When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two very distinct cultures, western European and American Indian.

Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense.

Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.