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Come and Get Your Indian Education
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