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Dismantling Racism Resource Book

I Walk in the History of My People

In the scars of my knees you can see

children torn from their families
bludgeoned into government schools
You can see through the pins in my bones
that we are prisoners of a long war
My knee is so badly wounded no one will look at it
The pus of the past oozes from every pore
This infection has gone on for at least 300 years
Our sacred beliefs have been made into pencils
names of cities gas stations
My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly
Anger is my crutch I hold myself upright with it
My knee is wounded
See

How I Am Still Walking

-- Chrystos

Chrystos is a self-educated writer as well as an artist who designs the covers of her own
books. Her work as a Native land, treaty rights and lesbian activist has been widely
recognized and the political aspect is an essential part of her writing.

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