First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages.
If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.
Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.
Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.