Only now the wisdom keepers
\nAs they see themselves, they come
\nAnd keep clear, and a watch, over
\nThese places, once sacred, before cast
\nCondemned as idolatry, they
\nWere dismissed as piseogs, stories
\nAnd in the name of the God who
\nMade this world, yes! and us and all
\nWe by holding him sacred forget
\nTo hold sacred the world He gave us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Only now the wisdom keepers As they see themselves, they come And keep clear, and a watch, over These places, once sacred, before cast Condemned as idolatry, they Were dismissed as piseogs, stories And in the name of the God who Made this world, yes! and us and all We …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[109],"tags":[396,12,397],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-natives","tag-nature","tag-pagans","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-3Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2174,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/as-if-minstrels-dressed-they-wear-sacred-feathers\/","url_meta":{"origin":247,"position":0},"title":"As If Minstrels Dressed, They Wear Sacred Feathers","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"3rd August 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Once upon a time in Ireland Not all that long ago When I was a young boy, a younger man People dressed for sun for show As minstrels, blackened faces Not for offense for fun It was a hard battle to stop the practice A battle fought with respect and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Current Affairs in Ireland"","block_context":{"text":"Current Affairs in Ireland","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/ireland\/current-affairs-in-ireland\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Skin painted red, wearing feather headdress, this girl at Glastonbury is as offensive to Native Americans as blacking up pretending to be African would be","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Skin-painted-red-wearing-feather-headdress-this-girl-at-Glastonbury-is-as-offensive-to-Native-Americans-as-blacking-up-pretending-to-be-African-would-be.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Skin-painted-red-wearing-feather-headdress-this-girl-at-Glastonbury-is-as-offensive-to-Native-Americans-as-blacking-up-pretending-to-be-African-would-be.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Skin-painted-red-wearing-feather-headdress-this-girl-at-Glastonbury-is-as-offensive-to-Native-Americans-as-blacking-up-pretending-to-be-African-would-be.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Skin-painted-red-wearing-feather-headdress-this-girl-at-Glastonbury-is-as-offensive-to-Native-Americans-as-blacking-up-pretending-to-be-African-would-be.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Skin-painted-red-wearing-feather-headdress-this-girl-at-Glastonbury-is-as-offensive-to-Native-Americans-as-blacking-up-pretending-to-be-African-would-be.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3183,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/fighting-the-black-snake\/","url_meta":{"origin":247,"position":1},"title":"Fighting the Black Snake","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"24th September 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\"If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.\" ~Hopi prophecy The Keystone XL pipeline is just one of quite a few projects set to cut accross sacred lands of the Native Americans. 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