N'we Jinan Artists - "HERE WE COME" // Hazelton Secondary School, BC

"HERE WE COME" was created by a group of Gitxsan students at Hazelton Secondary School. Written & Performed by Mya Jack, Lexie Howard, Lainie Morgan, Percy Johnson, Desmond Mclean, Tatum Jack, Sarah Swift & Molly Pierre Jack. Video by Andrei Savu Produced by Cayden Carfrae, Andrei Savu & Rex Smallboy Mastered by Jon Tornblom Special thanks: Gitanmaax Band (Chief & Council, Dianne Shanoss-Executive Director, Pansy Wright-Simms-Education Coordinator) SWCC – Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition (Shannon McPhail & Board of Directors) Coast Mountain School District 82 (Robert Clifton, Director of Instruction – Indigenous Education, Louise Omerod-Principal) Marina Rubinato-Denny – Indigenous support worker ------------------------------------------ For more information: www.nwejinan.com/​ www.inpath.ca/ Media inquiries: [email protected] LYRICS: Chorus: Here we come Here we go Land Back! That's our goal! Lost a lot but now our cultures gonna take us home Lost a lot now our medicine will keep us strong x2 Mya Jack: You put your pain on me, I don’t put my pain on you i still got my love that's how we made it through Left it all out there I rise Our land is our prize Lexie Howard: Never give up The world may be hard on you Chase your dreams Be happy it will get you through People try to bring you down You know you got this You need to prove them wrong Don’t let them stop it Lainie Morgan & Percy Johnson This Rez life! Got me feeling like I'm gonna die. I tell myself everything is gonna be alright Don’t wanna die! Because of this Rez life gonna leave all of the bad stuff behind Chorus: Here we come Here we go Land Back! That's our goal! Lost a lot but now our cultures gonna take us home Lost a lot now our medicine will keep us strong x2 Desmond Mclean: I can not lie, These guys are dope, All this hope Can lead me to my dreams All these fiends keeping me These scenes that they can’t see Not what it seems You can feel free to speak I will dream big Tatum Jack: Trying to find the path they laid They mad it like a maze What’s the move, Tryna prove That we not afraid Sarah Swift: So much loss So much hurt My heart ripped out Still beating But not eating I can’t slow down We fighting genocide x4 Poem: Sarah Swift May 5th Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Day That’s one of the only times I hear about it discussed outside of school that’s just cruel if you want to see change you don’t talk about it once a year you don’t put white men in charge of Indigenous cases they don’t understand or want to understand Indigenous culture if this was white women and girls law enforcement would be all over it trying to get answers but it’s not white women, it’s indigenous women The Murder rate of Indigenous women is 3xs higher than white women[ MMIW — Native Womens Wilderness] and murder is the 3rd leading cause of death for Indigenous women [ MMIW — Native Women's Wilderness] Do you see how that’s a problem? Somewhere out there not too far from home There is a family who has so many questions A family that is waiting for answers that might never come A family that is grieving the loss of their daughter, sister, mom well at least they talk about it once a year Molly Pierre Jack: I been feeling lonely, I been wishing that I don’t feel This way, This way Tryna Let go of the old me and the stories We change, We change Chorus: Here we come Here we go Land Back! That's our goal! Lost a lot but now our cultures gonna take us home x2