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Song By: Okema
Instrumental By: Boogey The Beat
Mixed, Mastered & Directed By: Blu Barry
Elder Speaking: Floyd Redcrow Westerman
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Lyrics:
So what you know about the life of a native
Growing up thru generations most hated
Everyday my people get discriminated
Based on the stereotypes you done created
Nowadays you have the audacity to pass us off
As a lower class nowadays you laugh at us
But now is the day where we finally had enough
From this day forth now are the days we're standing up
Verse 1
To many years you oppressed us suppressed us
Infect us with your disease and left us
Millions of my people dead now you expect us
To forgive and forget like it don't affect us
You can try change history and hide
That it wasn't genocide but read between the lines and
You will find war crimes masterminded
Now you wonder why our people turn to suicide and
Have a hard time searching and finding
Who they really are cause their constantly reminded
Of the time when you came uninvited
Entered are homes and took our young kids crying
Away from their families the tragedies
Left scars so deep no apologies
Will ever cover up the pain that you caused us
Now is the day where you'll see my people stand up!
Verse 2
Now are the days you'll commend and respect us
Gone are the days you apprehend and offend us
Pretend to us you're a friend but forget trust
We all know the scheme that you hide in your agendas
We all see thru the deceit and the lies
A smile in disguise but your eyes can't hide it
But now is the time that we'll speak and we'll rise
All you want is our demise but we can't stay silent
Through our chiefs and our elders we are guided
Divided we fall but together stand united
For our earth and our water we will fight it
Our mother earth is crying and now you cant deny it
We are not the enemy that we're said to be
We're thinking of the generation that's ahead of me
So we'll continue to take the earth back for all of us
White Black or Brown well together we should stand up!
They tried to erase indigenous people but look who's still standing. You can't get rid of a people with this kind of spirit.
*One of the best native songs!*
👇 agree here!
Also Winnipeg's most
Amen
222
Yes
Agree too listening from the warm springs oregon reservation
A grandson of a residential school survivor I stand with all my brothers and sisters. ✊🪶
The natives are beautiful people their suffering is not ignored, I respect them wholeheartedly.
Nice song my uncle loved this song but he died
Sorry my brother
You have a new Fan, and I am from the 306 as well
Much love but
Sadly we are ignored....
I am a proud Native Chickasaw and Choctaw Nation. I am proud of my heritage and have respect for the Native Pride.
Shout out to Sitka ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 He requested the lyrics which are now posted in the description! Thanks for listening lil bro! 💯💯💯💯
I just emailed the people told them that they have my vote on ur music video
Okema, I like your song. And so true. I've downloaded this song on to my list. STAY STRONG 😊
Thank you for standing strong! You are such a motivational inspiration. I just recently find this song and I'm in love with the Content. The message is deep 🔥👊 Much love from Az brotha. Stay doing you My Brotha 💯
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I love this song your a great artist I reshape on facebook so many times it really hit my feels and how it's all put together native pride ✊💯♥️
As a Proud Native Man I'm not ashamed to say this song brought tears to my eyes as it reminded me why to this day I still follow my grandfather's teachings. Im only 26 and these problem lay heavy on my Heart and Soul. You have my Respect Brother. Thank you for this message I will share it with everyone.
Me to man and I'm only 11 years old today yeah I know love the song and are people get that you are inspiring to me and are people
Only 24 years old here And I agree the Message And Emotion put
Into this song felt like a beautifil Spiritual Connection to the 3rd eye and
Our Beautiful Culture and never forgotten murdered Ancestors
Stay Solid My Brothers and Sisters
Our Voices Are Going to get Much much louder so Watch FB
And pay close Attention.. because our Living , brethren and Sisters Are
PISSED and Heartbroken because of the Stereotypes branded
On our people:( ..
Inspiration to this song must have made HIM cry "While"
Finishing up the Entire Song or listening to the Final Edit before
Online publish, regardless this song is SOO beautiful that
Literally Almost all of us Agree with it even if
The Qoute on Qoute "Normal" Do NOT... Because we Refuse to be Decieved Subconsciously ^_^
Carlos Strongquill love it
Much Love! Thank you for sharing and support! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Osiyo, proudly stand up and NEVER forget!!!
Much love and respect to my fellow Native brothers and sisters.
Aho
Respect to all my native people
You to bro love you my native people
Yes
I'm Native American n this song sends a strong message no lie
all?? really?? whatever...
@@OccupyBlackMedia yes all native people can't you see the beauty in that or can't get past what you definition of native is.
Sayisi dene first nation's almost got wiped out n we are still here strong a proud
Natives forever.... Love to all brothers and sisters...
Around the world. Stupid settlers!!! Delutinal eyropeans on stolen lands 😵💫
"Life of a Native" is now on the Indigenous Music Countdown! Sitting at #17 and I need your help to climb the charts. To vote please email countdown@ncifm.com and in the subject line put Okema Life of a Native vote! Let me know when you do so and I'll give you a shout out!!! Hiy hiy and eager get some more music to my natives! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
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Love you okema
thank you
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Proud of you My Brother. I'm proud of your parents and proud you are my brother.
Proud to be a NATIVE ✊🏽 💙 Thank you for making sure they dont forget cause we havent forgotten what they did to our ancestors!
Revenge wars? Only Blue hearts? Yeah I think you forgot what your ancestors was fighting for! Maybe you should go ask the code talkers! Because it wasn't nothing to do with being Proud or revenge! It was simply PEACE for US ALL! 💜
As a proud 23 year old native Canadian this song makes me go in tears cause I walk around and everyone looks and discriminated me cause I'm a native
Manitoba?
Exactly 💯... Buy Crypto... Buy XRP aka Ripple.
You will become rich.
I know how it feels ,I been discriminated all my life .
Same here. Hated by everybody! Your not alone!
Trying being half white it sucks going back home and I speak better yupik then the generation under me. 🥺
The natives are beautiful people. The few that I have met were very kind to me. They had a great sense of humor and were strong willed. I'll give the shirt off my back. Much love from Mississippi. Remember tough times don't last, but tough people do.
Amen 🙏
and know we would do the same for you ❤
Just don't give us too much alcohol after midnight. Or before.
Born and raised in Texas (Tejas), (We) Natives got nothing but respect.
Oct 2023 and the land is crying to be healed 💙
Make America 500 Nations Again
Prayers Up, Smoke Down!!!! A'HO!!!!
Love all my Native brothers and sisters that were here already before 1492 both on North and South America 🤎🤎🌎 Native America
HAPPY TURTLE ISLAND DAY...TRIBAL LAW IS THE MOST IMPORTANT LAW...ASE AHO MOORE NATION GRAND RISING ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Brothers of the struggle unite, love y'all from the earth to the sky.
Sweet native family of mine🇺🇸😘😍✊ fighting stay stronger
I went to my first pow wow with my grandmother, in a dress she hand made for me...I’ll never feel ashamed of my heritage. Oneida Nation 💜
My people are tough strong ,bring it on 😢 2024❤
We still here 🪶
Much love n respect ❤️ from a native aboriginal Aussie
Classic Native American Hip Hop ✊🏽🖤❤️💛🤍🪶🪶🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
EVERY CHILD MATTERS
Why is this the message on top of TH-cam TH-cam barely any support when it displays a really important part of our native ancestry and culture that still has affect on us all today!
FIRME HOMIE!
BROWN WISE AND PROUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The truth in one song
Mikmaki Strong "N.S" ✊️🔥🏹🎯..Native Pride World Wide ✊️🤟
My mother is Irish and Scottish and my father was Native American. Much love to my Native brothers and sisters.❤
Straight facts. Native pride nation wide. Lummi Nation still here. Much love my natives
Hopi, Aztec,Mayan,and Tarascan Blood flow through my veins, Native Pride till the day I die!!! Much Love to other tribes and nations!
We're in this together.. feeling this here. My Native
Much love to all my Native brothers an sisters. From the 505 SHIPROCK NAVAJO NATION TO ABQ NM #DINE'
Truth in all he's rapping about 😥👍👍👍👍👍👍💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
Stand the Ef up ...!!!!! Respect ✊...
One on Oneida Rez heres yah.❤
Hair stands up tall. Just like my natives. Well done.
RESPECTED in every way RESPECT everything I’d say.
I am an Italian now living in California, I loved the message of this amazing track and I'll do my best to support your battle from now on. United we stand, stay blessed
I am n korean
I will always stand for my native people and fight for them
As a Native man this song touch me in so many levels. Absolutely! A master piece.
A beautiful song, never b ashamed of who you are or where you come from. I love this song. It shows strong honor. I'm so sorry that Native Americans went through all this pain. The land was yours to began with & I will never 4get it, something that we all needs to know. Our history books needs to be rewriting, they are teaching our children lies. It's hurts me to know that people were treated this badly when I thought only my people were. I hope this song will open up people eyes & hearts.
Thank you, I am an aboriginal man from Australia. I understand and feel your pain.
Chahta Sia Hoke!!! One Nation as Tecumseh once said!! Yakoke
Keep em coming! We need a voice more than ever
how about shares
Okemo LOVE THIS SONG NATIVE AMERICAN REPPIN SISSETON SOUTH DAKOTA!!!!!!
I'm here to pay my respects.
Yessss brother Yessss please! Time to rise, the time is NOW-gather the nations
The most beautiful culture
I got respect for all nations race and everything else in this mother earth we all live on.
Natives stand together one for all and all for one 💪 love you guys
Love From The Native Power 💪💙
Native Pride 💯Always Strong!!💪💪💪💪Good Song!
hail from one Hucha Hudan first nation!! Yukon, Canada
This song does not get the recognition that it deserves.. as a full blooded native this brought tears to my eyes 💖💖💖✊
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
True hurt's !!! We are still here brothers and sisters !!!Okema 💯% SAID......
Respect from navajo nation my native keep us all alive
NATIVE PRIDE my people, ALWAYS ALWAYS.... BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE. Dam it feels good to be indigenous. I know what it's like to be struggling. STAY STRONG all you awesome natives.
As a half breed this really hits home hit the heart ❤️.
This need to be put big screen , radio everywhere , wow
This gave me chills..
Much Love and thanks for listening! ✊🏽
Half Seneca Indian love my native brothers and sisters..🤎🤎🤎
Im a 34 yr old native man and this song brings tears to my eyes.
Please keep voting my natives!
Love this song...
#Native_We_Stand ✊❤
The only Native rap song I fw..💯 nice
To all my natives out there around the whole world keep on praying and God bless you
Stupid settler system, masons, politicians disgusting pieces of 💩. They probably belif all thrir delutinal corrupt lies 🤡
Thank you Creator for Okema! 🖤❤💛🤍💯
Our two Peoples met over a thousand years ago in the Northeastern portions of Canada/USA. While there was peace and trading, it eventually ended in bloodshed, and my People retreated back to Greenland and Iceland. It's an amazing history to embrace, especially knowing the majority of people still believe Christopher Columbus "discovered" the Americas in 1492 when there were people already living here. Regardless of our initial contact and their dire results, know now that today in 2021, this Germanic/Norse Heathen tribesman embraces and supports two local Native powwows and attends both annually with my wolfdog, Beowulf. I remind myself that we are all more alike than we are different. This current age of division has an unseen puppet master attempting to turn us all against one another based on something as silly as the colors red, white, black, brown, and yellow. Let's come together and end this war, and strive again for peace among People, all People: Americans, Europeans, Africans, and Asians. The only color that matters is that we all bleed red. This can be what unites us As One. I wish to redeem my ancestors who met you 1,000 years ago. Peace will always be superior to war. I will beat my drums in your honor and to recognize the history of our Peoples and the alignment that should've been, could've been, and would've been, if only we understood one another through language and culture. Most of those barriers have been removed in 2021, so there should be nothing stopping us this time around. I will always be the first to offer my hand to help those who seek friendship. And I will always stand up for, and am willing to die for, those who are being abused or taken advantage of in any way. I am a Warrior first. My People were Warriors known by names such as Viking or Teuton. My ancestors were some of the rare few who stood up to the Roman Empire and were never conquered. Their blood runs through my veins. And my blood charges me to act, to help, to defend, and to attack in defense of others. Africans bestowed upon me the boon of my nickname: "The White Lion." I am Kevin (Kveldúlfr - "Evening Wolf"), the son of Roger (Hróðgeirr - "Famed Spear"), eldest brother of Roger II (Hróðgeirr - lil "Famed Spear") and Jason (Jósteinn - "Horse Stone"). I am proud of my heritage and I embrace the educational process of sharing with, and learning about, all other cultures, traditions, and heritages. Let us stand together. Let us stand up for Our Peoples. AND let us stand against anyone who opposes us, our Tribal Paths, or our continuation of our Old Ways and Old God/s and Spirits. I will stand with all of you! We will not be silenced, and Our Peoples will never be erased, no matter how hard the Oppressors attempt to replace us with what they call "civilization." Let us bleed red together arm-in-arm, arms in hand as the Warriors we are meant to be like those Warriors who came before us! The war for Peace begins with us, as we are the first line of defense of our Old Traditions. We should not want our future generations to become the last line of defense. We need to fix things now while we still have breath in our lungs and "fight" left in our fists, always remembering that our combined mind-power is victorious Absolute over their might-power 100% of the time. I await Óðinn to throw his spear Gungnir overhead of all opposing participants as the signal, and symbol, to begin the inevitable redemption of our ancient Ancestors.
It is time to hear healing words of a native American an what we were put through
Ancient CemAnahuac will rise again ✊🏾
Creator blessed this man with the voice of the people. Wado
the world has not been in healthy balance since there was the greatest genocide of humanity! support to our native brothers, everything is coming to light. united against this havoc done to the natives and therefore also to the earth. Thanks for this song. I am Sardinian and I will always be on the side of the truth .❤️
This is life. What do u know abt a native?. Proud to be a native.that's right we had a enough
More More and More Music...Tell them the Truth!!!!
This song brings chills to me, Brown lady here, from Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦
He poured his heart out on this one!!!
Respect from the Sikh Nation to all The First.
This deserves millions of views. Respect from Vancouver.
Dido!
I’m a born Native American from the Lakota Sioux Tribe I’m proud of who I am and I stand unbroken undefeated
I have been trying to hold my head up with pride for my my family and all my relatives red black, brown and white ❤ I don't know how to stay down better ask creator for me
As third generation this song spoke strongly to my heart thank you for powerful words
This is what America needs more of, good shit representing and defending your culture
Found you Notifications love this song. Cree 204 Native Pride ♥️♥️
In loving memory of
Raul Daniel Blackowl
5-25-2005-12-15-2023
Born and passed in
Santa Fe NM USA
He and I would blast this song together ❤
I feel the pain with this song. We as Aboriginals in Australia are dealing with this on a daily basis.
RESPECT 🤝 ONE ❤
Chin up brother ✊
Wow Australia! I’m Canadian
@@sonicndmario2634 mario is with sonic to create MASONIC
indigenous of canada n australia can really relate to one another....1st nation cree here
I literally have to pause this song to post this comment because I'm just too distracted if not. I feel so prideful listening to this, our ancestors will always be in us and you're right This is our generation We are the next generation to put a stop to this systematic oppression they've created. If you're ever in the SoCal area or the southern Colorado area please reach out.
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I'm Proud to be native 🤎🦅
Much love to all my nations world wide. ❤️🖤💛🤍
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Proud to be NATIVE 💯💯💯
This song is so rad i love being a native American
My new favorite song 🤩 exactly what I've been saying for 43 years!!! Every single bit of it!!!
hell yeah!!! 🔥💯🎧🎼🎤 #NativePride
As a Mexican ..American... I'm proud to hear this song, I'm proud to share it, proud to like it, and love that it speaks the truth. Amen
SOUTHERN UTE INDIAN TRIBE AHO✊🏾
Ty for praying for us, you are amazing, glad you speak truth blessings and peace be with you
This popped in my feed this morning while I was driving my kids to school and I turned it up and replayed it all morning. The pain my brothers and sisters went through hits me to my core every time . It’s constantly on my mind even though I’m from mexica , and and our language died with my great grandfather but I’m trying to reconnect and learn as many languages I can can learn to pass it on . I really have hope for the future generations especially with these songs , I stand strong to this cause for the future generations!!!!! Subscribed!!
noice
True story . This song is so true about us natives .
Thank you everyone for the support! Please be sure to subscribe to my channel for new releases! Hiy Hiy!
Couldnt put it any better much love from Red Lake Indian reservation in northern MN👊🏾