Aim In Essence Is A Movement Rather

If You Look At The Statistics Regarding Native Americans, You Will See That Most Of The Tribes Since The 70s Have Improved Their Economic Situation In Some Form. And This Has Been Brought About By Their Aggressive Assertion Of Their Sovereign Treaty Rights.

I Would Like To Say, Historically, From The Very Beginning, Our People Have Time And Again Expressed The Need For People To Live In Harmony With The Creator, The Mother Earth, Fellow Man, And Respect Our Brother's Vision. In The Past And The Present, We Have Been Respon-sible For The Greatest Gains; Cultivated Foods And Medicines; Democratic Government, And Many Other Areas Of Concern.

It Is A Written Fact That Our People Had Warned Of All These Consequences Of Wrongful Environmental Behavior Since Our Very First Contact With The Non-indians. There Was A Time When Our Elders Used To Say To Us, "you Can't Function With One Foot In The White Man's Canoe And One Foot In The Indian's Canoe." With These Extreme Environmental Concerns Taking Place On The Earth, Mankind Is All In The Same Boat. Or Better Be.

Silence,they Say,is The Voice Of Complicity. But Silence Is Impossible. Silence Screams. Silence Is The Message,just As Doing Nothing Is An Act. Let Who You Are Ring Out And Resonate In Every Word And Deed. Yes,become Who You Are. There's No Sidestepping Your Own Being Or Your Own Responsibility. What You Do Is Who You Are. You Are Your Own Comeuppance. You Become Your Own Message. You Are The Message. In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse.

There Are Tribes, I Should Say Nations, Which Prior To The Aim Movement Had Only Ten Or Fifteen Employees, And Now Have Upwards Of 2000. There Are Educational Programs That Didn't Exist Before, There Are Housing Programs, Health Programs, Senior Citizen Programs, Cultural Programs And The List Goes On. It's All Because Some People Stood Up And Said Sovereignty Is Our Right By Treaty And The Constitution Says Treaty Law Is The Supreme Law Of The Land.