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the Dakota Access Pipeline. Chief Leonard Crow Dog described his people’s struggle for preservation and their relationship to the world: “We do not own the land, the land owns us.”
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
Adding injury to injury, the annuity payments and food promised by treaty and on which the Dakota depended were rarely delivered, or were late and of substandard quality. The government’s policy had also been to deliver the annuity payments to traders in the territory rather than directly to the Dakota. The traders would skim, falsify records, and
... See moreDavid Treuer • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
But the Wasichus have put us in these square boxes. Our power is gone and we are dying, for the power is not in us any more. You can look at our boys and see how it is with us. When we were living by the power of the circle in the way we should, boys were men at twelve or thirteen years of ago. But now it takes them very much longer to mature.
... See moreJohn G. Neihardt • Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition
