John Mohawk

thing that supports human life? Can we envision what we aredoing
here on this continent? Can we take some pride in what we have
done in the past?

They are not easy questions and I don’t expect people to
come up with answers to them in minutes. But I think they are the
questions that we need to have. And weneed tourge ourleadership
in the States and Canada to show us more backbone. They are not
showing enough backbone. And they are only talking tough to us.
If you go talk to them and say: "Hey, you're goofing up," then they
will turn around and slap you. But when they are talking to
whiteman with a suit on, all of the sudden, they are on their knees
and they are just little old Indians again. So I say we need to show
more backbone. We need to give our leadership more backbone.
And we know how to do that. So anyway, those are my thoughts
that I wanted to share with you. - Thank you

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