Lewis and Clark and re: The Trail of Tears poem

Bonus just saw Native American brother on a TV ad saying; to save our
land and said to go to this link to learn how? Warning from past?

http://www.lewisandclark.org/

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> The Trail of Tears
> By Brian Childers ©1998
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> I look to the long road behind
> My heart is heavy with my peoples sorrow
> Tears of grief I weep - for all that we have lost
> As we march ever farther from the land of our birth
> On the Trail of Tears
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> Mile after mile and day after day
> Our people are fewer with each rising sun
> Disease and starvation they take their terrible toll
> And though we suffer still we march on
> On the Trail of Tears
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> I watch my beloved weaken and fall
> Upon the road like so many before
> With tears in my eyes I hold my wife to my breast
> And in my arms she breathes her last
> On the Trail of Tears
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> Mile after mile and day after day
> We march to a land promised us for all time
> But I know that I can no longer go on
> I know that is a land that I shall never see
> On the Trail of Tears
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> As my body - it falls to embrace the earth
> My spirit - it soars to greet the sky
> With my dying breath am I finally set free
> To begin the very long journey towards home
> On the Trail of Tears