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• 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.

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  Children, Keys, Important

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• They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

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  Knowledge, Pie, Wonder

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• If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.

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  People, Want, Ifs

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• When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again!

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  Cute, Braids, Crabs

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• I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

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  Want, Patriot, American Indian

  Source: progressive.org

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• In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

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  School, Thinking, Government

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• The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

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  American Indian, Mexican American, Politically Correct

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The United States is a fake country.

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  Country, Fake, United States

  "Native Americans 'slaughtered, sacrificed, fenced in reservations' in US". Interview with Nadezhda Kevorkova, www.rt.com. OCtober 24, 2012.

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• America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish it politically, or through education and science. But America has become a consumer society, and I see young people in the cities - of all colors and races - hanging out together over consumerism.

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  Reality, Color, Cities

  Source: progressive.org

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• Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

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  Hollywood, Racist, World

  "Indian Activist, Actor Russel Means Dies". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 22, 2012.

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• I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

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  Government, Age, Useless

  Source: progressive.org

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• Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

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  Freedom, Mean, Land

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• I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.

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  Writing, Arrogant, Alive

  "HERB CAEN -- Caennecting the Dots" by Herb Caen, www.sfgate.com. January 31, 1996.

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• Even though the American Indian Movement on a national-international scale has proven to be extremely dysfunctional, the American Indian Movement I was associated with I'm very proud of. We were a revolutionary, militant organization whose purpose was spirituality first, and that's how I want to be remembered.

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  Organization, Movement, Want

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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.

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  Hero, Athlete, People

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• I say to the Christians and to every missionary on the reservations, you're welcome to have a church here if you can support yourself. But if these churches can't support themselves, then take the hint and quit using our poverty for your direct mail solicitations.

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  Christian, Support, Church

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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.

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  People, Age, Earth

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• 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.

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  Honesty, People, Feelings

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• I never knew I was an artist until I did 'Last of the Mohicans'.

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  Artist, Lasts

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• Children in poverty aren't trying to get out of poverty; they're just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we Indian people are a microcosm of what's happening in America. We are now consumers, and our culture has gone.

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  Nike, Children, Rip

  Source: progressive.org

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• Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.

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  Colonialism, United States, American Indian

  Source: progressive.org

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• I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

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  Telling The Truth, Weak, Used

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• 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.

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  Home, Doors, Touching

  "The Ethics of Tourism: Critical and Applied Perspectives". Book by Brent Lovelock, Kirsten Lovelock, p. 144, June 26, 2013.

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• Indian people are relics; we do not exist in the present.

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  People, Relics, Indian

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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.

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  Integrity, Men, People

  Source: progressive.org

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