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How long have | known you, O Canada? A hundred years?
Yes, a hundred years. And many, many years mors. wat

And today, when you celebrate your hundred years, Canada,
1 am sad for ail the Indian people throughout tne land. For? have known you
when your forests were mine; when they gave me my meat and miy' :
have known you and the freedom of your winds. And my spirit, ke the winds,
once roamed your good! lands.

But in the long hundred years since the white man came,’ .
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pressed down upon me unti | could no longer breathe:

When I foughtt to protect my land and my home; | was calad a j
When | neither understood nor welcomed this way of life; | was called
When | tied to n#e my people | was stripped of my authonly

surroundings. Lei me once again, asin the daye of old (
_Letme humbly accept this new culture and througfi

O God! Like the thunderbird of old I shall
1 shall grab the instrumenis of the white man's
With these new tools | shall build my race into the proudest segmer of

. Before | follow the great Chiels who hai gone
O Canada, | shall see these things cc
_ young braves and our Chiefs sitting in the
“Tuling and being ruled by the knowledge and freedoms of Ou,

_ So shal we shat the bans

: Sd shall the next hundred yeas
_ be ihe greatest in the proud history