Meanwhile, in Canada

My great grandmother married a European white man

Just so her children wouldn't have to go to residential school

And endure the same pain and abuse that she was put through

Meanwhile, in Canada

In a small hick town my grandmother was called a lazy Indian woman

Despite being a hard working single mother of three children

Hands up don't shoot

Hands up don't shoot

Meanwhile, in Canada

We need groups like the Bear Clan who drag the Red River

Searching for the lost and murdered Indigenous women

Because the rest gave up or deemed it not important

Meanwhile, in Canada

The Sinixt Nation was declared extinct back in 1956

And to this day still standing strong fighting for the right to exist

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Hands up don't shoot

Hands up don't shoot

Hands up don't shoot

Meanwhile, in Canada

"The executions of the Indians ought to convince the Red Man that the White Man governs"

A quote from Sir John A MacDonald

Meanwhile, in Canada

The saying was "Tame the savage to educate the man"

As they ripped apart culture and lynched up left hands

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Hands up don't shoot

Meanwhile, in Canada

They say it takes seven generations to heal from the residential schools

But the last to shut down was only in 1997

Still years of healing to go through

Meanwhile, in Canada

This is only one small collective example

Of the wrongs and injustice inflicted

On just the First Nations People.

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Hands up don't shoot

Hands up don't shoot

Hands up don't shoot

Meanwhile, in Canada

Racism and predjudism is real but the press would rather

Emphasize the chaos in the States for its exciting appeal

Meanwhile, in Canada

We sit atop a high horse of inflated ego claiming

We're better than that but it's time to face some very real facts

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Hands up don't shoot

Hands up don't shoot

Hands up don't shoot