Voices of Our Ancestors

 

Voices of Our Ancestors

 

Listen

In evening

Listen

When wind is low

Listen

When river is quiet

Listen

 

Hear

Movement on trails

Padding feet

Building, Fishing, Planting, Tilling

Voice

Trading, Calling, Singing, Talking

 

Passing feet of hurried messenger

Sent from Cherokee Nation

To Five Nations Council

Hear beaching canoes

Wind sighing

 

Hear

Rumble of wheels

Chopping of trees and brush

Heavy powerful plodding

Oxen hooves

In dust and mud

 

Hear

Plough parts soil

Corn rolling flowing falling pouring

In sacks

Planted, growing, cut, harvested

Hear

Hammer on nails

Hear

Horses at mill

Mules, turning, twisting, straining

Great millstone grinding, grinding, grounding

Corn

To fine powder

Shipped away

Moved away

On to Detroit, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore

Richmond, Raleigh, New York

Hear

Steel wheels on rails

Running

North, South

East, West

 

Hear

Voices

New arrivals

Two Trails now Two Rails

 

Hear

Electricity in wires

Racing

Machines bracing, squealing, pounding

 

Hear

Sound

Building, Rebuilding, Invention

Adventure

 

Hear

On light wind

Sound

Of voices

Of

Our Ancestors

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