Analysis of THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE
Larry Lowry 1959 (Pryor)
THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE-we are Americans but we are treated like we're foreigners. Blacks whites and Chinese came and took this country. From us native Americans we owned the land. Then the American congress whites said we are not people but things that had no right to own land. Then the trail of tears where elderly women babies were forced under guns to travel in the snow. First to go is the weak and unfirm. The elderly and the babies that are cold and hungry are next. those who cannot speak. OUR only crime we are Indians and you wanted our land. WE are the forgotten. we won't go into the night quietly.we are angry and We won't be FORGOTTEN People.
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Metre | 001010110100111101110011001101110111001001101100100101111110111111111101111100101001101110001111101010100001011101011111011010111100011010111001011101011110011101010 |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 1 |
Lines Amount | 1 |
Letters per line (avg) | 519 |
Words per line (avg) | 120 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 519 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
About this poem
American Indians are native people of this country. We have been here always.
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Written on March 01, 2022
Submitted by Lowlarr on January 29, 2022
Modified on May 02, 2023
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