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" The average human being in America is going through some sort of hard times - physical, emotional, psychological. Everybody's carrying a bit of bone days in them. "

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" There have been some positive things that have happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vigilant fight about protecting what resources we have in terms of land and rights. "

John Trudell

Resources

Rights

Fight

" I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere. "

" For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules. "

" The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity. "

" When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art. "

" You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded. "

" I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in. "

" I wasn't interested in having to live with a camera - I have a hard enough time getting along with myself. I don't need cameras around and all that action. "

" I find there is room in music to talk with music. It may expand ways people can participate with music. It doesn't sound hokey or like some kind of voice-over. "

" I'm basically a starving artist. "

" I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was - and I was never too calm to begin with. "

" Before Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had dream of soldiers falling from the sky. "

" Whatever their reasons, Hollywood, or the entertainment industry, is saying something about Indians. I don't see the rest of the media knocking down any doors to do that. "

" For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive. "

" In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good. "

" All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us. "

John Trudell

White

Real

" I consider the electric guitar to be like a drum with strings. It became the drum of the Baby Boom generation. And the drum has always been the center of the tribe, a new electronic tribe. "

" They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else. "

" White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters. "

" It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people. "

" From activist stage, I just spoke and said whatever I had to say. When the writing started, I would just read it. Then I had the interest into going into musical aspects. When that happened in '86, I liked the result of work we did in the studio. "

" When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music. "

" I'm not a musician making words to go with my music. "

John Trudell

Music

Words

" I knew I had to stop running. I had to be in a place. Los Angeles became that place. "

" All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do. "

" Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music. "

" Life is all about the spirit. "

" What I view life like is about energy. Everything is about energy - everything. We physically are little units of electrical energy, and we vibrate and project electromagnetic thought. "

" I wanted to take the power of thought and the word, along with the power of speaking and heart, and see if we could wire what was coming out of us as humans with electric instruments. "

" One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth. "