The poem is about Alexi Sherman forgiving the Americans for what they have done towards the Indians.
I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall
after that salmon swims upstream, through the mouth of the Columbia
and then past the flooded cities, broken dams and abandoned reactors of Hanford.
This is a quote from the poem and it shows the idea behind it. He keeps repeating the sentence “I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall” he means that he wants to forgive the Americans. After that sentence he tells us what he wants restored. All the things he wants restored link to each other to get the old Indian culture back. The sentence above is a great example of the figurative language he used. It’s not necessary for the cities to be flooded the Indian culture can be back without it being flooded.
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