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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.