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

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“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.”

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