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There is this saying in Indian country that I think is true, which is that, a long time ago, when the white people came, the Indians had the land and the white people had the Bibles. And now the Indians have the Bibles and the white people have the land.

— Winona LaDuke Speech at UW Madison (2001)

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Today, on a worldwide scale, we remain in the same situation as one hundred years ago, only with less land and fewer people.

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If private property has found safe haven in the Fifth Amendment, where is common property equally protected?

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I am fully aware of how little an American education teaches you about Native people.

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