“There’s a romanticism in the glory to the Little Bighorn. We defeated Custer and all this and that, at that emotional level. But you know, within 15 years our leader Crazy Horse was dead. Sitting Bull was dead. You know, and we were herded up.”
“Who was Crazy Horse? Not who was Crazy Horse, who is Crazy Horse. Who he is is he’s an idea. He’s an embodiment of the human spirit. He’s an embodiment of what can be done when you’re centered and balanced within yourself as a human being. When you have a relationship to the spiritual reality that you are a part of. See to me, he’s an embodiment of that.”
“See when they got off the boat they didn’t recognize us. They said who are you? And we said we’re the People, we’re the human beings. And they said oh Indians, cause they didn’t recognize what it meant to be a human being.”
“I’m a human being. This is the name of my tribe. This is the name of my People, But I’m a human being. But then the predatory mentality shows up and starts calling us Indians and commiting genocide against us as a vehicle of erasing the memory of being a human being.”
“So they used war, textbooks, history books, and when film came along they used film.”
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