In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been resp….
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn….
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. ….
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian..
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things we….
The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the w….
As you know, today was Don't Take Your Illegal Immigrant To Work Day here in Los Angeles. No, all across the nation they had a Day Without Immigrants….
Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist withou….
In fact, Native American Rights Fund has a project called the Supreme Court Project. And quite frankly, it's focused on trying to keep cases out of t….
The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It may be cut off, but it ….
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do ….
Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read ….
United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a pe….
For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is ad….
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling..
We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?.
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In th….
Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected populations are minoriti….
We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit..
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the vis….
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil wa….