From House of Commons Debates, Official Report, Issue 2, Volume 2 by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. (Queen's Printer, 1967), page 1368:

When speaking of the Indians, Mr. Chairman, I remember when I was a child hearing one of the first Indian songs I ever heard. It is known as the Indian Lament. Many members probably remember it. I should like to quote the first verse of this song, because it is so true in relation to the subject we are discussing this afternoon:

An old Indian sat in his birch bark canoe
And sailed o'er the waters so deep and so blue
And he sang of the time when the lands were their own
Before the pale faced men among them were known.

This lament went on through many verses to commemorate the tragedy of their race. ...