So, we are who we are, as the Mississippi flows,
and what remains from yesterday is still ours-
but the color of the sky has changed,
the sea to the East has changed.
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Beautiful, tragic, understanding across generations and times. Why could not European settler-mind comprehend the wisdom of Native people's ways?