Hemp as Earth Medicine | September 6, 2013

“Well, number one. Thanks for having me here. And I’m glad you all are here alright, start that off make sure there’s no misunderstanding about that. And I don’t know exactly where we’re gonna go because I kind of make this stuff up as I go along alright, and uh, I always say it up front you know, I’m crazy, alright? So if I say anything that you don’t agree with alright, I’m not trying to start shit, alright I’m just, just crazy, alright. And unfortunately if you don’t understand that then you’re not.”

“This whole idea, how many times have you said or heard people say I’m only human? Well see that’s just a very confused, a very confused interpretation and recognition of self because you only recognize a half of yourself when you say I’m only human. And that’s the whole point of the industrial mining process, to get us to not recognize the being part of human. Because the being part of human is where our power comes from. Our power doesn’t come from–our power comes from the energy, the essence, the being, spirit. Spirit being.”

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Of Earth And Elders : Visions And Voices From Native America, Introduction. | 1998

Crazy Horse said we live in the shadow of the real world and we really do. The coherency of our future depends upon us knowing who we are — and truly understanding who we are – because our relationship to reality and our relationship to power is based upon that understanding. Today we live in an industrial society and this technological perception of reality, this shadow world, presents a serious crisis: It is a reality where we don’t remember who we are, so therefore we don’t know who we are. We speak a language we don’t understand and because of this, we don’t know where we are. We are part of an evolutionary reality but part of the purpose of this technological civilization is to erase our memories and erase our identities. 

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Activist/Poet John Trudell to Perform | November 11, 1994

“I need to record another album. I’m doing a little writing. But I write because I have to write.”

“It’s about being human beings in a technological world. We can’t avoid (technology), but we’ve allowed it to feed off us, eat our spirit. We can alter this. If we live in the illusion of reality, we become the illusion. Let’s try to be coherent and seek clarity. Through that we will understand ourselves.”

“It’s not about hope, it’s about hangin’ in there. It’s not about consistency, it’s about persistency.” ~

SOURCE: Seattle Times