If I Want My People To Be

Colonialism Has Completed The Destruction Of The American Indian In The United States - The Cultural Destruction.

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.

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

Indians In America Are Yet To Be Considered Human Beings, Even Though The Pope Issued A Papal Bull In 1898 That Declared Us To Be Human Beings. But To Show You The Institutional Racism, The Sports Teams Are Still Using The Indians As Mascots.

We Indians Do Not Teach That There Is Only One God. We Know That Everything Has Power, Including The Most Inanimate, Inconsequential Things. Stones Have Power. A Blade Of Grass Has Power. Trees And Clouds And All Our Relatives In The Insect And Animal World Have Power. We Believe We Must Respect That Power By Acknowledging It's Presence. By Honoring The Power Of The Spirits In That Way, It Becomes Our Power As Well. It Protects Us.