The uneducated trying to educate the educated
Try to tell me native ways better off desecrated
“Respect for you native people but you should be incarcerated.”
“You were supposed to die if you were not assimilated.”
But here we are standing stronger than we were before
Teaching our children what the schools sought to ignore
Teaching them to raise their fist, instead of cutting up their wrists
Wrap their hands around a mic instead of turning to the pipe
Wear that feather proud when you graduatin’
Take that stage with pride with your beads hangin’
Cause if every other child can wear their crucified Jesus Christ
My son gonna represent his native pride cause in his eyes
Is the proof that we survived genocide and if ya
wanna look a native father in the eyes
Take your pride and come on…come and tell me otherwise

It’s been your country over 200 years
It’s been our land since the dawn of time
It’s been your country over 200 years
It’s been our land since the dawn of time
Look what you’ve built in over 200 years
Built your great country on genocide
Look what you’ve built in over 200 years
Still build your country on genocide

The uneducated trying to educate the educated
Try to tell me native ways better off desecrated
“Respect for you native people, look at my headdress!”
“I learned about you people on an old wild west.”
People wanna tell me to stop looking to the past
They don’t understand that what I’m watching is the newscast
People you gotta stop burning stars and stripes
All you doin’ is pollutin’ the air we fight for day and night
Just do what I do, don’t acknowledge just forsake it
I cover my heart to muffle the sound of it breakin’/ Got
Natives on my back tellin’ me to live for today
Tellin’ me to go to church cause Jesus is the only way
They say there’s two paths that lead to the same light so tell me
Why we committin’ cultural suicide, tell me
Why we committin’ spiritual suicide.
Tell me why

It’s been your country over 200 years
It’s been our land since the dawn of time
It’s been your country over 200 years
It’s been our land since the dawn of time
Look what you’ve built in over 200 years
Built your great country on genocide
Look what you’ve built in over 200 years
Still build your country on genocide

In the spirit of our ancestors
It's time to rise up
and unite.