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John Springer Collection/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption John Springer Collection/Corbis via Getty Images Woody Guthrie s This Land Is Your Land is considered an alternative national anthem but Native Americans will just as soon point out that the core of the song is a colonialist message. John Springer Collection/Corbis via Getty Images Woody Guthrie s This Land Is Your Land has long been offered as an alternative national anthem, performed by musicians from Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger to Chicano Batman and Sharon Jones. Its message seems fairly simple we are all equally entitled to the rights of this country, including the land we stand on. But Native Americans will just as soon point out that the core of the song, that this land was made for you and me, is a wholly colonialist message.

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