Dennis Banks Quotes
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Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.
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When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
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It feels like now I - you know, I'm almost 80 years old - I can sit back and retire, you know, and say, 'Look, our young people are taking over.' And that's great. That's what I'd like to see.
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It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were.
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It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.
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Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.
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Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
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In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.
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I have a Father's Day every day.
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In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.
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It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.
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I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was - it was terrible.
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And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
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That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
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The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.
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If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man.
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I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school, 300 miles away from our home.
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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
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Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
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I'm on this road for the rest of my life.
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In 1967 the last Unity Caravan was held.
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When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.
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An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.