Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1975Vol. 46, No. 9

Milking the natives

p. 48 · Read in the full issue

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natives

By Moses Ymal Uludong

I never invited you but you came to my island and I welcomed you You told me I was a savage and I believed you You told me I was doomed to hell and I was scared you gave me your bible and I prayed You told me to till my island I planted coconuts for your profits you told me to dig holes and bunkers and 7 defended you with my life and land but you bombed my house and my land and I ran into the woods You told me you freed me from your war and I should be grateful to you as my liberator You established your government on my island without my permission You sent me to your school and I learned your way and 1 worked for you as an office boy you gave me your dollars and I bought your things Now you tell me / cannot live without your money your way your things and I believe you But I can only get them if I give you my island and freedom Never!!!

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