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

Indian people are relics; we do not exist in the present.

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.

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.

Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.

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

I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.