The Backdrop

Born in Indian Territory or Oklahoma,
With his twin brother Charlie just south of Bellemont's border
In a one room cabin with a wood stove aroma
Not too long before the revolt of a young Wovoka
Baby Jim was given the name of withashcuk
It meant the light after the lighting it's his clan cut
Thunder clan just like his daddy and Chief Black Hawk
Known as the Bright Path destined to be his fam's rock
He's like the year of 1887's gift from heaven to
Natives relating to sports and who hold it with a reverence
While baby Jim was nursing from his mother Charlotte's breast
American Horse was with Buffalo Bill's Wild West
The same year the Henry Dawes Act went in effect
They claimed it was to help us out and teach us to subsist
As if for centuries and centuries we didn't exist
It simply symbolized arrival of a different ship
And paved the way for greedy settlers to take more shit
Just like the Oklahoma land rush of '89 and 91
They ceded lands to thieves and crooks who came equipped with guns
These are the type of people who surrounded Hiram's sons
So Hiram had to keep a watchful eye to keep 'em from
Intruding on his ranch to rob the Thorpe allotment
But it was nothing new, except the legal cop in
Because a decade before this they were already plotting
Such maneuvers were acted out by those known as boomers
Who'd lobby to steal our lands and supplant us as intruders
When it was legalized you had the people known as Sooners
Who literally jumped the gun while snoozers were in their bloomers
Any land of ours that they considered surplus,
Was wrongfully deemed by them to no longer serve us
So they took it like the savages they truly were
And entire cities sprung up overnight unlike junipers
United snakes inspired revolutions of the day
Such as Wovoka's ghost dance a thousand miles away
From the Oklahoma ranch where Jim and Charlie played and laid
They saw our strength in numbers and became afraid we prayed
So they sent thousands of troops to try intimidate
Lakota ghost dancers 'til they'd no longer participate
And for the next month Pine Ridge was in a state of siege
When Sitting Bull was killed by Native cops who disagreed
Hundreds of kids and women murdered by the cavalry
Them coward travelers massacred them at Wounded Knee
Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou's camped out by the creek when
Them spineless troops went inside their camp to shoot them in their sleep
The same year scholars said colonization was complete
When football took a hold of America's imagination
In correlation with the modern man's mechanization
Welcome to the backdrop of the baby native born the greatest