I Don't Want To Be Remembered As

They Don't Understand That A Slice Of The Pie Isn't The Whole Pie - But They Wonder Why They Are Always Hungry

You Can't Talk About The Environment, You Can't Talk About Political Correctness, Affirmative Action And All The Other Innumerable Things That Freedom Is About, Unless You Have A Free Society Based Upon The Integrity Of The Individual. If You Have A Responsible Society, These Other Issues Will Not Come Up In A Responsible Society, And That Is What Freedom Is All About.

So I'd Much Rather Get Across The Concept Of Freedom. It's What's Important To Indian Children. The Only Way You Can Be Free Is To Know Is That You Are Worthwhile As A Distinct Human Being. Otherwise You Become What The Colonizers Have Designed, And That Is A Lemming. Get In Line, Punch All The Right Keys, And Die.

Before Aim, Indians Were Dispirited, Defeated, And Culturally Dissolving. People Were Ashamed To Be Indian. You Didn't See The Young People Wearing Braids Or Chokers Or Ribbon Shirts In Those Days. Hell, I Didn't Wear 'em. People Didn't Sun Dance, They Didn't Sweat, They Were Losing Their Languages. Then There Was That Spark At Alcatraz, And We Took Off. Man, We Took A Ride Across This Country. We Put Indians And Indian Rights Smack Dab In The Middle Of The Public Consciousness For The First Time Since The So-called Indian Wars.

I Knew At That Young Age That Going To The Bureau Of Indian Affairs Was Useless, Absolutely Useless. I Grew Up Having No Faith In The Bureaucracy Of Government.