What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.

I think of some of my friends who have passed to the spirit world but are who here with me when I go to events and when I walk in my own community. My sisters, Ingred, my sister Marsha, and my sister Nielock. All cofounders of the Indigenous Women's Network with me. All long time women activists in the native community.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.

If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other people's countries and insuring that you follow it with military might, we think there's an alternative. Which would be renewable energy.