Somebody’s Land

For thousands and thousands of years,

Aboriginal people lived in the land we now

call Canada.
 The land was where people built their homes,

played in the sun, and sat together to tell stories.

When the settlers came, they called the
Indigenous land Canada.

They said it was nobody’s land.

But it was somebody’s land.
 For thousands and thousands of years, Aboriginal
people lived in the land we now call Alberta.

The land where people cared for the rivers and trees, made
medicine from plants, and caught salmon and crab to eat.
When the settlers came, they called Indigenous
land their home.

They said it was nobody’s land.

But it was somebody’s land
 For thousands and thousands of years, Aboriginal
people lived in the land we now call Calgary.

Land where people designed their tools, built birch bark

canoes, and sang their songs.
For thousands and thousands of years, Aboriginal
people lived in the land we now call home.

Land where Indigenous people gathered in large

groups to hunt for food.
When the settlers came, they took Indigenous
lands and called it their home.

They said it was nobody’s lands.

But it was somebody’s lands.
The land we now live on, was Indigenous land.
It is Indigenous land.

And will always be Indigenous land.