The Backdrop Lyrics

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