It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.
- Dennis Banks
Heed, Warnings, Also, Asked
It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were.
- Dennis Banks
Like, Solving, Complicit, Churches
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
- Dennis Banks
Away, Prized, Held, Tobacco
It feels like now I - you know, I'm almost 80 years old - I can sit back and retire, you know, and say, 'Look, our young people are taking over.' And that's great. That's what I'd like to see.
- Dennis Banks
Young, Feels, Almost, Retire
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
- Dennis Banks
Path, Destiny, Most, Lays
I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was - it was terrible.
- Dennis Banks
Week, Away, Running Away, Ran
In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.
- Dennis Banks
Through, Across, Covering, Ran
When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.
- Dennis Banks
Arrived, Japan, Shown, Overwhelming
It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.
- Dennis Banks
Will, Creator, Ways, Great Spirit
The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.
- Dennis Banks
Stars, Sun, Moon, Guide
Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.
- Dennis Banks
Words, Young, Many, Hearing
If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man.
- Dennis Banks
Man, White, Going, Drown
An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.
- Dennis Banks
Wounded, Native American, Resort
In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.
- Dennis Banks
Run, Distance, Angeles, Los Angeles
I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school, 300 miles away from our home.
- Dennis Banks
Father, Grandparents, Away, Boarding
That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?
- Dennis Banks
Doing, Want, Everybody, Everybody Else
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
- Dennis Banks
Beginning, Harmony, Lived, Native
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
- Dennis Banks
Here, Standing, Still, Native
In 1967 the last Unity Caravan was held.
- Dennis Banks
Unity, Last, Held, Caravan
When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
- Dennis Banks
Spiritual, Differently, Poverty
The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
- Dennis Banks
Running, Actual, Terms, Canadian
Every man should see the birth of his children.
- Dennis Banks
Children, See, His, Every Man
Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.
- Dennis Banks
People, Run, Come, Amazement
I'm on this road for the rest of my life.
- Dennis Banks
Life, Road, My Life, Rest
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