Red Cloud. Churchill. Sams.

The white man made us many promises, but he kept only one. He promised to take our land, and he took it. Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota, 1882.

The underlying motivation prompting the genocide of Native Americans, the lust for their territories and the resources within them, is typically hidden behind a rhetoric extolling the “settlement” of essentially vacant and “undiscovered” lands. To admit otherwise risks revealing that the past motives for genocide exists as much today, and in some ways more so. Ward Churchill – Creek/Cherokee Métis. Struggle For The Land, 1993.

What will humankind do if we awaken to a new, tangible world where freedom of choice is no longer an option, having been forgotten in ancient times? If humanity continues this senseless separation of body and will, mind and spirit, male and female, we will all die of sheer stupidity! Jamie Sams – Southern Mohawk, Seneca, Cherokee & Choctaw, and French. Earth Medicine, 1994.