American - Activist | April 12, 1932 -
I have a Father's Day every day.
Dennis Banks
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If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man.
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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.
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The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.
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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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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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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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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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Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
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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 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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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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