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Dolly Akers Quotes

1901–1986

Dolly Akers (March 23, 1901 – June 5, 1986) was an Assiniboine woman who was the first Native American woman elected to the Montana Legislature with 100% of the Indian vote and the first woman elected to the Tribal Executive Board of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

Random Dolly Akers quote

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I am a very necessary evil. I try to stay in the background, but every now and then I have to come out and kick some body in the shins.

Why should Indian people be forced to live under a law made some 80 years ago? That is the year in which the Indian Commissioner referred to Indians as ‘wild beasts!

The archaic protective rules and laws merely tend to hamper the Indian people from attaining their final goal of self-sufficiency, which is the goal of Congress for the Interior Department to foster.

There can be no real solution of the so-called ‘Indian problem’ unless the Interior Department embraces the principle of self-determination of Indian people by actual practice

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dolly Akers (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.