In America, law substitutes for custom.

The root of oppression is the loss of memory.

The shadows cannot speak.

In America, law substitutes for custom.

It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.

My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed to be, whom I came from, and who would follow me... That's what she said and what she showed me in the things she did and the way she lives.

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.