I just listened to “Welcome To The Plains,” and I don’t mean to pick on the artist because he seems like a decent young man, but the lines,

“And looking back now through the years Before the hands of man were here Rusty shovels found black gold And tumbleweeds were free like the Choctaw and Cherokee Before they had to call this land their home If only they could see how it’s gone”

are just all over the place. Like, there’s obviously a time jump between lines 2 and 3, that’s fine. But then, “the tumbleweeds were free” puts us around 1870 (tumbles are invasive) and the next line is “like the Choctaw and Cherokee [prior to removal],” but removal started in the 1830s, so the timeline is really weird. It’s okay to compare things that take place at different times, but the structure makes me feel like I’m lurching backwards and forwards in time with no clear progression

Also, the lines “were free” and “If only they could see how it’s gone” don’t make much sense. You could go and ask a Choctaw or a Cherokee person, right now, what they think. They’re still around. And still free, despite waves hands everything