John Trudell: Dreaming is a way of seeing and thinking. And generally, when we dream, when we’re dreaming awake, generally we don’t make bad dreams. So we’re seeking some kind of clarity or some kind of good with our dreams. You know from the time we’re young we’re imprinted that daydreaming is bad. Dreaming is not good, you know, but they do that to us because if we’re not, if we’re daydreaming we’re not paying attention to what they’re trying to make us do, right. And so really that’s why I think that they attack the whole concept of dreams, or dreamers, or Dreaming. I mean from the industrial level, because it takes our attention away from them.
The ultimate enemy to this whole way of life is those who think differently. See, they don’t want us to think different. And thinking different is thinking for ourselves. I mean thinking, not believing, but thinking. And you know so anything that’s going to really be, address the reality of thinking and the relationship of thinking to power, is going to be unacceptable by the industrial ruling class. They’d much rather have us fantasize and wish, because that means we’re not thinking, we’re not activating anything, we’re just fantasizing and wishing, nothing real to it. One of the things about the bad guys is that they’re convenient for us to have because as long as we have them to blame then we don’t really, we give ourselves a back door out. The voters and the people didn’t take responsibility in the sense of saying to the candidates during that election, no we we want you to make coherent sense to us, we want you to explain to us sensible, reasonable, things as to how you’re going to fix stuff. They didn’t demand it of Bush or Kerry. They didn’t demand it of McCain or Obama. They just promises, promises, see, so now they can blame these guys when these things don’t come through the way they want it to but, but by the very fact that people don’t take responsibility and say to the political entity, look we want, we want programs that make sense and we want them explained to us before we’re going to vote. We’re not going to vote for you. We’re going to vote for the programs and the ideas that make the most sense in a practical way.
Yeah I guess you would call it an identity crisis, But I think the identity crisis isn’t limited to these kids. They’re just manifesting their behaviors the way they’re manifesting their behaviors because they’re young and that’s how they’re doing it. But I think there’s an identity crisis going on throughout the community. Some of us that are most proud to be indian I think are having an identity crisis, you know, and that’s why we exaggerate the proud, there’s certain things, see so I think there’s an identity crisis and the identity crisis that exists amongst all of us is we no longer really, we don’t think and recognize ourselves as human beings anymore. So we’ll quarrel over who’s most indian right, but when we have those things that to me represents an identity crisis because we’re human beings, you know, and we should be thinking in those terms.
We’re being programmed with the data and the information that it takes to run the machine. We’re not being taught knowledgeable things you know and so our energy is getting, so they’re using our energy up in this kind of a way and in the programming of data and information to run the larger machine our energy is being used that way rather than being, being taught knowledgeable things that would be beneficial.
Interviewer: You talked about the drunken Indian. He didn’t go this way, he didn’t go that way, just stayed put yeah I’m not gonna be your, I’m not gonna go play, like the pied piper…
You won’t let me be a human being, you won’t, and I don’t want to be white, so this is what I’ll do, this is how I’ll get through it, that’s what, and that’s really what I look at that as. And it played a role that, it was beneficial to us in the long run because it kept us alive and it kept an attitude alive, but it’s a role that we need to find a way to phase out. ~