Antietam Lake will now be protected

Antietam Lake

It is with great happiness I can tell you this land will be preserved - protected from development.
The struggle has lasted many years.

On this land are the remains of our people's old village.
It will now remain!

When I first came to this struggle a poem was given to me.
I think it is appropriate to reread now. (Shyhawk 2007)

Why I Must Go Alone

by ShyHawk

I stand upon my homeland,
now lush and green
Yet – soft voices here call once more,
to my heart it would seem.

On the slope
a circle of soft eccentric brown lies
Once home to the Unami
Whose spirit stars now fill the night skies.

Spread across the slope
many more circles are found,
Old wall remnants – stone works
and mounds,
Aho

At first I am happy – now I am sad
I know too well of this place no one may be told
For those with black hearts will come,
then the bones of my ancestors will be sold!

Desecration, Disrespect, and Greed!

Are these the things in today's world needed to succeed?
No!!!! – For me in this circle a different truth is revealed
It is the ways of the Old Ones I will heed.