I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that the Indian Nations do not have title to their lands because they weren't Christians. That the first Christian Nations to discover an area of heathen lands has the absolute title. This doctrine should be withdrawn and renounced to establish a new basis for relationship between indigenous peoples and other peoples of the world.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the historic injustices faced by Indigenous peoples due to prejudiced legal doctrines. It calls for the renunciation of such doctrines to foster better relationships between cultures.
Floyd Red Crow Westerman's quote addresses a significant historical injustice that marginalized Indigenous peoples by stripping them of their land rights based on discriminatory beliefs. He cites a Supreme Court decision from 1823 that declared Indigenous nations had no title to their lands simply because they were not Christians, suggesting that the first Christian nations to discover these lands held absolute title. Westerman advocates for the withdrawal and renunciation of such prejudicial doctrines to pave the way for a more equitable relationship between Indigenous peoples and the rest of the world, emphasizing the need for recognition and respect for Indigenous rights and sovereignty.
In practice
In a speech advocating for Indigenous rights at a university event.
No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.
When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.
If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
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