Hollywood Hasn't Changed. It Is The Most

Young People And Indian People Need To Know That We Existed In The 20th Century. We Need To Know Who Our Heroes Are And To Know What We Have Done And Accomplished In This Century Other Than What Olympic Athletes Jim Thorpe And Billy Mills Have Done.

It Takes A Strong Effort On The Part Of Each American Indian Not To Become Europeanized. The Strength For This Effort Can Only Come From The Traditional Ways, The Traditional Values That Our Elders Retain.

Let Me Go To Clinton's New Proposal: To Have Uniforms In Public Schools. And People Are Doing That. How Come They're Doing That? Dress Codes! I Find That Abhorrent.

Imagine Going To The Holy Land In Israel, Whether You're A Christian Or A Jew Or A Muslim, And Start Carving Up The Mountain Of Zion. It's An Insult To Our Entire Being. It's Bad Enough Getting Four White Faces Carved In Up There [on Mount Rushmore], The Shrine Of Hypocrisy.

Even Though The American Indian Movement On A National-international Scale Has Proven To Be Extremely Dysfunctional, The American Indian Movement I Was Associated With I'm Very Proud Of. We Were A Revolutionary, Militant Organization Whose Purpose Was Spirituality First, And That's How I Want To Be Remembered.