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I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

Mary Brave Bird

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

Mary Brave Bird

There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock.... There is not even a word for time in our language.

Mary Brave Bird

I could not help noticing the great role women played in Pueblo society. Women owned the houses and actually built them. Children often got their mother's last name, not their father's. Sons joined their mother's clans. It made me a little jealous.

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Maka ke wakan — the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam and flotsam of your great melting pot.

Mary Brave Bird

The blacks want what the whites have, which is understandable. They want in. We Indians want out! That is the main difference.

Mary Brave Bird

We did freak out the honkies. We were feared throughout the Dakotas. I could never figure out why this should have been so. We were always the victims. We never maimed or killed. It was we who died or got crippled.

Mary Brave Bird

Mary Brave Bird

Mary Brave Bird

Born: September 26, 1954

Died: February 14, 2013 (aged 58)

Bio: Mary Brave Bird, often known by her previous married name, Mary Crow Dog, is a Native American writer and activist.

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