Hi Jeri:
I don't think sacrasem is needed here, but thanks for the point. Carol, that is the point. We have a community which has gone through genocide, so one does not want to drop a safe on their heads to make a point. But, I do, I believe make a point, which Jeri understands. Not everyone gets everything you write the first time they read it.
As to the song you mention. Vertually all the songs I write, I write from some level of personal involement. I avoid writing songs from things I learn from the newspapers, as I would be just editing what news writers and editors have already written.
Yvette's song, about Native Canadian hunter gatherers and forced assimilation, is about Yvette Michelle, a dear freind I worked with for years, even my historical ballads about Quaker events are from the storries I was told as a child by Anna Curtis, the great great grandaughter of Judith Folger, (Judith Foldger's Ballad about the Peace Feather and the Easton Meeting) who was also the granddaughter of a conductor on the Underground Railroad and the sourse for the Ballad of Richard Murray. Anna's storries were as much a part of my childhood as they were a part of hers.
In my work, I may in fact be informed about the issue you bring up, and it may result in a song.
I will read the links and thanks for the thought.
Cheers Larry