Trudell Speaks About His Days As An Activist For Native Rights | April 17, 2008

“I started out idealistic. I believed. But I got past that pretty quick with the lies and violence and brutality and character assassination every step of the way when all we were saying was, ‘Hey, we’re human beings, and we want to be treated that way.'” 

“Here we are now, 40 years later, and the problems are just as bad, if not worse, than they were then. The biggest mistake that I see about it is we didn’t understand the power of our own intelligence and we emotionally reacted to situations when we should have been coherently thinking.” 

“This truly is a time for us to think and use the power of our creative mind and our creative intelligence for something healthy.”~