[Dialogue] Song reflection on Chicago Accelerate 77: "Footprints of Sikaa...

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Thank you, Ellen, for sharing your wonderful gift so freely.
 
Blessings,
Jann McGuire
 
 
In a message dated 9/11/2012 7:24:54 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
elliestock at aol.com writes:

 
 
 
Hi folks,
 
Attached is the musical notation for a song reflection on Chicago  
Accelerate 77 (Saturday, September 15):  "Footprints of Sikaakwa".   Below are the 
lyrics. 
 
Ellie
_elliestock at aol.com_ (mailto:elliestock at aol.com)  

 




FOOTPRINTS OF  SIKAAKWA
 
Footprints of  Sikaakwa
journeyed  lakeshore sands,
creatures  spinning stories
in winds  haunting the land,
swimming,  creeping, crawling—they came;
flying,  walking, stalking—they gamed;
hunters,  warriors, growers—they remained,
living lightly  on the earth of Sikaakwa.
 
Footprints of  Sikaakwa
turned rivers,  changed terrain,
paving trails  and forging rails,
farm ways to  factory days—
exploring,  trading, supplanting—they came;
building,  inventing, investing—they gamed,
artist,  industrialist, politician—they remained,
sculpting  rising skyline peaks of Chicago.
 
Footprints of  Sikaakwa
converged from  all directions,
cultures  clashed and merged,
stewing desire  and introspection—
laboratory of  urban life—they came;
microcosm of  courage and strife—they gamed;
movements  calling for justice—they remained,
stirring  brewing cauldron hope of Chicago.
 
Footprints of  Sikaakwa
blaze new  community,
people working  together
to thrive  sustainably—
welcoming  young and old—they came;
joining the  gifts of all—they gamed;
waking to  Earth’s vision—they remained,
living boldly  a real dream of Chicago.
 
                         ejhs
                         9/09/12
                         reflection on Accelerate 77, Chicago
“Sikaakwa”  (pronounced: “Sheekakwa”):   namesake of Chicago;   French 
pronunciation of Algonquian (Miami/Illinois) name for a wild  garlic/leek 
(Allium Tricoccum)  (striped skunk) growing along the shores of Lake Michigan 
and the Des Plaines  (branch of Chicago River) in the 1600s.




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