Occupation: Author Birth: March 26, 1933 Death: November 13, 2005
Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land - American Indians….
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours..
Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way th….
The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things..
This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it..
If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign..
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical..
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent..
Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it availab….
Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsi….
If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied intensely ….
Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two very dist….
Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successfu….
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which I lived. Gradually I ….
With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have been closed for near….
These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating.
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the wo….
But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant s….
Culture, as Indian people understood it, was basically a lifestyle by which a people acted. It was self-expression, but not a conscious self-expressi….
Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of their own ….
For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person..