and dance to sacred drums
Native people they believed
They wept in the face of every broken treaty

Native people, how they grieve
Over all that passed and had to be
Sing in the rhythm of your native tongues
Native people, know your time has come
Native child born to be stripped of every dignity
Now your spirit runs wild and free
Through sacred hills and golden prairies

Stand tall in the light of the golden sun
The proudest people since earth begun
Ancient remedies ancient rules
Stolen by them greedy fools
Bring what was taken back around
Native people rise up now
Native people rise up now
Native people rise up all around