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

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

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

The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

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.

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of their own very short-term investigations, than the collective remembrances of the rest of humankind.