I was born where there were no enclosures.

Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.

I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

While living I want to live well.

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.

I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?

Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

Buddha gives me the strength to bring my words to life and he gives me the strength to share my love of life.

Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth.

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.

The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.