Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities‚ but the White Earth reservation villages‚ and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake‚ Ponemah‚ Brookston in Minnesota‚ and Manderson‚ Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.

You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win.

The only compensation for land is land.

There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.

To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world ... whether its technological system is capitalist or communist ... and a host world. Native peoples, who occupy more land, make up the host world.