I Don't Want To Be Remembered As

Imagine Going To The Holy Land In Israel, Whether You're A Christian Or A Jew Or A Muslim, And Start Carving Up The Mountain Of Zion. It's An Insult To Our Entire Being. It's Bad Enough Getting Four White Faces Carved In Up There [on Mount Rushmore], The Shrine Of Hypocrisy.

Children In Poverty Aren't Trying To Get Out Of Poverty; They're Just Trying To Rip Off A Pair Of Nikes. So We Indian People Are A Microcosm Of What's Happening In America. We Are Now Consumers, And Our Culture Has Gone.

Being Is A Spiritual Proposition. Gaining Is A Material Act. Traditionally, American Indians Have Always Attempted To Be The Best People They Could. Part Of That Spiritual Process Was And Is To Give Away Wealth, To Discard Wealth In Order Not To Gain.

America Always Put Forth This Phony Melting Pot Theory, But It's A Reality Now. They Couldn't Accomplish The Melting Pot Economically; They Couldn't Accomplish It Politically, Or Through Education And Science. But America Has Become A Consumer Society, And I See Young People In The Cities - Of All Colors And Races - Hanging Out Together Over Consumerism.

Indians In America Are Yet To Be Considered Human Beings, Even Though The Pope Issued A Papal Bull In 1898 That Declared Us To Be Human Beings. But To Show You The Institutional Racism, The Sports Teams Are Still Using The Indians As Mascots.