My tribe came from struggling labor...

My tribe came from struggling labor
Depression southern Eastern Illinois
Just before the southern hills start
To whirl toward the coal country
Where the east/west morainal ridges
Of Wisconsin trash pile up
At the bottom of the prairie, socially
A far midwest recrudescence of Appalachia
My grandfather French Quebecois
Master pipefitter in the age of steam
Indian fifty percent highly French
Who didn't derogate himself
As a bre showed none of those tedious
Tendentious tendencies. Came down
From Chebanse, from the Illinois Central
In Iroquois home to the Chicago &
Eastern