It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy for our future generations.

In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.

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.

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.

What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women?

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

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.