When alone in a world, where integration exists,
Shedding culture for culture will always persist.
Assimilating ideas & plagiarizing identities,
Reversal of both and there’s still no serenities.
Shanawdithit, she was the Beothuk native,
'the last one standing', said the British legislative.
She was in Canada and Nancy April was her new name,
slaughtering her people, the British had no shame.
Renaming her was a tactic so she could become accepted,
the Terra Nova princess, she was sickly and infected.
Tuberculosis is what took her, suffering admist the strife,
but they said her infection, was the Beothuk way of life.
She did not reach thirty, she was the remains of a genocide,
her courageous people all fallen, to disease and homicide.
An extinct race now, only their stories live on.
for all those with memories, have long moved on.
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