Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

I hope many of you will be people that question why things are and why we have to do them the way we have always done them. I hope you will take some risks, exert some real leadership on issues, and if you will, dance along the edge of the roof as you continue for life.

Remember that I am just a woman who is living a very abundant life. Every step I take forward is on a path paved by strong Indian women before me.

We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.