We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it. Perhaps now that the time has come, We are fearful that what you take will be lost.... I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success: His education, his skills, and society.

Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.

Love is something we must have. We must have it because our spirits feed upon it.

If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.

Of all the teachings we receive, this one is most important: Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.

May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.

First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land