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Article: Taste of freedom changed everything.
- Article from:
- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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I was watching one of our big chiefs on TV a few weeks ago face off against a young Native "radical." The chief was smugly dismissive in defending his own mature, patient and co-operative approach to resolving our problems. He was using words like "negotiation," "accommodation," "reconciliation" and "compromise." It saddened me that the chief has forgotten what we are fighting for. I offer this to all the Indian bureaucrats who are satisfied.
I remember my first taste of freedom, like drawing a breath of fresh air after being shut up in a cell. It was when I read a radical book called Custer Died for Your Sins, by Vine Deloria, Jr.
I was 12 years old on ...