{"id":15983,"date":"2010-03-25T14:27:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T13:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=15983"},"modified":"2010-06-29T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T08:08:57","slug":"the-last-of-my-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2010\/03\/the-last-of-my-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The last of my people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am the last of my people, no one left to talk to. Yesterday my wife was still by my side. Together, our early years we were calling to mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My dearly beloved has just passed away. We never had a child, we never dared. The world \u2013 our world \u2013 has changed in so many ways.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I remember my father coming home one night, shattered as he\u2019d seen a White man. That was a thousand moons ago. The sky above isn\u2019t really the same since then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We used to dwell as tenants of the Earth, as the Elders say. But along came others who said \u201cnow this place is ours.\u201d What was there for us to answer? We had a million words for the million plants, birds, fishes, mammals. We had none for \u201cproperty\u201d and \u201cowner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am the last of my people. All that my father taught me will disappear with me, all that my father held after his own grandfather.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I cannot write. My language is beautiful and complex, yet it is to be sung in the wind and drawn in the sand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And tomorrow, when I\u2019ve disappeared too, there\u2019ll be something missing all of you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>F\u00e9licie Dubois<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Traduit du fran\u00e7ais par Gwilym Tonnerre<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the last of my people, no one left to talk to. Yesterday my wife was still by my side. Together, our early years we were calling to mind. My dearly beloved has just passed away. We never had a child, we never dared. 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