There is, in many Indigenous teachings, a great optimism for the potential to make positive change. Change will come. As always, it is just a matter … - Winona LaDuke

If private property has found safe haven in the Fifth Amendment, where is common property equally protected?

I always greet people in my language because I believe that cultural diversity is as beautiful as biodiversity, and that is reflected in language.

the poverty of dispossession is almost overwhelming. So is the poverty of complicity and guilt. That shame combined with guilt and a feeling of powerlessness, creates an atmosphere in which hatred buds, blossoms and flourishes. The hatred passes from father to son and from mother to daughter. Each generation feels the hatred and it penetrates deeper to justify a myth. Norman Grist suffered from Indian Hating Disease. He had it bad, knotted tightly and pungently in his gut