... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.

As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.

In America, law substitutes for custom.

Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

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