Quotes by Russell Means

Russell Means

‘Indian policy’ has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

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[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach in the Caribbean, he was not looking for a country called India. Europeans were calling that country Hindustan in 1492…. Columbus called the tribal people he met “Indio,” from the Italian in dio, meaning “in God.”

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All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated. Things come full circle, back to where they started. That’s revolution.

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Simple

America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it’s a reality now. They couldn’t accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn’t accomplish it politically, or through education and science. But America has become a consumer society, and I see young people in the cities – of all colors and races – hanging out together over consumerism.

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An oral society develops both sides of your brain, and the utilization of your brain is more complete than in a linear education module. The written word limits your brain capability by immediately focusing on one area. You don’t have any peripheral vision. It immediately divorces you from the environment.

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Divorce

Vision

Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn’t see the young people wearing braids or chokers or ribbon shirts in those days. Hell, I didn’t wear ’em. People didn’t Sun Dance, they didn’t Sweat, they were losing their languages. Then there was that spark at Alcatraz, and we took off. Man, we took a ride across this country. We put Indians and Indian rights smack dab in the middle of the public consciousness for the first time since the so-called Indian wars.

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Men

War

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we’ll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

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Land

Mean

Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.

Order

People

Spiritual

Children in poverty aren’t trying to get out of poverty; they’re just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we Indian people are a microcosm of what’s happening in America. We are now consumers, and our culture has gone.

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Nike

Rip

Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States – the cultural destruction.

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Colonialism

United States

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Quotes by Russell Means

Russell Means

‘Indian policy’ has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we’ll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.

Children in poverty aren’t trying to get out of poverty; they’re just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we Indian people are a microcosm of what’s happening in America. We are now consumers, and our culture has gone.

Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States – the cultural destruction.

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