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chosen by my people - dana lyons lyrics

i am 25 years old
and i’ve walked a thousand miles
through the tundra where we hunt the caribou
i have seen the antlers fall
i have smelled the steaming blood
through the artic snow, we carry home the food
first my grandmother is fed
and the elder with no child
then jamey whose disabled and the best
meat goes to feed the old
and to feed the very young
and to take care of their mothers and what’s left
i take home to my cache
i tan the hide and prep
and give thanks to the creator

and i speak my heart, how we love our land
and i pray that i can make them understand

i am 25 years old
and i feel so very young
to be chosen by my people to be chief
but i’ll take the time and go
and i’ll listen very well
to those older and much wiser
and they’ll tell me the stories of this land
and the history of our race
and i feel my anger rising
then his hand holds tightly to my arm
my grandfather and me
and reminds me to think clearly
and i speak my heart, how we love our land
and i pray that i can make them understand
our way of life, for ten thousand years
how my ancestors have always hunted here

i am 25 years old
and i’ve flown a million miles
to tell the world my people here will die
if the oil drilling comes
if the caribou are gone
with no place to birth their babies
and my son is only four years old
it’s hard to go away
’cause i love to watch him growing every day
i see the future in his eyes
and i can feel the elders’ pride
that we are fighting to preserve the gwich’in way
i am 25 years old
and sometimes i am afraid
but i know we stand together

and i speak my heart, how we love our land
and i pray that i can make them understand
our way of life, for ten thousand years
how my ancestors have always hunted here

- dana lyons lyrics

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