41 Quotes by Dennis Banks

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

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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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    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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