Klee Benally Song of the Sun
Channel: EKENNYE
Date: 24/11/2013

Klee Benally Song of the Sun
Video for "Song of the Sun" from Klee Benally's upcoming acoustic album "Respect Existence or Expect Resistance." http://www.KleeBenally.com [Release date: Oct 12, 2013]
Camera operators:
Hillary Abe
Princess Benally

Red Butte, located 15 miles away from the Grand Canyon, is held sacred by the Havasupai Nation. Uranium mining threatens to desecrate this sacred site.

Mt. Taylor, held holy by Diné, Acoma, and other Indigenous Nations is also under threat from new uranium mines.

Visit http://www.stopuraniummining.org, http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/pr..., & http://www.indigenousaction.org.
Lyrics
Our mother aches
Iron claws dig until she breaks
And she bleeds for this
How much is enough?

I remember listening to songs of the sun
For all those, who's breath was stolen
Who's future was taken away
Who learned too late

CHORUS:
And so we sing again
To the house of dawn
There are no words, no words that can right these wrongs.

This land breathes pain
And nothing grows
that doesn't carry the trauma
that we've wept, that you sow...

CHORUS

this empire of blood and bones
of stolen, poisoned, homes...
genocide... mutilated ghosts...

fierce hearts lay buried... their struggle speaks...
fierce hearts lay buried... saying...
"leave it in the ground..."

While the mines lay abandoned -- What has been done?
Wells poisoned... nothing has been done?
Cancers spread... tell me, what has been done?
To right these wrongs! To right these wrongs!

CHORUS