True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

So I'd much rather get across the concept of freedom. It's what's important to Indian children. The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being. Otherwise you become what the colonizers have designed, and that is a lemming. Get in line, punch all the right keys, and die.

That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.

I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically correct. Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. And if you notice, I put American before my ethnicity. I'm not a hyphenated African-American or Irish-American or Jewish-American or Mexican-American.