music suggestions for history class

lealdragon
Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:05:18 +0000

Oppression of Native Americans/ Native American spirituality:

The Rhythm of the Heat
Looking out the window
I see the red dust clear
High up on the red rock
Stands the shadow with the spear

The land here is strong
Strong beneath my feet
it feeds on the blood
it feeds on the heat

The rhythm is below me
The rhythm of the heat
The rhythm is around me
The rhythm has control
The rhythm is inside me
The rhythm has my soul

The rhythm of the heat
The rhythm of the heat
The rhythm of the heat
The rhythm of the heat

Drawn across the plainland
To the place that is higher
Drawn into the circle
That dances round the fire
We spit into out hands
And breathe across the palms
Raising them up high
Help open to the sun

Self-conscious, uncertain
I’m showered with the dust
The spirit enter into me
And I submit to trust

Smash the radio
No outside voices here
Smash the watch
Cannot tear the day to shreds
Smash the camera
Cannot steal away the spirits
The rhythm is around me
The rhythm has control
The rhythm is inside me
The rhythm has my soul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J0yppewrvg

San Jacinto
Thick cloud - steam rising - hissing stone on sweat lodge fire
Around me - buffalo robe - sage in bundle - run on skin
Outside - cold air - stand, wait for rising sun
Red paint - eagle feathers - coyote calling - it has begun
Something moving in - I taste it in my mouth and in my heart
It feels like dying - slow - letting go of life
Medicine man lead me up though town - Indian ground - so far down
Cut up land - each house - a pool - kids wearing water wings

drink in cool
Follow dry river bed - watch Scout and Guides make pow-wow signs
Past Geronimo’s disco - Sit ‘n’ Bull steakhouse - white men dream
A rattle in the old man’s sack - look at mountain top - keep
climbing up
Way above us the desert snow - white wind blow

I hold the line - the line of strength that pulls me through the
fear
San Jacinto - I hold the line
San Jacinto - the poison bite and darkness take my sight - I hold
the line
And the tears roll down my swollen cheek - think I’m losing it -
getting weaker
I hold the line - I hold the line
San Jacinto - tellow eagle flies down from the sun - from the sun

We will walk - on the land
We will breathe - of the air
We will drink - from the stream
We will live - hold the line