----------------------- NDC BINGO 2026 Genre: Native American Flute Theme: Democracy ----------------------- ──────────────────────── They built a school where the old trail crossed. They counted letters. They measured speech. They marked our names with borrowed sounds. They never asked what the river had already written. They filled the shelves. They emptied the fires. They thought a lesson ended when the bell stopped ringing. ──────────────────────── Eanan muitala. (The land remembers.) Eatnamat leat eallin. (The lands are alive.) Ii leat girjjis. (It isn't inside the books.) Lea bieggas. (It lives in the wind.) ──────────────────────── The wind still knows our names. The stone keeps older lessons. You can silence a classroom. You cannot teach the mountain to forget. ──────────────────────── Eanan muitala. (The land remembers.) Eatnamat leat eallin. (The lands are alive.) Ii leat girjjis. (It isn't inside the books.) Lea bieggas. (It lives in the wind.) ──────────────────────── If knowledge must be borrowed, why does the moss remember footsteps? If truth belongs inside a building, why does the sky refuse a roof? Every child is born already hearing a language the earth began. ──────────────────────── Teach the hand. Teach the eye. Teach the page. But leave one breath untouched. Because one breath becomes a song. One song becomes a people. One people becomes tomorrow.
