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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. Dennis Banks Read Quote
Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth. Dennis Banks Read Quote
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. Dennis Banks Read Quote
