Zitat des Tages von Dennis Banks:
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
In 1967 the last Unity Caravan was held.
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.
Every man should see the birth of his children.
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.
I'm on this road for the rest of my life.
When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.
I have a Father's Day every day.
Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.
When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.
It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were.
An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.
I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was - it was terrible.
If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man.