32.

How history forgot that a Black woman

wrote the song Canadian troops marched to

in the Great War, that an Iroquois leader

Could have a state funeral in 1907

in Toronto, having been a doctor

and the leader of the International

Foresters. How history forgot forgetting

how Joseph Brant helped Canada

to exist, the Native names of these great

Sachems on both sides of the border.

How history forgot Moctezuma’s own words

despite the broken spears, voices of the vanquished

How the Indios were driven into the mountains

As if passive constructions could allay

How history forgot who did what to whom.