An oral society develops both sides of your brain, and the utilization of your brain is more complete than in a linear education module. The written word limits your brain capability by immediately focusing on one area. You don't have any peripheral vision. It immediately divorces you from the environment.

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

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless you have a free society based upon the integrity of the individual. If you have a responsible society, these other issues will not come up in a responsible society, and that is what freedom is all about.

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

Even though the American Indian Movement on a national-international scale has proven to be extremely dysfunctional, the American Indian Movement I was associated with I'm very proud of. We were a revolutionary, militant organization whose purpose was spirituality first, and that's how I want to be remembered.