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Meanwhile, in Canada
My great grandmother married a European white man
Just so her children wouldn't have to go to residential school
And endure the same pain and abuse that she was put through

Meanwhile, in Canada
In a small hick town my grandmother was called a lazy Indian woman
Despite being a hard working single mother of three children

Hands up don't shoot
Hands up don't shoot

Meanwhile, in Canada
We need groups like the Bear Clan who drag the Red River
Searching for the lost and murdered Indigenous women
Because the rest gave up or deemed it not important

Meanwhile, in Canada
The Sinixt Nation was declared extinct back in 1956
And to this day still standing strong fighting for the right to exist

Hands up don't shoot
Hands up don't shoot
Hands up don't shoot
Hands up don't shoot

Meanwhile, in Canada
"The executions of the Indians ought to convince the Red Man that the White Man governs"
A quote from Sir John A MacDonald

Meanwhile, in Canada
The saying was "Tame the savage to educate the man"
As they ripped apart culture and lynched up left hands

Hands up don't shoot
Hands up don't shoot

Meanwhile, in Canada
They say it takes seven generations to heal from the residential schools
But the last to shut down was only in 1997
Still years of healing to go through

Meanwhile, in Canada
This is only one small collective example
Of the wrongs and injustice inflicted
On just the First Nations People.

Hands up don't shoot
Hands up don't shoot
Hands up don't shoot
Hands up don't shoot

Meanwhile, in Canada
Racism and predjudism is real but the press would rather
Emphasize the chaos in the States for its exciting appeal

Meanwhile, in Canada
We sit atop a high horse of inflated ego claiming
We're better than that but it's time to face some very real facts

Hands up don't shoot
Hands up don't shoot
Hands up don't shoot
Hands up don't shoot

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