True To Your Own Ancestors, Therefore True

I'd Like To Talk About Free Markets. Information In The Computer Age Is The Last Genuine Free Market Left On Earth Except Those Free Markets Where Indigenous People Are Still Surviving. And That's Basically Becoming Limited.

Tourists Came Around And Looked Into Our Tipis. That Those Were The Homes We Choose To Live In Didn`t Bother Them At All. The Untied The Door, Opened The Flap, And Barged Right In, Touching Our Things, Poking Through Our Bedrolls, Inspecting Everything. It Boggles My Mind That Tourists Feel They Have The God-given Right To Intrude Everywhere.

I Do Not Want To Be Civilized. I Want To Be Liberated.

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.

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.