It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us
Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that all humankind are related to each other. Each has a purpose, spirit and sacredness. It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. And in this understanding we believe we are related to all other living species.
What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian people. That there are treaties; that textbooks in every school in America have a responsibility to tell the truth. An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong. And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. From that, our own people began to sense the pride.
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.
If you look deep inside trust, you'll find truth.
When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.
It's hard to imagine that there are people in the country that have types of hateful, inexcusable, racist, white supremacist views.
Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.