After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.

There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.