No Human Being Should Ever Have To

In Them Days, It Was Just Still Not Illegal To Kill An Indian. If You Killed An Indian, You'd Be Very Unfortunate If You Got Probation - Most Of Them Were Released Immediately.

I Was Like So Many Others Passion-ately Involved In Trying To Bring Those Truths To The World's Attention. We Did Our Very Best To Peacefully Do That. The City, State, And Federal Governments Did Their Very Best To Quell Our Efforts. They Were Used To Using Heavy-handed Tactics To Silence Us.

To Heal Will Require Real Effort, And A Change Of Heart, From All Of Us. To Heal Means That We Will Begin To Look Upon One Another With Respect And Tolerance Instead Of Prejudice, Distrust And Hatred. We Will Have To Teach Our Children-as Well As Ourselves-to Love The Diversity Of Humanity....we Can Do It. Yes, You And I And All Of Us Together. Now Is The Time. Now Is The Only Possible Time. Let The Great Healing Begin.

In The Past, When We Were Initially Organizing To Bring About Changes, Our Elders Had Little Or No Political Experience. However, Today, Most Of Those American Indian Movement Organ-izers Are The Elders. They Are Quite Adept At Bringing Attention To The Public About Any Attacks Upon Our People.

The America That Never Cared Or Felt Guilty About Portraying Us As Undignified People On Their Television Screen, Or In Some Old History Book That Never Stated Truthfully The Facts Of Our Invasion Or The Cruelty We Had To Endure For Generations.