Indians In America Are Yet To Be

Young People And Indian People Need To Know That We Existed In The 20th Century. We Need To Know Who Our Heroes Are And To Know What We Have Done And Accomplished In This Century Other Than What Olympic Athletes Jim Thorpe And Billy Mills Have Done.

So I'd Much Rather Get Across The Concept Of Freedom. It's What's Important To Indian Children. The Only Way You Can Be Free Is To Know Is That You Are Worthwhile As A Distinct Human Being. Otherwise You Become What The Colonizers Have Designed, And That Is A Lemming. Get In Line, Punch All The Right Keys, And Die.

The One Thing I've Always Maintained Is That I'm An American Indian. I'm Not Politically Correct.

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.

[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."