people...keep talking about decolonization like it’s a head problem — they’re really talking about undoing racism. They don’t realize it’s a territor… - Lee Maracle

There has to be humour to open up the person to the subject of change, the possibility of change. You have to be open. Humour opens people up.

I am not a passive woman. I was there, bearing down and shedding blood in the creation process of my children, and I will be there should anyone obstruct my right to nurture them. Does that make me violent? No. It makes me a profound lover of creation. I will be there should anyone decide to invade my tree relatives in the Stein, and I will be there for the Mohawks at Oka, should the police run amok again and organize themselves to attack them. I don't confuse peace with passivity. I don't confuse defense with aggression.

All these things occurred in each village but a village doesn’t make a nation and that’s what I got from him (Khahtsahlano) – yea, we were a nation once and we can be again.