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To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply Ours.

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.

Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.