For Indigenous Americans

The Mayan culture has been called the cradle of Indigenous American culture.Their Eighteen Suns Calendar has been called a splendid achievement of worldculture. This calendar and the Ten Suns Calendar of the Nuosu people can becalled treasures of Eastern and Western cultures of the world.

Tonight the plains are quietThe wind falls asleep on the hillsSo many secrets flowfrom the Southern Cross constellationThere’s just an ancient songcrooning in people’s bloodI think of youthe Indigenous peoples of South AmericaI think of an everlasting sunbeing transformed into a mother’s palmcaressing her children’s bronze facesduring the eighteen months of the yearI think of free tribes on the grasslandsthe men valiant as eaglesthe women gentle as waterThe elders established themselves in the Americasand raised up star-like mythsAn ancient people,children of the sunyou’re the reason the Americasseem so mysticalI think of how rivers on the landhave flowed through the ageswith the splendid Mayan cultureas their sourceThey flow from the ancient flooded wildernesswith the same boundless vigor as beforeUnending Peoplechildren of traditionyou enable humankindto see our pastand to see ourselves as children

Tonight the plains are quietThe wind falls asleepAn ancient songcroons in people’s bloodI think of Indigenous Americans

I think of my dear brothers and sistersWhen this quietude fills the world,I hear my own soulspeaking moving wordsBecausein Chinathere is an ancient Peoplewho have a splendid past like yoursThey have an everlasting sunbeing transformed into a mother’s palm, as beforecaressing her children,caressing their bronze facesBecausein Chinathere’s a Nuosu youthwho’s never seen an Indigenous Americanbut he loves them deeplyAnd that love is profound