Dennis Banks

It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. ”

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. ”

The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running. ”

An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong. ”

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth. ”

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. ”

I'm on this road for the rest of my life. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”