ORCA K8 | SPS

5th Grade

Music Inspired By

We are Water Protectors

Written by Carole Lindstrom

Illustrated by Michaela Goade

Written by ORCA K8 School

STYLE Session 2022
June

Finished Song

LYRICS HERE

Chorus

You want to protect the water

Don’t want to be hurt by the oil

Down with, Down with the pipeline

Come up with another solution

Verse 1

Relocate the pipe

Runs through ancestral land

Relocate the pipe

Help in protest

Stop Polluting the earth

We’ve got to find another way

Stop Poisoning the plants

We’ve got to find another way

Verse 2

Don’t pollute the water

Less oil in our land

We can find a different way

Verse 3

cleaning the ocean, finding another way to get around

Make signs, Start to Protests

Rethink your thoughts now

Don’t litter, chant for justice

And equality

Make your world a better place by saving gas

Verse 4

Bike, Walk, Run

Make electric cars affordable

Transportation

and saving the river is compatible

Reroute the pipes,

so not to run through the dirt

It might raise gas prices

but it can save the earth

We can help the ancestral land by cleaning the ocean, finding another way to get around

Instrumental

Verse

Chorus

STYLE song by Geoff Larson

Still Here

About the Book

Carole Lindstrom

We are Water Protectors

Written by Carole Lindstrom

Illustrated by Michaela Goade

Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption—a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade.

Water is the first medicine.
It affects and connects us all . . .

When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth
And poison her people’s water, one young water protector
Takes a stand to defend Earth’s most sacred resource.

We are Water Protectors