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Come and Get Your Indian Education

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Hey teacher

Can you teach me

Something you don’t

Understand?

 

Hey teacher

Can you reach me

If you don’t know

Who I am?

 

Come and get your Indian

Education

It’s your pow wow

Initiation

 

Feel the power

Of tribal nations

Come and get your Indian

Education

 

Kinomaage

Heh kinomaage

Heh kinomaage

Hey-kwe-da-hey

 

Kinomaage

Heh kinomaage

Heh kinomaage

Hey-kwe-da-hey

 

I’m not your Injun

In a closet

I’m not your John Smith

and Pocahontas

 

I’m not your mascot

Or logo

Not your Lone Ranger

and Tonto

 

Come and get your Indian

Education

It’s your pow wow

Initiation

 

Feel the power

Of tribal nations

Come and get your Indian

Education

 

Kinomaage

Heh kinomaage

Heh kinomaage

Hey-kwe-da-hey

 

Kinomaage

Heh kinomaage

Heh kinomaage

Hey-kwe-da-hey

 

Hey teacher

Don’t you understand?

You can’t kill the Indian

And save the man

 

Hey teacher

Can’t you hear what I say?

It’s the Earth

Will show us the way

 

Come and get your Indian

Education

It’s your pow wow

Initiation

 

Feel the heart-beat

All my relations

Come and get your Indian

Education

 

Kinomaage

Heh kinomaage

Heh kinomaage

Hey-kwe-da-hey

 

Kinomaage

Heh kinomaage

Heh kinomaage

Hey