The Future Has No Indians

October 14, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is indigenous peoples in honor of Indigenous People’s Day, which was celebrated on October 8.

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A poem about a future in which there are no indigenous peoples, and a desperate search for them:

The future has no Indians,

No Pacific coast.

Its mines are planets,

Its fire stars.

Huge colonies hover

Like worshippers,

Arms outstretched,

While galleons sail

On solar wind.

There are forty quintillion

Amazon jungles

Per single, sated termite,

And the only things

People tend to run out of

Are numbers.

But far out at the edges,

In ships that cube the speed of light,

A few daring scouts

Search desperately

For Indians.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Indigenous Peoples

10/8: Indians Are, of Course, Not Indians

10/9: We Have Become an Endangered Species

10/10: Indians? Just Get a Few

10/11: a-La-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak

10/12: The Trail of Tears

10/13: What Do We Owe the Dispossessed

10/14: The Future Has No Indians