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El foc que mou la Terra

L′home blanc ha enviat paraules de bona voluntat
Sap que sabem que ell no necessita la nostra amistat
Però considerem la seva oferta
Perquè sabem que si no l'acceptem
Potser vindrà amb les seves armes, amb la seva guerra
A apoderar-se de la nostra terra
I no ho podem entendre

Qui pot comprar o vendre el cel?
Qui s′ha apoderat de cada estel?
Qui pot comprar o vendre el cel i la terra?
I es que qui s'ha apoderat de cada arrel?

I és que no ho podem entendre
Si nosaltres no som amos del corrent de l'aire
Ni del reflex de l′aigua
Com dir-t′ho

Les meves paraules, som com les estrelles
Mai no s'extingeixen, tu pots entrar dins d′elles
Cada part d'aquesta terra és sagrada pel meu poble
El poble viu del riu, i amb la natura és noble

Cada boira un vespre fosc, cada clariana
Cada fruit del bosc; la nostra set la nostra gana
I del nostre poble, l′home blanc vol ser-ne el pare
Perquè hem de ser el seu fill si compartim mateixa mare

Déu estima el poble vostre, i s'ha oblidat del nostre
Heu dit ser fill de Déu i el nostre poble l′heu fet orfe
Envaint la Terra, una terra desbordada
Com els rius que baixen d'una pluja inesperada

Qui pot comprar o vendre el cel?
Qui s'ha apoderat de cada estel?
Qui pot comprar o vendre el cel i la terra?
Qui s′ha apoderat de cada estel?

I si finalment us apodereu de la nostra terra
Heu d′ensenyar als vostres fills
Que la nostra terra és sagrada
Com ho són tots els avantpassats enterrats del nostre poble
Com dir-t'ho

I ensenya als teus fills, que la terra és incerta
I que som igual per dins, mateix sol el que ens desperta
I ensenya als teus fills, que la terra és incerta
I que som igual per dins, mateix sol el que ens desperta

I si seguiu contaminant el vostre terra
Morireu de la caiguda
I quan us cremi el foc que mou la terra
Brillareu en el foc del Déu que us va fer néixer

Així que estimeu la Terra
Tal i com nosaltres l′hem estimada
I amb totes les vostres forces
Conserveu-la pels vostres fills
Potser som germans
Esperem veure-ho

Atentament
El Cap Indi del Swaminsh
Al president dels Estats Units
1854

The Fire That Moves the Earth

The white man sends words of good will
He knows that we know he needs our friendship
As we consider his offer
Because we know should we accept
He will come with rifles, with his war
To take our land
And we cannot understand

Who can buy or sell the sky?
Who has taken every star?
Who can buy or sell the sky and the earth?
And who has taken every root?

And we cannot understand
If we do not own the running stream
Nor the flicker of the water
How can you

My words are like stars
Never fading, you can step inside them
Every part of this land is sacred to my people
Living from the river, with nature we are noble

Every pine shrouded evening, every sunlit meadow
Every berry in the woods – our hunger and our thirst
And from our people, the white man seeks to be a father
When should we be the son if we share the same mother

Your God loves your people, and has forgotten ours
You are called a child of God and our people are orphans
Spoiled in the land, a land rid of its overflow
Like rivers that flow from unexpected rain

Who can buy or sell the sky?
Who has taken every star?
Who can buy or sell the sky and the earth?
Who has taken every star?

And should you be successful in taking our land
You must teach your children
That our land is sacred
As the buried bones of our people are our kin
How can you

And teach your children, that the earth is precarious
And that we are equally in it, the one sun that awakens us
And teach your children, that the earth is precarious
And that we are equally in it, the one sun that awakens us

And should you continue to despoil our earth
You will perish in the fallout
And when the fire of the earth-mover burns
You will glow in the fire of the God who made you

So love the earth
As we have loved it
And with all your strength
Keep it for your children
Perhaps we are brothers
We shall see

Sincerely
Chief Swaminsh
To the President of the United States
1854