In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.
The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.
Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.
Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life.
For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.