I don't know what those white people in this country feel,

but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institution.

Now, this is the evidence.

You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children,

on some idealism which you assure me

exists in America, which I have never seen.

Okay, we are in week three of our four-week series on Indigenous People's Day.

So, Garen, well, first off, maybe if you're listening to this,

you should go back. And you haven't listened to the first two parts. You should definitely go

back and listen to that. But Garen, let's get started on part three. What do we need to know?

What are we going to be talking about? So today, we're going to talk a little bit more,

go widen the lens. And instead of just looking at a couple stories that we look at in more depth,

we're going to give kind of a lot of examples of different indigenous leaders trying in different ways to carve out a path for their people to exist and see how many ways in which that was just not possible.

So I'm going to start out with a quote of 10 bears from the Yampurika Kamanshees, who said,

My people have never first drawn a bow or fired a gun against the whites.

There have been trouble on the line between us,

and my young man have danced the war dance, but it was not begun by us. It was you who sent out

the first soldiers, and we who sent out the second. There were things which you have said to me,

which I do not like. You said that you wanted to put us on a reservation. To build us houses

and make us medicine lodges, I do not want them. I was born upon the prairie where the wind blew

free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there was no enclosure

and where everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls.

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