If I Want My People To Be

I've Always Considered Myself A Man Of Integrity As A Leader Of The American Indian Movement And Of Indian People. I Will Stand That Test Against Anyone At Anytime, Anywhere.

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'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.

[the Is] A Mistaken Belief That [the Word Indian] Refers Somehow To The Country, India. When Columbus Washed Up On The Beach In The Caribbean, He Was Not Looking For A Country Called India. Europeans Were Calling That Country Hindustan In 1492.... Columbus Called The Tribal People He Met "indio," From The Italian In Dio, Meaning "in God."

I Had Often Wondered How To Best Decolonize My People... It Must Be Done One Human Being At A Time. Without That Kind Of Help, Western Society Does Not Allow People To Come To Terms With Their Feelings. With Honesty And Therapy, My People Can Be Made Whole Again.