The First Americans Poem by Francis Duggan

They are the first Americans the fact with us remain
Yet from foreign invasion they did not stand to gain
None of them has become U S President strange as that may seem to be
But to be the first Americans is their proud history
The colonization of any Country to some a historic thing
But of the colonization of any Country the praises should we sing
Humiliated and condemned to reservations by colonial regime command
The cruelness of colonizers seem hard to understand
What has happened to the First Americans has happened to Indigenous people everywhere
At the hands of the oppressive colonizers of the bigger World out there
Their land was taken from them the bison they lived on all but wiped out
On the worthiness on history built on colonization one has to cast some doubt
One of them has never become President of their Country the U S A
But for being the first Americans respect to them we ought to pay.