Lyrics

can you see Columbus and the Pinta and Santa Maria
we say he found America but the Indians disagree
pain and death his legacy 500 years ago
but if you want to celebrate just dream of the buffalo
if you live in Pine Ridge, Alaska or James Bay
murder on the reservation happens almost every day
they say it's drunken Indians with nothin' left to lose
but this deliberate genocide from the governments never makes the news
look out change is gonna come look out justice will be done
can you see Big Mountain looming through the haze
coal and uranium Indian miners in a daze
slaving for the companies with cancer on the rise
Wall Street's getting richer while those workers drop like flies
look out change is gonna come
look out justice will be done
Native corporations they tear apart the land
sell shares in Mother Nature do the elders understand?
they sell their tribes an empty dream 'cause money is their lord
pocketing the profits while they hang around the fort
look out change is gonna come
look out justice will be done
now the Gwich'in Caribou People's backs are against the wall
because the oil companies they wanna take it all
from America's last wilderness and the home of the caribou
and if they start their drilling then the Gwich'in's days are through
look out change is gonna come
look out justice will be done
have you seen the Lummi Nation or the rest of Puget Sound?
have you considered that we live on Indian ground?
but there's a trail of broken treaties from shore to shore
we're not just talkin' history we're still declaring war
look out change is gonna come
look out justice will be done...
(Thanks to Jim Lindquist, John Neighbor, Dean Evenson and Cha-Da-Ska-Dum Witchtalem (RIP my friend) Happy Columbus Day!)