music suggestions for history class

Parent Cafe
61

<p>Oppression of Native Americans/ Native American spirituality:</p>

<p>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</p>

<p>The land here is strong
Strong beneath my feet
it feeds on the blood
it feeds on the heat</p>

<p>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</p>

<p>The rhythm of the heat
The rhythm of the heat
The rhythm of the heat
The rhythm of the heat</p>

<p>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</p>

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

<p>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</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J0yppewrvg[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J0yppewrvg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>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</p>

<p>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</p>

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

62

<p>Shawn Phillips - I Took a Walk (Listen to this - stunning!)</p>

<p><a href=“http://play.rhapsody.com/shawnphillips/bestofshawnphillipstheamyears/itookawalk?didAutoplayBounce=true[/url]”>http://play.rhapsody.com/shawnphillips/bestofshawnphillipstheamyears/itookawalk?didAutoplayBounce=true&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I Took A Walk</p>

<p>I took a walk through the fields of America
I’ll tell you what I saw in the middle of the garbage and erotica
I saw a man in pain crying to be free
Children in the rain, yelling out their glee
Well, singers on the plain, fused in harmony</p>

<p>Hey, Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee</p>

<p>People I have seen in the streets and communities
Running in a mortal fear of the violence and its companies
I saw a man in hand flying to the moon
Well, a rich man of the lands dying all too soon
I say people in the bands you really ought to learn this tune</p>

<p>Hey, Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee</p>

<p>I took a walk through the fields of America
I’ll tell you what I saw, I saw a murder in a place called Attica
I saw a man called power who said you’ve got to fit my vision
I saw a man called law said if you don’t I’m going to put you in the prison
I saw a man called peace who was shaking with the laughter of derision</p>

<p>Hey, Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they’re gonna to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they’re gonna to love you, please be true to thee</p>

<p>I took a walk through the fields of America
I’ll tell you what I saw
I saw the blizzards and the tropics
I saw mountain streams running free and clear, Lord
Creatures of my dreams so beautiful I shed my tears
You great and wondrous land
I wonder why you cannot hear me now</p>

<p>Hey, Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America, they want to love you, please be true to thee
Oh America</p>

<p>America, America, America, America, America
America, America, America, America, America
America, America, America, America, America</p>

<p>You can listen to Shawn’s music here:</p>

<p><a href=“Erreur | ÉTS Montréal”>Erreur | ÉTS Montréal;

<p>There are lots of other songs that might be appropriate, too.</p>

63

<p>Also, oppression of the Native Americans</p>

<p>Land of the Navajo by Old and In the Way
Buffalo Soldiers Bob Marley (sort of a double whammy)</p>

64

<p>Native American oppression:</p>

<p>Judas Priest SAVAGE</p>

<p>Who gives you the right to come here and tell me
I have to leave this place my home
To you it’s a jungle, to me it’s a kingdom
Where people are free there to roam
Born with the stars we are happy and peaceful
'Til now we were left undisturbed
But you rupture the forests our gardens
And fill them with filth from your cities unheard</p>

<p>Savage, who is savage
Leave your morals, stake your claim
Savage, you are savage
Modern man can take the blame</p>

<p>You poisoned my tribe with civilised progress
Baptising our blood with disease
You christened our bodies with sadness and suffering
Saying then that your god is well-pleased
What have we done to deserve such injustice
Explain to us please if you can
But you can’t, no you can’t, we can see it in your eyes
[ these lyrics found on <a href=“http://www.completealbumlyrics.com%5B/url%5D”>http://www.completealbumlyrics.com</a> ]</p>

<p>Of us both who’s the primitive man</p>

<p>Savage, who is savage
Leave your morals, stake your claim
Savage, you are savage
Modern man can take the blame</p>

<p>You poisoned my tribe with civilised progress
Baptising our blood with disease
You christened our bodies with sadness and suffering
Saying then that your god is well-pleased
What have we done to deserve such injustice
Explain to us please if you can
But you can’t, no you can’t, we can see it in your eyes
Of us both who’s the primitive man</p>

<p>Savage, savage
Savage, savage
Who’s the savage
Modern man
Who’s the savage
Modern man</p>

<hr>

<p>Iron Maiden - Run to the hills</p>

<p>(harris)</p>

<p>White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need</p>

<p>We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for cree
Oh will we ever be set free?</p>

<p>Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom a stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack</p>

<p>Run to the hills run for your lives
Run to the hills run for your lives</p>

<p>Soldier blue on the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good indians are tame
Selling them whisky and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old</p>

<p>Run to the hills run for your lives
(repeat to end)</p>

65

<p>all of my kids have had either individual or group assignment finding music to match reading assignments or history projects.
It could be fun to have the kids bring in songs they feel reflect the issues as well.</p>