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The blacks want what the whites have, which is understandable. They want in. We Indians want out! That is the main difference.

— Mary Brave Bird Lakota Woman (1990)

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To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

Lakota Woman (1990)

We did freak out the honkies. We were feared throughout the Dakotas. I could never figure out why this should have been so. We were always the victims. We never maimed or killed. It was we who died or got crippled.

Lakota Woman (1990)

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