It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.

The United States is a fake country.

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

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.

I never knew I was an artist until I did 'Last of the Mohicans'.

America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish it politically, or through education and science. But America has become a consumer society, and I see young people in the cities - of all colors and races - hanging out together over consumerism.