Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and you`ll know the Great Mystery didn`t intend them to be that way. We weakened the species and introduced disease by mixing what should be kept seperate. Among humans, intermarriage weakens the respect people have for themselves and for their traditions. It undermines clarity of spirit and mind.

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

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

Children in poverty aren't trying to get out of poverty; they're just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we Indian people are a microcosm of what's happening in America. We are now consumers, and our culture has gone.

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

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

May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones.