It’s Just Unconscionable That America

Indians In America Are Yet To Be Considered Human Beings, Even Though The Pope Issued A Papal Bull In 1898 That Declared Us To Be Human Beings. But To Show You The Institutional Racism, The Sports Teams Are Still Using The Indians As Mascots.

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.

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.

It Takes A Strong Effort On The Part Of Each American Indian Not To Become Europeanized. The Strength For This Effort Can Only Come From The Traditional Ways, The Traditional Values That Our Elders Retain.

[the Is] A Mistaken Belief That [the Word Indian] Refers Somehow To The Country, India. When Columbus Washed Up On The Beach In The Caribbean, He Was Not Looking For A Country Called India. Europeans Were Calling That Country Hindustan In 1492.... Columbus Called The Tribal People He Met "indio," From The Italian In Dio, Meaning "in God."