Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is read more

Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.

Where water is boss, the land must obbey

Where water is boss, the land must obbey

For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?

For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone.

My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone.

The map is not the territory.

The map is not the territory.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The read more

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.